Environmental activist Gustavo Castro Soto has been freed by Honduran authorities and has returned to Mexico—a month after he survived an assassination attempt that left fellow Honduran activist Berta Cáceres dead. Early in the morning of March 3, armed gunmen entered Cáceres’ home, killing her and shooting Castro Soto twice. He was then detained by Honduran authorities for nearly a month without cause. Many feared his life was in danger. On Friday, he was allowed to return to Mexico. This is Castro Soto speaking with Radio Progreso about the indigenous land struggles in Honduras, after he returned home to San Cristóbal de las Casas.
Gustavo Castro Soto: “What we are confronting are forces very powerful, obscure forces, filled with ambition, and these forces are what the movements are fighting. And I think for this, as well, COPINH has been an example of the power of this struggle and the unbreakable spirit of the comrades of the indigenous communities, who have marched, who have walked, until exhaustion, all to demand respect to their territories and to demand their land be free of these mega projects that are being imposed and that are evicting people from their lands.”