Invasion Of The Three Headed Soybean Monster
Here's a highly interesting and thought provoking article on Paraguay, the world’s fourth-largest exporter of soybeans, where the invasion of the three-headed soybean monster is raping the land.
Here almost 100,000 campesinos (peasant farmers) have been evicted from their land as the multi-national conglomerates move into town to grow soybeans.
In a country where 83 percent of campesinos occupy only 6 percent of the land, forty percent of all property is possessed by just 351 owners of large estates.
Those that resist face serious consequences. More than a hundred campesino leaders have been assassinated, and more than two thousand others have faced trumped-up charges for their resistance to the intrusion of agribusiness.
Get off your land
Here almost 100,000 campesinos (peasant farmers) have been evicted from their land as the multi-national conglomerates move into town to grow soybeans.
In a country where 83 percent of campesinos occupy only 6 percent of the land, forty percent of all property is possessed by just 351 owners of large estates.
Those that resist face serious consequences. More than a hundred campesino leaders have been assassinated, and more than two thousand others have faced trumped-up charges for their resistance to the intrusion of agribusiness.
Get off your land
