Fatal fight for justice
Ever since Berta Cáceres was a young girl, she’d had a strong sense of right and wrong. Growing up in the 1980s in the Central American country of Honduras, she had watched her mum, a midwife, take in refugees pouring into the country as a result of violence in neighbouring El Salvador.
Her mother’s caring approach rubbed off on Berta and, at university, she became a student activist.
And there was plenty to campaign about.
