Honduran campesinos re-appropriate agricultural land

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17762439


Honduras farm workers stage mass land occupations

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54730000/jpg/_54730100_soldiershonduras.jpg Police and troops have been struggling to control land conflict in Honduras
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Thousands of rural workers in Honduras have occupied land as part of a dispute with large landowners and the government.
The coordinated invasions took place in several locations across the country, activists and officials say.
Farmers groups say the areas taken over are public lands where poor farmers have the right to grow food under Honduran law.
The government said the seizures were illegal and targeted private holdings.
The director of the National Agrarian Institute, Pedro Ham, said the coordinated occupations were politically motivated and aimed at destabilising the government of President Porfirio Lobo.
Violent disputes over farmland are common in Honduras, with dozens of rural workers killed in recent years.
Organisations representing rural workers say successive governments have failed to fulfil promises to distribute farmland using agrarian reform legislation.
They also accuse the authorities of acting in the interests of large landowners.


I wish them the best of luck ...

[cyu]

More from http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/19-4

In Honduras, thousands of landless farmworkers occupied 30,000 acres of land across the country

"Hours after 1,500 farmers seized land belonging to Compañía Azucarera Hondureña, in northern Cortés, police had already begun evictions. Other land seizures occurred simultaneously in Yoro, Santa Bárbara, Intibucá, Comayagua, Francisco Morazán, El Paraíso, and Choluteca."

53 percent of Hondurans live in the countryside and 72 percent of rural homes are below the poverty line.

Small farmers' demand is simple: they need access to land to grow food for their communities.

When huge monoculture plantations for export are developed. This only leads to increased hunger and environmental devastation

[cyu]

Just a side note: This is how I feel whenever I'm reading news reports from organizations that try to stake a "middle" ground between plutocrats and the vast majority of the population

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