COMMISSIONS: The Curse of Palm Oil in Guatemala: 01-20180212palm0167

EL ESTOR, GUATEMALA. February 12, 2018 – A palm oil plantation surrounds a family plot in the Q'eqchi indigenous Mayan Q'eqchi community of Nuevo Esperanza Tunico, in the Polochic Valley, in eastern Guatemala. In October 2016, farmers watched police set their homes on fire and cut her crops with machetes. About 80 families from three communities resisted a court ordered eviction from a banana plantation company, Inversiones Cobra SA, that sought to kick out workers and their families after they allegedly occupied land procured to produce bananas and African palm.

EL ESTOR, GUATEMALA. February 12, 2018 – A palm oil plantation surrounds a family plot in the Q'eqchi indigenous Mayan Q'eqchi community of Nuevo Esperanza Tunico, in the Polochic Valley, in eastern Guatemala.  

In October 2016, farmers watched police set their homes on fire and cut her crops with machetes. About 80 families from three communities resisted a court ordered eviction from a banana plantation company, Inversiones Cobra SA, that sought to kick out workers and their families after they allegedly occupied land procured to produce bananas and African palm.