Havana, 30 June 2019 Revolution is a sense of the historical moment, it is to change everything that must be changed, it is full equality and freedom, it is to be treated and to treat others as human beings, it is to emancipate ourselves and with our own efforts, it is to challenge powerful dominant…
Category: FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
Venezuela: Communiqué of the National Productive Alliance – Opposition Destroying Milk to Create Scarcity
For some days now, opposition sectors have been calling on meat and milk producers, mainly in the state of Barinas, not to take their production to Caracas and the center of the country as a kind of strike, with the clear objective of generating scarcity and, with it, sharpening the complex economic reality that people…
The Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC) at 25 Years
Osvaldo León In February 1994, in Lima (Perú), under the slogan “United in Defense of Life, Land, Work and Production” the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC) was officially established. Eighty-four (84) organizations from 18 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean came together for this historic moment. This became possible as a result…
Agrarian Mafias vs. the Campesino People: Revolutionary Institutions Have the Say
“Tierras, mujeres y hombres libres” (Lands, free women and men) is named after the Campesino Council in which the families that inhabit the Montecarlo estate are organized. Nearly 200 hectares have been recovered for food production. The name of the council is a tribute to Ezequiel Zamora and his uprising that began in September 1846…
Productive Reactivation of the Countryside: Táchira Chapter
In the municipality of Libertador in the state of Táchira, a new chapter was added to the daily struggle that peasant hands are waging for production. On June 11, a ceremony was held for the delivery of certified seeds and supplies for conuqueros producers from the municipalities of Torbes, Fernández Feo, San Cristóbal and Libertador….
Another Step Towards Sovereignty: Native Potato Seedbeds in Táchira
Production is indispensable in the defense of sovereignty and peace, said Rubén Rodríguez, coordinator of the Revolutionary Current Bolívar and Zamora in the state of Táchira. Going one step further in that direction, the agreement reached between the Association of Integral Producers of the Páramo (PROINPA) and the peasants organized in La Corriente for the…
Venezuela: Campesinos Denounce Pedro Camejo’s Failures Obstructing Food Production
The Vocería Campesina of the Guárico Political Secretariat of the Movimiento Revolucionario por las Agriculturas Indo Cumbe Campesina (MORAICCA), has seen the need to publicly denounce the directors of Pedro Camejo. They promised a month ago to send machinery to prepare land for the planting of 350 hectares, of which 200 are maize and 140…
“Declaration of Peasants’ Rights is a Substantive Part of Mobilizations Around the World.”
The challenge is to unite and build the global struggle Interview with Diego Montón, who is part of the National Indigenous Movement of Argentina, Cloc – Via Campesina and the International Collective of Peasant Rights of La Via Campesina. He talks about the scope of the Declaration of the Rights of Peasants in Peasants’ Struggles,…
Nicaragua: How Agroecology Promotes Economic and Social Justice
The Rural Workers Association (ATC) in Nicaragua is a member organisation of La Via Campesina , an international movement of two million small scale farmers committed to agriculture that promotes agroecology, food sovereignty and social justice. See also : Nicaragua: agroecology and food sovereignty In this video, Marlen Sanchez and Blanca Ruiz discuss the principles…
Food War in Venezuela
Miguel Angel Núñez Attacks on the Venezuelan electrical system recently occurred on March 07,09,11,25,29,30,31, 2019 in Venezuela. They have led to the proliferation of a whole series of serious and multiple consequences, which are undeniably described as crimes against humanity. Suddenly, the vital rights of the entire Venezuelan population have been violated, undermined and destabilized….
Venezuelan Campesinos Strive to Overcome Crisis with Self-Management of Food Production
Leonardo Fernandes El Maizal Commune has hundreds of hectares cultivated / Photo: Alba Ciudad During the international People’s Assembly, farmers report successful food production experiences The El Maizal commune, located between the states of Lara and Carabobo in northwestern Venezuela, has managed to guarantee food on the plates of hundreds of Venezuelan families in the…
New Challenges and Strategies in Defense of Land and Territory
What is happening with the land and natural wealth around the world, and to the people who depend on them? How are people responding to these trends, threats, and challenges? In an attempt to tackle these questions and building on La Via Campesina’s Maraba Declaration on Agrarian Reform, the Land Research Action Network, Global Campaign…
