Burned house and kitchen | Photo: Marian DeCouto
Aggressions have increased in 2016 as the palm oil company Aportes San Isidro continues to harass and threaten the community of Las Pavas adding to their tactics the offering of monetary handouts, housing alternatives, signing lease contracts, and money towards agricultural projects with the promise to let them cultivate in peace.
The farming community’s association ASOCAB continues to denounce these aggressions to no avail. Even though there has been judicial and administrative movement that would appear to favour the community, the reality on the ground remains the same. For this reason ASOCAB has published a public denouncement of the most recent events in hopes that the authorities will put an end to the impunity.