Environmental Activism in Latin America

Historias Unknown

Latin America is one of the deadliest places to be a defender of rights; despite the high rates of activist killings and high rates of impunity, many risk their lives to fight for their rights.
In this episode, Carmen tells Cristina about the state of environmental activism in Latin America, as well as a few cases of environmental activists whose lives were taken for their activism.
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Music Credit: Hustlin (Instrumental) by Neffex
Petition mentioned: https://cispes.salsalabs.org/Alianzaarrests2024/index.html?eType=EmailConfirmation&eId=c8825587-5cf6-42e9-8655-21709b29ada8 Sources: https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/almost-2000-land-and-environmental-defenders-killed-between-2012-and-2022-protecting-planet/
Sources:
https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/who-killing-latin-americas-environmentalists https://globalearthrepairfoundation.org/homero-gomez-gonzalez/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/he-told-me-of-his-battle-to-save-the-monarch-butterfly-from-illegal-loggers-now-hes-gone-missing/2020/01/23/353a6a94-3dea-11ea-afe2-090eb37b60b1_story.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51304857 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homero_G%C3%B3mez_Gonz%C3%A1lez
The Guardian of the Monarchs documentary on Netflix https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/mexico-second-monarch-butterfly-sanctuary-worker-found-murdered
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/29/over-1700-environmental-activists-killed-in-past-decade-report
https://hrf.org/the-cost-of-defending-the-environment-in-latin-america/ https://www.foe.org.au/what_is_extractivism
https://latamjournalismreview.org/news/honduras-suspected-murderer-of-journalist-and-indigenous-leader-pablo-hernandez-captured/
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/honduras-indigenous-community-radio-director-pablo-isabel-hern%C3%A1ndez-murdered-un-ohchr-calls-for-murder-investigation-to-include-his-work-as-human-rights-defender/
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/honduras-lenca-environmental-defender-is-first-the-human-rights-defender-to-be-killed-in-2022-in-the-country/ https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/22/two-murders-in-a-week-honduran-activists-risk-death-to-defend-rights
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/melvin-geovany-mej%C3%ADa-rodr%C3%ADguez-broad-movement-for-dignity-and-justice-madj-movimiento-amplio-por-la-dignidad-y-la-justicia/
https://www.irtfcleveland.org/content/rrn/2022-02-24-000000 https://www.mp.hn/publicaciones/exhuman-cadaver-del-lider-indigena-en-el-progreso-yoro/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/07/venezuela-indigenous-leader-killed-amazon-defenders
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/01/venezuela-indigenous-leader-defended-amazon-shot-dead
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