Central American Studies

Communal Natural Resources in Central America

Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 11:00am

Location:
Jerome Richfield 319

Central American Studies Presents, For the Defense of Life, Mother Nature, Land and Territory, with Aura Lolita Chavez Ixcaquic

 

For the defense of life flyer


"With the men - the ones making the decisions to sell off the land - we had to make an effort to bring about a change in their perception of land tenure, and say that no one is an owner of the land, not even the state," Lolita explained at a women's forum in Istanbul in 2012.  "The bones of our grandmothers are in that soil, so how dare you sell that land with the bones of our grandmothers?"