Momentum Builds in the Fight for Land Rights in Guatemala: Making Us All a Bit Braver

Jul 20, 2018 | Shona Hawkes
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In 2011, 769 families in the Polochic Valley in Guatemala were evicted to make way for the Chabil Utzaj sugar mill. Without land to farm and any other support, they were plunged into poverty and hunger. Yet the evicted communities have continued to fight for land, inch by inch, year by year. In June 2018, the government provided land to 134 evicted families because of sustained efforts by people making it altogether 355 families evicted getting land now. Almost half of those evicted, now have land to call their own.