• 30 November 2012 | Interviews | Free Honduras | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Land grabbing

  

  A Critical Construction

  Rafael Alegría: CLOC is the Main Social Movement in Latin America

  The leader of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina) Rafael Alegria, who has received death threats by businessmen and rural estate owners, talked about the 20 years of the organization. Read more

• 1 November 2012 | News | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina

  

  Under Construction

  Alliance for Food Sovereignty at the Assembly of CLOC-VC

  One of the efforts of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations-Via Campesina has been the promotion and mobilization around food sovereignty, which goes back to 1996. Read more

• 1 November 2012 | Interviews | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina | Land grabbing

  

  Peasants of the World, Unite

  Peasants Face Challenge of Speculation with Agriculture and Nature

  The peasants are facing the big challenge of understanding the advance of capital on agriculture and natural goods and of generating an alternative project that enables to overcome this agribusiness model in the countryside, warned the leader of the Rural Landless' Peasant Movement of Brazil, Roberto Baggio. Read more

• 31 October 2012 | Testimonies | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  Tales of the Dispossessed

  Testimony of Juana Bats Puaj and Daniel Pascual (Via Campesina Guatemala) during the act of solidarity of CLOC-Via Campesina

  The recent history of Guatemala doest not cease to surprise. Despite the change in the governments and successive presidents, the violence against the peasant and indigenous communities is scary. Daniel Pascual, leader of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina) explained this during his speech as part of the act of solidarity held in “El Cipres”. Read more

• 29 October 2012 | Chronicles | Free Honduras | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina | Social activists at risk

  

  Ethical Imperative

  Interview with Father Miguel D’Escotto at the Action of Solidarity with the Peoples of Honduras and Guatemala

  Priest Miguel D'Escotto is the former chair of the United Nations General Assembly and foreign minister under the Sandinista administration of Nicaragua in the 1980s. He called for urgent solidarity with the peoples of Honduras and Guatemala, as part of an action of solidarity organized by the Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina). Read more

• 26 October 2012 | News | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina

  

  “Agro-Poison” Is Not a Need, It’s an Imposition

  Interview with Cleber Folgado, Coordinator of the Permanent Campaign Against Agrotoxics of CLOC-Via Campesina

  The use of agrotoxics produced by transnational corporations has reached alarming levels in Latin America. They represent the key element of the hegemonic agribusiness model in most of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Read more

• 26 October 2012 | News | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina | Land grabbing

  

  Strengthening the Struggle

  Continental Assembly of CLOC-Via Campesina Passed its Charter

  The Continental Assembly of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina) discussed and approved its Charter as a necessary step towards strengthening the organization. The Assembly also approved new members. Read more

• 22 October 2012 | Interviews | Free Honduras | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina | Social activists at risk

  

  Radical Solidarity

  Peasants of Honduras at the Assembly of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations-Via Campesina

  Honduras is one of Central America's most problematic places in terms of conflicts over land, even more so after the coup d'état that ousted its constitutional President, Jose Manuel Zelaya, in 2009. Read more

• 22 October 2012 | Interviews | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  Real Justice, Not Just Words

  The Totonicapan Massacre in Guatemala at the Assembly of CLOC-Via Campesina

  The areas for discussion at the 1st Continental Assembly of CLOC-Via Campesina, celebrated this week in Nicaragua's capital Managua, have been a space to expose and condemn the repression suffered by the resisting Latin American peoples. Read more

• 22 October 2012 | Interviews | 1st Continental Assembly CLOC – Via Campesina

  

  A Concept That Does Not Get Old

  Food Sovereignty: Interview with María del Carmen Barroso (Association of Small-Scale Farmers of Cuba)

  Twenty years after the creation of the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Via Campesina), the situation in the continent has changed radically since the 90s, a time dominated by neoliberal governments. Nowadays those neoliberal regimes were defeated in almost every country. Read more

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