DESA has filed a lawsuit for defamation against the NGO Centro de Estudios de la Mujer (CEM-H). Suyapa Martínez, representative of the NGO, has publicly alleged that DESA was involved in the murder of Berta Cáceres.

The B&HRRC invited DESA to respond; a summary of the response in English is available here; the complete response is available only in Spanish here.