https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw Summary of the life, struggle and trajectory of some Honduran national heroes en-us 2020-05-08 20:29:00 UTC 2025-10-20 09:01:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/572104436/03a7316b790097991749c6f53b46045a/heroe.jpg maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560726383 Lempira was a war captain of the Lencas who fought against the Spanish during the 1930s, during the Spanish conquest.]]> 2020-05-08 20:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560726383 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560732501 Lempira is considered the initiator of the struggles for freedom and the defense of Honduras, capable of fighting to the death against domination and oppression.]]> 2020-05-08 21:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560732501 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560737073 Lempira was a war captain of the Lencas who fought against the Spanish during the 1530s, during the Spanish conquest, he was commissioned by Entepica to organize resistance to the penetration of Spanish troops in 1537, based on the Cerro de Cerquin]]> 2020-05-08 21:03:59 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560737073 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560740647 His fight and that of the aborigines and tribes against the Spanish was unsuccessful since with the death of Lempira the Spanish territorial domain was consolidated.]]> 2020-05-08 21:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560740647 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560743841 In his honor, the Lempira is the national currency of Honduras, and he also carries one of the country's departments in the same region where he was born, grew up, and died.]]> 2020-05-08 21:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560743841 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560748073 José Francisco Morazán Quezada was a Honduran military man and politician who ruled the Federal Republic of Central America during the turbulent period from 1830 to 1839.]]> 2020-05-08 21:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560748073 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560750942 During this period, Morazán fought against the particularism of the provinces, the ambitions of the military, the opposition of the Church, international pressure, financial bankruptcy, criticism of nepotism and corruption of the ruling team.]]> 2020-05-08 21:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560750942 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560759946 In 1837, Rafael Carrera staged a rebellion that lost power in the State of Guatemala and its success was similar in the rest of the federation. At the end of Morazán's second term (1838) the decomposition of the political system was such that elections for the presidency were not held and it can be said that the Central American union was dissolved.]]> 2020-05-08 21:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560759946 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560761757 Morazán was elected president of El Salvador (1838-40) and launched from there a last attempt against Guatemala in 1840; he was defeated and went into exile in Peru. In 1842 he landed in Costa Rica, where he briefly took power; Before he could start rebuilding Central American unity, he was captured and shot.]]> 2020-05-08 21:24:26 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560761757 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560763026 Berta Cáceres was an indigenous Lenca woman and one of the best-known human rights defenders in Honduras, who, for 20 years, had defended the territory and the rights of the Lenca people.]]> 2020-05-08 21:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560763026 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560766294 Berta confronted and often defeated illegal loggers, plantation owners, multinational corporations, and dam projects that cut off food and water supplies to indigenous communities.]]> 2020-05-08 21:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560766294 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560770152 Berta co-founded the Civic Council of Popular Indigenous Organizations (COPINH), which organized campaigns against megaprojects that brought violations of the rights of indigenous people in the country.]]> 2020-05-08 21:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560770152 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560775252 The human rights defender was a finalist for the 2014 Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk, and in 2015 she received the Goldman Environmentalist Award.]]> 2020-05-08 21:37:00 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560775252 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560779786 Desarrollos Energéticos SA (DESA), the Honduran company that was building the Agua Zarca dam, to which Berta and COPINH, his organization, strongly opposed. The defender successfully campaigned against the hydroelectric project, which had been started without adequate consultation or consent from the local indigenous communities since the Lencas considered that the dams would affect their access to water, food and materials for medicine, reason why its traditional way of life would be put in danger.]]> 2020-05-08 21:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560779786 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560783126 Berta Cáceres had spent years denouncing harassment, serious death threats and violence against her and her family, and against members of COPINH.]]> 2020-05-08 21:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560783126 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560785966 Around midnight between the 2nd and 3rd of March 2016, Berta Cáceres was at her home in La Esperanza, where the Mexican environmentalist Gustavo Castro Soto, a member of Amigos de la Tierra, was also; when the assassins forced the doors. 2627 Castro listened when Berta asked: "Who is there?", and a hit man shot and killed her and wounded Castro, who pretended to be dead to save her life.]]> 2020-05-08 21:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560785966 maerazo https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560790110 The court stated that the murder was ordered by executives of the DESA company due to the delays and economic losses caused by the protests by environmental groups, and they hired a group of hitmen to carry out the crime.]]> 2020-05-08 21:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/maerazo/i55d89jlnn5l3gnw/wish/560790110