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Too high a price for courage: The Honduran government should stop repressing indigenous leaders like Berta Cáceres

by Beverly Bell

Berta Cáceres, an internationally respected leader of the movement for indigenous rights, is now living as a fugitive. The Honduran government ordered this soft-spoken dynamo imprisoned on September 20.

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