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HotSpots H2O: Indigenous Environmental Activist Shot and Killed in Honduras A sign depicts the slain environmental activist Berta Cáceres during a protest on December 4, 2017, in Manhattan. Photo © Joe Catron The environmental activist Carlos Cerros was killed in Honduras, in the town of Nueva Granada, at the end of March, local media reported.  Cerros, a member of the Indigenous Lenca people of Central America, was shot dead on the street in front of his children. The 41-year-old was the president of United Communities, a local group protesting against the El Tornillito hydroelectric dam project on the Ulúa River in western Honduras. His death is the latest in a string of attacks in recent years against environmentalists in Latin America. 

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