{"id":1474,"date":"2020-07-30T08:33:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T07:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersrebel.com\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2020-07-30T09:45:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T08:45:31","slug":"writers-rebel-podcast-nina-lahkani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/writers-rebel-podcast-nina-lahkani\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen: Nina Lahkani asks &#8216;Who Killed Berta C\u00e1ceres?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 504px; height: 208px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podomatic.com\/embed\/html5\/episode\/9802483?style=normal&amp;autoplay=false\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\nEver wonder who the pink boat in Oxford Circus was named after?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Berta C\u00e1ceres was a Lenca from Honduras who won the prestigious Goldman Prize. She was subsequently murdered in her own home for resisting work on the Agua Zarca dam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Writers Rebel podcast focuses on indigenous environmental defenders this episode, and kicks off with an interview with <em>Guardian<\/em> journalist Nina Lahkani who has just published <em>Who Killed Berta C\u00e1ceres?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team then talk to activists from Colombia about their present hazardous work in which the killing of defenders has become normalised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>NINA LAKHANI<\/strong> has reported from over a dozen countries including six and a half years freelancing in Central America and Mexico where she focussed on forced migration, the consequences of the war on drugs, gender violence, environmental defenders and the battle for natural resources. Before journalism she was a mental health nurse. She is currently the Environmental Justice correspondent for the <em>Guardian<\/em> US, based in New York.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1489\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writersrebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6422.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"Cover image of Who Killed Berta Caceres?\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writersrebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6422-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writersrebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6422-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writersrebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6422-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writersrebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6422-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writersrebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6422-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writersrebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6422-scaled.jpg?w=1280 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff &nbsp; Ever wonder who the pink boat in Oxford Circus was named after? Berta C\u00e1ceres was a Lenca from Honduras who won the prestigious Goldman Prize. She was subsequently murdered in her own home for resisting work on the Agua Zarca dam. The Writers Rebel podcast focuses on indigenous environmental defenders this episode, and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/writers-rebel-podcast-nina-lahkani\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Listen: Nina Lahkani asks &#8216;Who Killed Berta C\u00e1ceres?&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[158,164,159,162,163,161,165,160],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Listen: Nina Lahkani asks &#039;Who Killed Berta C\u00e1ceres?&#039; - Writers Rebel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/writers-rebel-podcast-nina-lahkani\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Listen: Nina Lahkani asks &#039;Who Killed Berta C\u00e1ceres?&#039; - Writers Rebel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\ufeff\ufeff &nbsp; Ever wonder who the pink boat in Oxford Circus was named after? 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