Author: Maria Ines Taracena

Maria Inés is a journalist from Guatemala. She lived in Tucson, Arizona for more than a decade, where she reported on immigration, the U.S.-Mexico border, the Mexican state of Sonora and education. She also writes about Central American issues and the resistance of LGBTQ+ people in the region. Maria Inés is currently the news production fellow at Democracy Now! in New York City.
Nina Lakhani’s "Who Killed Berta Cáceres?"

¡Berta Vive!: The Life and Death of Berta Cáceres, Fearless Indigenous Leader

Nina Lakhani’s “Who Killed Berta Cáceres?” digs into the thick layers of the corrupt, colonial, imperialist, racist and misogynistic systems that contributed to the death of this beloved Honduran Lenca leader, cofounder of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras and the 2015 winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize.