Ketsy Medina Sifontes On August 22 of this year, around eight in the morning, Paula Guillermina Lovera, 42 years old, and her grandson, 8 years old, were in their house located in Las Ventanas, in the municipality of San Gerónimo de Guayabal, Guárico state, when people dressed in civilian clothes, verbally identifying themselves as police…
Category: LAND REFORM
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…
Mexico’s Indigenous People Reject AMLO’s Approval of ‘Mayan Train’
Over 80 Indigenous communities in Mexico’s Yucatan say the president is creating a ‘false narrative’ that they approve of and identify with the 1,500km Mayan Train. Mayan communities in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula are speaking out against the president’s ribbon cutting ceremony on Sunday for a high-speed ‘Mayan Train’ set to be built across the region…
South Africa: Death of Zabalaza Mshengu Highlights Challenges with Land Reforms
Zabalaza Mshengu | Photo: AFRA For nearly twenty years, 104-year-old Zabalaza Mshengu waited to know whether or not his proper to a chunk of land he grew up and lived on had been settled. But it surely was a dream that he would by no means see being realised. Mshengu was born on a farm…
