A wave of attacks against environmental defenders has left Indigenous and rural communities across Mexico and Central America reeling amid a lack of government protection and widespread impunity.
Ten years after the murder of community leaders Zé Claudio da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo, attorney Claudelice dos Santos formally created an institute named after her brother and sister-in-law to support families at risk because of their social-environmental activism in Amazonia.
Roberto David Castillo, the former head of the company that was building a hydroelectric dam on Indigenous land in Honduras, was found guilty of being a co-conspirator in the murder of Berta Caceres.
