Terrorist landowners and palm oil magnates Miguel Facussé Barjum and René Morales Carazo have seen a major setback this week as, in a quite unusual move, a Tegucigalpa court upheld the claims of the organized cooperativist peasants of the MARCA, acknowledging their full rights over 1800 hectares of land which they claimed since 18 years ago.
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Unusual happiness in the faces of the Honduran farmers |
More importantly, for a change, the police forces acted against the exploiters and forced their paramilitary forces to retreat and yield the lands. Not that they did not hold until the last minute.
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Morales' private army guarded the land until forced out by police |
Source:
LINyM[es] (many more photos).
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