April 13, 2013

Source: Art Action Union

By Rosie Wong

Illegal eviction

In the morning on 20 March 2013, around 150 soldiers and police illegally evicted farmers organised in 15 cooperatives of ADCP (Association of Development for Farmers of El Progreso) and 14 cooperatives of CNTC (National Farmworkers Federation), who have been recovering state agrarian at Agua Blanca Sur from 16 February 2013 in El Progreso, Yoro. The eviction was illegal because the executor judge Enia Loreny Aguilera of El Progreso Court gave the eviction order, despite there being a protection appeal in process in court that stops such actions until a resolution is reached and confirmed.

Each time the families tried to recover the land, their occupation has been followed by eviction (in July and August of 2012, and now March 2013) in favour of Azunosa, despite, the state decision made in the first half of 2012 by INA (National Agrarian Department) to expropriate 5227 manzanas of land from Azunosa, of which the farmers have recovered 1090 manzanas. Before that there was an agreement between Honduras and UK that is now expired. Azunosa is of the transnational SABMiller, which has also a franchise to produce coca cola there. The company has been illegally occupying and exploiting these lands for sugar cane production for decades, having gone beyond legal ownership limits sobretechos (3).

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