The United States is still fiscally supporting a military regime that has slaughtered activists, overthrown government officials, exploited the land by trans-international corporations and damaged water and food sources. After mass slaughtering and completely damaging and seizing the Lenca's health, freedom and land, Congress now demands that all aid to Honduras must be pulled. The military and security units fiscally supported by the United States in Honduras following the kidnapping of the President Zelaya are now being challenged for assisting in the death of environmental activist Berta Caceres.
In 2013, Cáceres told Al Jazeera:
"The army has an assassination list of 18 wanted human rights fighters with my name at the top. I want to live, there are many things I still want to do in this world but I have never once considered giving up fighting for our territory, for a life with dignity, because our fight is legitimate. I take lots of care but in the end, in this country where there is total impunity I am vulnerable... When they want to kill me, they will do it."
TVs, radios and websites stop, frozen in a dimly-lit abyss of injustice. Human rights, a radical concept to ignorant monsters. Going against the majority of the population, masked military kidnapped the president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, Since then, Honduras has become one of the most violent countries on the planet, as American funding helps slaughter the people and activists while completely seizing their land. Not only were the rights of elected official Zelaya stripped away, but the life of thousands of activists in the Honduras have been taken, including recently assassinated Berta Carceres.
"Well, that’s just one horror. I mean, hundreds of peasant activists and indigenous activists have been killed. Scores of gay rights activists have been killed. I mean, it’s just—it’s just a nightmare in Honduras. I mean, there’s ways in which the coup regime basically threw up Honduras to transnational pillage. And Berta Cáceres, in that interview, says what was installed after the coup was something like a permanent counterinsurgency on behalf of transnational capital. And that was—that wouldn’t have been possible if it were not for Hillary Clinton’s normalization of that election, or legitimacy." (Greg Grandin, professor).
After recently calling out Hillary Clinton for her blatant support of the vast amount of human rights violations occurring within Honduras' political system, Caceres was found to be shot in her home by armed, masked militants on the morning of March 3, 2016.
"According to the organization Global Witness, Honduras is the deadliest and most dangerous country in the world for environmental activists—109 of whom have been killed between 2010 and 2015" (Huffington Post).
Berta Caceres died for justice and the pursuance of protected human rights. The United States, one of the most notorious countries for violence and physical manipulation, has and will continue to press their avaricious agenda while demanding for a corrupt universal political system like a deranged, crack-induced, soulless 5-year old, unless human and environmental rights are protected world wide.