"I believe that Berta Cáceres becomes a reference of rebellion"

Abstract

Laura Zúñiga Cáceres is one of the daughters of Berta Cáceres, the Honduran indigenous leader, a member of the Lenca people, who was murdered on March 3. Laura is a 25-year-old girl who currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina and considers herself a political exile because Honduras "expels its population". For the daughter of the indigenous leader, the murder of her mother is not only that of a woman, but that a "collective Berta Cáceres" is murdered, because her death sent a message of terror to social movements. However, Berta has awakened awareness in the Central American country and has become "a sign of love for the people" so well, that Berta, according to Laura, is on a par with the cacique Lempira, also Lenca and who is considered as the character par excellence that symbolized the indigenous resistance in Honduras against Spanish rule.