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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.

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.

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.

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.

The construction of Salvajina reservoir over 20 years ago, and the planned deviation of the Ovejas river concerns the afro-Colombian communities of three municipalities of Valle del Cauca region.
These plans of electricity generation, distribution and commercialization are promoted by the Empresa de Energía del Pacífico (EPSA). In November of 2000, 62.4% of the shares of the company was acquired by Spanish group Union Fenosa, which is under scrutiny for its actions in the countries where it operates.

At times when the Latin American governments expressed their unanimous rejection to the EU’s “Return Directive” that threatens with imprisoning and deporting illegal immigrants in the bloc’s 27 member countries, Spain is expressing its “will” to increase its investments in the region as a form of “compensation”, and it is promoting Economic Partnership Agreements.

US oil corporation Chevron is one of the largest companies of the field. It carries out oil exploitation activities all over the world. Besides the fact that it is one of the world’s largest corporations, the company’s name is usually associated with a record of environmental and human rights violations and its complicity with several totalitarian regimes.

A community consultation on open-pit mining exploration and exploitation was carried out on Saturday in Jacaltenango municipality – in Huehuetenango department, Guatemala.

Reporter Jose Bernardino Francisco from Radio Stereo Azul told Real World Radio that the result of the consultation was against mining activity.

The reporter said over 27,000 people expressed their opposition to mining exploitation in Saturday’s consultation. “This shows that noone agrees with the presence of mining corporations in this Guatemalan region”, he said.

Big soy fields begin to expand along Uruguay and they have recently entered the outskirts of the capital, displacing intensive horticulture production. They used to be relegated to the country’s western coastline.

Cuchilla de Rocha is only 50 kilometers off the Montevideo port, in Canelones department. It is the largest city of Sauce, a rural area considered to be the capital of several strategic productions of the Uruguayan farms: tomato, viticulture, fruticulture and horticulture in its different varieties get fresh to the urban consumer.

The former Argentine President, Carlos Saul Menem, is not exactly an example to follow in terms of political transparency. In spite of that, the former president did not hesitate to say that Yacyreta binational megadam is a monument of corruption.

In a totally different position, the social organizations that are taking part in the 4th Meeting of the Latin American Network of People Affected by Dams said last night that hydroelectric mega projects have been corrupt.