Guatemala: This Land Is Ours - A Tale Of Land Theft Through Violence And Laws

Guatemala: This Land Is Ours - A Tale Of Land Theft Through Violence And Laws Frauke Decoodt, 2011   “This land is ours! It does not belong to the State. It is ours, as indigenous people!” says 20 year old Guatemalan Lorena Sanchez when on the 3rd of May 2011 a state representative from Fondo de Tierras, a government department regulating access to land, arrived in Tzalbal to tell its people they are living on state property.   Tzalbal, a village of fourteen settlements, is located in...

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