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Grabbing Power: The New Struggles for Land, Food and Democracy in Northern Honduras

Author: Tanya Kerssen

Food First Books, Oakland CA, 2013, pp. 188

This book covers the popular resistance that has developed in the towns since the coup in 2009, but especially in the Bajo Aguan valley, where peasants who are contesting their dispossession from their land since 1992 by the Dinant Corporation and other large landowners promoting palm oil plantations, are staging large scale occupations of land. The area has a large military presence and special forces are implicated in killing local activists.