Guatemala

Narco cash laundered into large-scale agriculture in Central America
- IDM
- 30 May 2017
A new study comparing forest loss and cocaine busts supports the theory that drug money is being laundered into large-scale agriculture in Central America.
Land grabs are partly to blame for skyrocketing violence in Central America
- Huffington Post
- 16 January 2017
Global firms and local elites are taking land from farmers, which pushes them to cities, where jobs are few.
How TIAA Funds Environmental Disaster in Latin America
- Nacla
- 06 January 2017
Pension fund giant TIAA is investing its clients’ funds in farmland and agribusinesses tied to environmental and human rights abuses in Latin America.
Guatemala: A state of land grabs
- Amandala
- 05 Mar 2016
Land grabs for megaprojects such as mining, hydroelectric dams, monoculture agribusiness and petroleum extraction continue and even intensify.
Missing part of the picture in challenging Africa’s “land grab” counter-narrative
- Los Despojados
- 08 February 2016
In agricultural frontier zones, large landowners and corporations often pressure peasants to obtain legal title to the lands they farm only to buy the lands on the cheap as soon as the title is issued.
Palm oil’s corporate deception: Green-washing a dirty industry
- Telesur
- 01 December 2015
The expansion of oil palm plantations around the tropical world presents a fierce assault on the climate in the name of corporate profits.
“La tierra es de las mujeres”
- 20 minutos
- 06 November 2015
En un país con muy poca tierra cultivable como Mauritania, empresas extranjeras compran al gobierno grandes extensiones de tierra (lo que se conoce como acaparamiento de tierra) provocando la ruina de pueblos enteros y su desplazamiento
Guatemala: Monocultivos de muerte
- Radio Mundo Real
- 05 October 2015
Defensor ambiental guatemalteco es asesinado y la vida de otros/as está bajo riesgo
Guatemalan activist murdered after court suspends palm oil company operations
- Mongabay
- 02 October 2015
A day after a judge suspended operations of a palm-oil company suspected of causing a massive fish die-off on a Guatemalan river, three community leaders were abducted by company workers and an outspoken local teacher was murdered.
Une filiale de la Banque Mondiale épinglée
- Les Echos
- 03 April 2015
Au Cambodge, au Honduras, en Inde et au Guatemala, des ONG relatent des faits de répression, d'accaparements de terres et de violences ayant entraîné des morts suite aux prêts de la Société financière internationale.
«No tenemos miedo» Defensores del derecho a la tierra: atacados por enfrentarse al desarrollo desenfrenado
- CEPPAS
- 10 February 2015
Defensa de la tierra, verdad incómoda para los grupos de poder. Las y los defensores del derecho a la tierra nunca se han visto tan afectados por la represión como en 2014.
Manglares en extinción
- Radio Mundo Real
- 07 November 2014
Caña y palma ponen en riesgo la desprotegida biodiversidad y soberanía alimentaria de Guatemala