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Member of MOCASE Killed

Cristian Ferreyra, a 23-year-old member of the Santiago del Estero Peasant Movement (MOCASE), was shot and killed yesterday in his house in the San Antonio community of the northern province of...

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Honduras: Land Eviction Leaves Three Dead

Three died and 30 were arrested after 600 peasant families clashed with police and security forces in Bajo Aguán, Honduras, this weekend. The families had moved onto the land to occupy it on Saturday...

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Colombia: Three Detained in Connection with Peasant Massacre

The Colombian Ministry of Defence announced yesterday that they have detained three suspects in connection with the massacre that killed ten farm workers last Wednesday in Santa Rosa de Osos, in the...

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Colombia: Workers Block Roads as Agricultural Strike Intensifies

Agricultural Strike, Colombia (Photo: Agencia Púlsar) At least 42 roads in 13 departments in Colombia are completely closed down by worker blockades on the fifth day of an indefinite agricultural...

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Latin America News Roundup: 6th February 2014

Soy fields in Paraguay (photo: Patty P) Paraguayan Peasants Demand Investigation into Murder: Paraguay’s National Peasant Federation (FNC) has called for an investigation into Sunday’s killing of Nery...

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Latin America News Roundup: 13th March 2014

El Salvador’s president elect, Salvador Sánchez-Cerén (photo courtesy of Wikipedia). El Salvador: Sánchez Cerén Wins Elections: El Salvador’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has confirmed that FMLN’s...

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Latin America News Roundup: 10th April 2014

Policemen wounded in Curuguaty are taken to Asunción (Agencia IPP Paraguay/Télam/cl) Paraguay: Home Arrest Denied for Hunger-Striking Campesinos: A Paraguayan court has rejected the request of home...

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Honduras: Violent Eviction of Campesinos

Bajo Aguán human rights meeting, where families show images of those killed in the conflict (photo courtesy of Honduras Delegation) Fifteen people have been detained as a result of a massive police...

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Dozens Injured and Detained after Violent Repression in Chaco

Dozens of police were involved in the crackdown on the protest (photo: Germán Pomar/Télam/ddc) Over 30 people have been injured and a dozen detained after a march was violently repressed yesterday in...

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Paraguay: Thousands of Campesinos March to Demand President Resign

The march started last week in many parts of the country (photo courtesy of Partido Paraguay Pyahurã) Thousands of campesinos marched to the government palace in Asunción yesterday, to demand the...

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The Indy Eye: International Day of Campesino Struggle

More than 3,000 people from campesino, indigenous, afro-descendent, and landless movements from all around Latin America marched in Buenos Aires on Friday to mark the end of the 6th CLOC-Vía Campesina...

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Paraguay: Peasant Farmers Convicted over Curuguaty Massacre

A court in Paraguay has sentenced 11 peasant farmers to prison for their role in the so-called 'Curuguaty Massacre', in which six policemen and 11 farmers were killed during an eviction.

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