Colombia: Police repress farmers

Colombia: Police repress farmers

Members of the Colombian security forces suppressed the peaceful demonstrations of coffee farmers, despite the fact that they have the permissions of the local governorates.

The Colombian coffee growers, despite the strong repression, remain national strike demanding President Juan Manuel Santos who treats them and pay attention to their just demands.

Peru: Unstoppable land grant

Conga: resistance continues

The Peruvian territory by more than 25% is now to large mining companies, and there is when you are finished that process that is generating too many conflicts.

Today, through six specific cases and of great importance, the business community, which has in the current Peruvian rulers their best allies who granted large tracts of land without the consent of indigenous peoples can be demonstrated.

 

Paraguay: Resistance to genetically modified organisms grow

Fighting against the Empire of transnational corporations.

Without a doubt, after the parliamentary coup against President Fernando Lugo, the coup leader Federico Franco, supported by the transnational American Monsanto (who monopolizes 90% of the production of transgenic seeds in the world) strengthened its power turning Paraguay into the ideal country for the massive introduction of GMOs. 

 

Ecuador: Congress of farmers

Constant struggle for the land that belongs to them.

About 2,000 delegates from the coast, Sierra and Ecuadorian Amazon will meet 15 and November 16 into Guayas (Ecuador) in the Congress of the Landless  where will discuss the right of peasants that have an effective access to land, to food and food sovereignty, also will analyze the new agrarian legislation.
 

Honduras: Paramilitaries against Garifunas

Not only removed from their land, also want to kill them.

A serious warning has been launched against the paramilitary siege that mobilized in motorcycles and 4 x 4 vehicles, with weapons of war, and that could be a massacre to the peaceful inhabitants Garifuna (mixed ethnic group descendant of Africans, Carib and Arawak) that resist against dispossession of their ancestral territories.