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The Most Dangerous Place on Earth to Be an Environmentalist
Just before two o’clock in the morning on Thursday, March 3, 2016, the phone rang at Tomás Gómez Membreño’s home in La Esperanza, 70 miles west of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. Membreño, a leader of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), the country’s most prominent environmental-activist group, groped for the receiver. The organization’s attorney was on the line, and the news he had was grim.
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Fuck.
Tegucigalpa is the most dangerous place to do anything, unless you're a high-ranking member of a drug cartel, a rich businessman, or a politician.
Having said that, reading this you realize why things like the Earth Liberation Front exist.