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Thousands Attend Funeral of Slain Honduran Indian Activist

Thousands of mourners turned out for the funeral Saturday for slain Honduran indigenous leader Berta Caceres, who fought to stop a potentially destructive dam. Her supporters chanted "Berta lives!" and called for justice as her coffin was carried from her mother's home to the church in the town of La Esperanza, northwest of Tegucigalpa. Caceres, a Lenca Indian activist who won the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize, was killed by gunmen in her home Thursday in what...


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