Berta Zúñiga

Bertha Zuniga Cáceres (born 24 September 1990) is a Honduran social activist of Lenca descent. She is the daughter of social leader Berta Cáceres, murdered in 2016. Soon after assuming her mother's role of general coordinator of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) in May 2017, Zúñiga Cáceres survived an attempt on her own life.

Early life Zuniga Cáceres was born in 1990, the daughter of Berta Cáceres and Salvador Zúñiga. She is second of four children, with two sisters and a brother. Her parents separated before she was ten.

When Zuniga Cáceres was three, her mother founded COPINH, with her father as one of the original members. Like her siblings, after a brief period in regular schools, she attended popular education schools, where she received anti-capitalist and anti-patriarchal training. Initially, the Honduran government pursued the matter as a crime of passion or as internal political struggles within COPINH, denying a connection to Berta Cáceres's political activism. By March 2018, nine men, including retired and active Honduran military and two of the developers of the Agua Zarca project, had been accused of complicity in the crime, with one declaring that the murder had been a paid assassination. In February 2018, Zuniga Cáceres expressed her belief that the government involved in the investigation are focusing on lower level conspirators to avoid acknowledging possible involvement of higher placed officials. In Honduras, since the 2009 coup, at least 124 activists for environmental and land protection have been killed.

General Coordinator of COPINH After Berta Cáceres's murder, Zuniga Cáceres left her studies in Mexico City to take up the leadership of COPINH, and in May 2017 she was elected general coordinator of that body, the same position her mother had occupied.