[Excerpt translation from Spanish to English provided by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]

"Rosalina: The Honduran Leader Who Continues the Legacy of Berta Cáceres", 29 October 2019

...Rosalina Domínguez opposes the construction of a hydroelectric dam in Lenca indigenous territory.  This has brought her threats, invasion and destruction of her maize crops, her only form of livelihood.  Those who sold land to Desarrollos Energéticos SA -DESA [the energy company]- acquired it in a dubious manner, according to the Lencas – and now they want to return and displace Rosalina and her community. The Honduran justice system declared DESA responsible for the assassination of environmental leader Berta Cáceres… At the end of April, after a couple of months without a salary, the security guards of Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. were responsible for the assassination of environmental leader Berta Cáceres. (DESA), abandoned the gates of the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project in Honduras.  [Later], a group of residents entered to keep the company's remains in the indigenous community of El Barrial, north of Intibucá, near the waters of the Gualcarque River... After Berta's death, Rosalina Domínguez, vice-president of the Lenca Indigenous Council, assumed the opposition to the hydroelectric dam and continued with the legacy of the Honduran leader, decisions that have cost her threats and intimidation....[She] assures that those who went in to loot DESA's facilities are the same twenty families who years ago sold some strips of land to the company to build the Agua Zarca dam, a project that at the time had the support of the World Bank and the Chinese construction company Sinohydro...