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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Berta Cáceres has received more than 496,950 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Berta Cáceres is the 486th most popular social activist (down from 443rd in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Honduras (down from 21st in 2019) and the most popular Honduran Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Berta Cáceres ranks 486 out of 538Before her are Josefa Francisco, Betty Ong, Karen Silkwood, Yun Hyon-seok, Mohamed Bouazizi, and Eoin O'Duffy. After her are Ella Baker, Flora Brovina, Akira Amano, Shivakumara Swami, Karina Pankievich, and Joseph Weydemeyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Berta Cáceres ranks 245Before her are Sylvie Testud, Jason Lewis, Leonid Slutsky, Finidi George, Moyoco Anno, and Srirasmi Suwadee. After her are Method Man, Stefano Accorsi, Emma Thomas, Marcelinho Carioca, Krista Allen, and Kevin Randleman. Among people deceased in 2016, Berta Cáceres ranks 415Before her are Axel Schandorff, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Paulo Emilio, Yngve Brodd, Joe Medicine Crow, and Solomon Marcus. After her are Florence Henderson, Fritz Weaver, Denton Cooley, Armando Tobar, Anton Pronk, and Sammy Lee.

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In Honduras

Among people born in Honduras, Berta Cáceres ranks 23 out of 71Before her are Juan Alberto Melgar Castro (1930), Policarpo Paz García (1932), Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés (1903), Marco Aurelio Soto (1846), Juan Manuel Gálvez (1887), and Carlos Roberto Flores (1950). After her are David Suazo (1979), Porfirio Armando Betancourt (1957), Carlos Pavón (1973), Saúl Martínez (1976), Amado Guevara (1976), and Noel Valladares (1977).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Honduras

Among social activists born in Honduras, Berta Cáceres ranks 1