Latin America: Peasant leader warns growing threat of violence against huma rights defenders

This entry was written by our regular contributor Asier Hernando (@ asierhm). Oxfam today launched an international campaign of signatures to return their land to 769 farming families.
On the afternoon of Thursday 24 in Guatemala, and l CUC peasant leader Daniel Pascual death threats and assaults suffered by unidentified men who were demonstrating in favor of a cement. Not the first time that Daniel, who all could you c onocer through this blog , is threatened but adds to a worsening of violence against human rights defenders in many countries of Latin America. Read Article