[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 4, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H1496]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       RECOGNIZING BERTA CACERES

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, today indigenous environmental 
activist, Berta Caceres, would have been 49 years old, but on March 2, 
2016, she was viciously murdered in her own home by a coordinated 
effort between greedy corporate and government thugs.
  She died defending the land of the Lenca indigenous people. Berta, 
along with countless other Honduran activists, was the victim of a 
government wracked with corruption and impunity. Drug traffickers have 
littered the highest ranks of Honduras' Government, and its military 
remains weaponized against its own people, all of whom are targets of 
victimization by this government, which is aided by U.S. security 
assistance. We turn away our brothers and sisters at the border, but we 
abet the very crimes they are fleeing.
  Berta Caceras' legacy should serve to remind us of this, and enough 
is enough.

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