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Honduras: Activist Who Witnessed Assassination of Berta Cáceres Barred from Returning to Mexico

HeadlineMar 08, 2016

In Honduras, activists say the well-known environmental campaigner Gustavo Castro Soto, coordinator of Friends of the Earth Mexico, has been detained and denied permission to return to his native Mexico. Castro witnessed the fatal shooting of environmental leader Berta Cáceres in Honduras last Thursday, sustaining two bullet wounds. We’ll have more on his case later in the broadcast.

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