00:00And social organizations gathered in front of the Honduran embassy in Madrid, Spain,
00:04to demand justice for indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, who was murdered 10 years ago.
00:09Under the slogan, Justice for Berta, Justice for the World,
00:14international organizations demanded the truth and political accountability
00:18in a case that has become a global symbol of the defense of the territory
00:22and the rights of indigenous peoples against corporate interests.
00:25During her life as a social activist, Cáceres led a struggle against extractive projects
00:31that threatened the territories of the indigenous people
00:34and for the defense of the Hualcarque River against the Aguasarca hydroelectric project.
00:41The activist was shot and killed at her home on March 2, 2016,
00:46after years of threats in a case that revealed the involvement of business elites.
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