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Several people died in Honduras after an attack against peasants living in Guadalupe Carney community, near Puerto de Trujillo.

According to Prensa Latina news agency, Rafael Alegria, counselor of the Coordinating Committee of Peasant Organizations, said the attack had been carried out by gunmen paid by estate owner Henry Osorto, who claims the property of the lands donated by the municipality, which have been occupied by nearly 560 families for twenty years.

Raquel Cruz from Cesta – Friends of the Earth El Salvador told Real World Radio that “it’s them –the corporations- who should find alternatives, because they are getting all the profits”.

The alternative proposed by social organizations is simply “no to dams” since “they can’t put the government’s responsibility on us”.

The Latin American banana producers could create a “common front” to force the European Union (EU) to honor its promise of reducing tariffs. The European bloc took a step backwards in the negotiations with Latin American countries and showed its real face under the cooperation mask it uses to promote free trade agreements.

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Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has not finished “repairing the damages” caused by hydroelectric megaprojects, but he is still promoting the building of new projects considered as a “national priority”.

Natalia Landivar from the Food First Information Action Network (FIAN) talked with Real World Radio within the 4th Meeting of the Latin American Network of People Affected by Dams, held in the city of Lorica, Colombia.

The heavy rains, combined with droughts are the most visible effect of climate change in Costa Rica, Javier Baltodano, member of COECOCEIBA, Friends of the Earth Costa Rica, told Real World Radio.

Baltodano said the the main impact of climate change is that the rain patterns have changed substantially, since there are “heavier rains during the rainy season and more intense droughts during the dry season”.

A group of neighbors of Cuchilla de Rocha, 40 kilometers off Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo, addressed the local authorities to express their rejection to agribusiness and ask for protection from it. Their lands have been surrounded by GM soy plantations.

Real World Radio reported that there has been an expansion of GM soy plantations in areas where vegetables had been traditionally planted. The GM crops have been previously fumigated with glyphosate and other agrotoxics.

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Asia is a highly populated continent, where many people live near the coastline. For this reason, one of the effects of climate change that sparks great concern is that if the sea level grows, it will damage many people in Asia. Yuri Onodera, member of Friends of the Earth Japan explained this in an interview with Real World Radio.