Hondurans Reject Handing Over Land To Private Capital [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Published 14 October 2020 (6 hours 13 minutes ago)

Farmworkers claim that the measure could take away the livelihood of some 450,000 rural families.

Representatives from several Honduran Campesino organizations announced that they would carry out protest actions against the approval of decree PCM 030-2020. This norm, called the "Banana Law" by rural activists, would give land plots to national and international private capital.

According to the campesinos, this decree is a retreat from the agrarian conquests obtained in recent years. It motivates the transfer of land (which is cultivated by small farmers) to the hands of the highest bidder.

As part of the initiative's actions, the Campesino movement presented an appeal of unconstitutionality against decree PCM 030-2020 before the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ).

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From the peasant movement lawyers' point of view, the decree gives land to national and international agribusiness for 30 years, becoming a harmful decree for those it purportedly represents.

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