Plan to Evict Honduran
Farmers Denounced
TEGUCIGALPA - Honduran security forces have
prepared a plan to evict thousands of
families from the occupied lands in northern
Honduras, denounced the Movement of Unified
Farmers of Aguan (MUCA).
A report from that organization says that
the eviction could be staged from Tuesday
on. The army, police, and paramilitary hired
by landowners would take part in the
operation.
MUCA held the government and businessmen
Miguel Facusse, Rene Morales and Reinaldo
Canales responsible for any violent action
against the farmers.
About 3,000 families settled in the left
bank of Aguan River since last December have
been suffering eviction attempts, in which
about four farmers have been killed.
The Aguan conflict started in the 90's, when
landowners usurped about 20,000 hectares by
fraudulent means, denounced the Movement of
Unified Farmers of Aguan.
MUCA began the struggle for claiming those
lands in 2001, forcing the government to
sign an agreement in 2009 to create a
tripartite commission and seek a solution to
the problem.
However, that accord was thwarted by the
June 28 coup d'etat against the government
of President Manuel Zelaya.
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