https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/what-is-the-honduran-peasant-movements-model-of-change/ How active citizens and effective states can change the world Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:33:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/what-is-the-honduran-peasant-movements-model-of-change/#comment-3439 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:09:46 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=9402#comment-3439 Interesting post, but I’m troubled by the suggestion that the activists in el Bajo Aguan have not thought well enough about their strategies… as if they lack creativity or strategic thinking? Rather, there are politics sorrounding this conflict that have not been explored. The fact that the ‘owner’ of this land in Bajo Aguan is one of the wealthiest and most influential Hondurans plays a role, as does the fact that politics, government, business and drugs go hand in hand in the country (i.e.: A recent case proved that it is the police robbing and killing people in Tegucigalpa). The campesinos’ isolation and their strategies, or lack thereof, may be better understood in that context.

]]> https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/what-is-the-honduran-peasant-movements-model-of-change/#comment-3438 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:38:23 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=9402#comment-3438 Duncan, I found this posting very interesting– and very intriguing. Obviously, the example of this hard-pressed peasant movement is one that leaves many questions unanswered and deserves more study. Why is it having so little success in winning land rights? How is the movement structured, and what kinds of solutions are their members looking for? Could it try to be more self-sufficient, looking for foreign partners to help fund initiatives, rather than wait for a better government to be elected? In some ways, it reminds me of the Assembly of the Poor in Thailand, a social movement that saw its membership and effectiveness gradually decline as successive Thai governments promised to meet its demands then repeatedly failed to deliver.

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