Roberto David Castillo is a US-trained former Honduran army intelligence officer who was the president of an internationally financed hydroelectric company, has been found guilty over the assassination of Indigenous environmentalist Berta Cáceres in 2016. The court in Tegucigalpa rules that Cáceres was killed because of her role leading the campaign to stop the dam, and that Castillo co-authored the murder.
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