Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Landless Movement in Photos

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GUATEMALA CITY, Feb 23 2004 (IPS) - Peasant farmers from Guatemala and Brazil have been united in an exhibit by famed Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado about the problems and struggles of the Landless Movement, showing here until the end of the month. “It's an exhibit of 47 photographs about the problems faced by the landless, similar to ours: the in subhuman situation in which they live, and how they are put down,” Rafael González, coordinator of the 25-year-old Guatemalan Peasant Unity Committee (CUC), told Tierramérica.

The show was planned to coincide with the commemoration on Feb. 20 of national hero Tecún Umán, a Maya who confronted and died at the hands of Spanish Conquistador Pedro de Alvarado.