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Denouncing and Resisting

In the context of the international campaign against land grabbing, Real World Radio offers this special section including testimonies of the resistance and the effects of this global process that goes against the rights of communities and the sovereignty of the countries.

This section will have the support of Grain through www.farmlandgrab.org, which includes interviews and reports about the global push for buying or renting crop lands in foreign countries as a strategy to ensure the supply of basic food or just as a way to make money.

  • 10 October 2012 | | | |

    Let’s Call It By its Name

    More Repercussions of the Death Threat Against Rafael Alegria in Honduras

    The Minister of Security of Honduras, Pompeyo Bonilla, notified peasant leader Rafael Alegria that the government has information about a plan to plot against his life. President Porfirio Lobo confirmed the information provided by the Minister. Several social organizations of the country are extremely alert to defend the coordinator of Via Campesina Honduras. Read more

  • 9 October 2012 | | |

    The Country as a Military Base

    Guatemala: “We Cannot Allow Another Massacre”

    Valle del Polochic, Santa Cruz Barillas and Totonicapan are all Guatemalan villages that have been victims of repression and the subsequent death of Maya indigenous peasants by the government. This reminds the Guatemalans of the counter-insurgent war that left nearly 300,000 deaths. Read more

  • 9 October 2012 | | | |

    At Risk

    Interview with Honduran peasant leader Rafael Alegría: the government warned him about plans against his life

    “Last week, on Thursday precisely, I was notified by the Minister of Security and by the President himself about plans against my life. They told me I should take the necessary steps and precautions”, said Honduran peasant leader Rafael Alegría, coordinator of La Via Campesina International, to Real World Radio. Read more

  • 5 October 2012 | | |

    For food sovereignty

    New video of La Via Campesina: “Struggle against landgrabbing in Mali”

    “Family farmers are producing up to 80 per cent of Africa's food and 70 per cent of food from all over the world. Land grabbing is undermining their ability to feed themselves, their own country, the growing urban population and their right to food sovereignty”, says a new video produced by La Via Campesina called “Struggle against landgrabbing in Mali”. Watch video

  • 27 September 2012 | | | |

    It Is No Surprise: Honduras Hurts

    Lawyer Who Supported Peasants’ Fight for Land Killed in Honduras

    On September 22, 41 year-old Antonio Trejo Cabrera, the legal representative of the Authentic Peasant Movement of Aguan (MARCA), was shot to death near Tocontin International Airport in Honduras capital, Tegucigalpa. Read more

  • 20 September 2012 | |

    A Model of Injustice

    “Advance of Monoculture Plantations: More Power to Transnational Corporations”

    The Network Against Monoculture Tree Plantations (RECOMA) and Programa Uruguay Sustentable, which are organized around REDES-Friends of the Earth Uruguay, will hold an activity to expose monoculture tree plantations as part of the activities to mark the International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations on September 21. Read more

  • 18 September 2012 | |

    Taking Responsibility

    Organizations Criticize FAO Director General for Explicit Support to Agribusiness

    The Brazilian diplomacy has achieved a major victory by having Jose Graziano Da Silva appointed Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a move for which they relied on the support of international civil society organizations and the countries of the global South. Read more

  • 18 September 2012 | | |

    It Can’t Wait

    Ecuador: Preparations for the "Landless Peasants Congress"

    Twelve years after the crisis that resulted in the collapse of the Ecuadorian banking system and currency, large extensions of land in the Ecuadorian coast that were seized by the State, instead of being granted to peasants as established by law, are feeding the “land market” while the possibilities for peasant families to have their own land to produce food are increasingly slimmer. Read more

  • 10 September 2012 | | | | |

    Infinite Sadness

    Five Months After Curuguaty Massacre: Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Delicate State

    Nearly 50 days ago several peasants arrested during the Curuguaty massacre, who were imprisoned in Coronel Oviedo, in Caaguazu department, began a hunger strike. Two of them, Felipe Nery Urbina and Juan Carlos Tilleria, are in delicate health condition. It has been five months since the killing of 11 landless peasants and six police officers. Read more

  • 6 September 2012 | | | | |

    Painful

    New Mission of Solidarity with Paraguay After Coup

    Several Paraguayan social organizations inaugurated on Wednesday a “Human Rights and International Solidarity Mission” in Asuncion, Paraguay, that will aim to learned about the ‘Caraguaty massacre’ occurred on June 15, when 17 people died in police repression against peasants peasants. The participants of the mission will meet with the families of the victims. Read more

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