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Berta Cáceres

1971 - 2016

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Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbeɾtajsaˈβel ˈkaseɾes ˈfloɾes]; 4 March 1971 – 3 March 2016) was a Honduran (Lenca) environmental activist, indigenous leader, co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). She won the Goldman Environmental Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for environmental activism, in 2015 for "a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam" at the Río Gualcarque. In 2016 she was assassinated in her home by armed intruders, after many years of threats against her life. A former soldier, with the US-trained special forces units of the Honduran military, asserted that Cáceres' name was on their hitlist for months prior to her assassination. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Berta Cáceres is the 596th most popular social activist (down from 590th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Honduras (down from 27th in 2019) and the most popular Honduran Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Berta Cáceres ranks 596 out of 840. Before her are Albert Parsons, Madan Lal Dhingra, Felix Nartey, Ralph Abernathy, Veerappan, and Dieudonné M'bala M'bala. After her are Denis Goldberg, Akira Amano, Mamie Till, Luisa Cuesta, Hu Jia, and Salih Mahmoud Osman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Berta Cáceres ranks 289. Before her are Amy Poehler, Justin Lin, Shinya Hagihara, Keegan-Michael Key, Regina King, and C. S. Lee. After her are Julianne Nicholson, Attila Csihar, Richard Ashcroft, Carlos Velasco Carballo, Niclas Alexandersson, and Sergei Bodrov Jr.. Among people deceased in 2016, Berta Cáceres ranks 479. Before her are Douglas Slocombe, Kevin Randleman, Mariano Mores, Roger Dumas, Bertil Roos, and Tammy Grimes. After her are William Christopher, František Jakubec, Terence Bayler, Ali Beratlıgil, Qandeel Baloch, and Tommy Kono.

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In Honduras

Among people born in Honduras, Berta Cáceres ranks 28 out of 84. Before her are Policarpo Paz García (1932), Julio Lozano Díaz (1885), David Suazo (1979), Juan Alberto Melgar Castro (1930), Saúl Martínez (1976), and Rafael López Gutiérrez (1854). After her are Chelato Uclés (1940), José Cardona (1939), Carlos Pavón (1973), Celso Güity (1958), Jaime Villegas (1950), and Porfirio Armando Betancourt (1957).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Honduras

Among social activists born in Honduras, Berta Cáceres ranks 1. 

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