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Title: The Coup and the Palm Trees : Agrarian Conflict and Political Power in Honduras
Description: “If they are going to kill us anyway, we might as well die in our lands.” With these words and a shrug of shoulders, a leader of the Unified Peasant Movement of the Aguán (MUCA) explains their decision to occupy more than 20,000 hectares of oil palm plantations in the Bajo Aguán region in Northern Honduras after the military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, 2009. The Coup under the Palm Trees interrogates the Honduran present, through an exploration of the country's spatiotemporal trajectory of agrarian change since the mid-twentieth century. It tells the double history of how the Aguán region went from a set of “empty” lands to the centerpiece of the country's agrarian reform in the 1980s and a central site for the palm oil industry and drug trade, while a militarized process of state formation took place between the coups of 1963 and 2009. Rather than a case of failed democratic transition, the book shows how the current Honduran crisis—exemplified by massive outmigration towards the United States, blatant narco-state links, and the 2009 coup—is better understood within longer historical processes in which violence, exclusion, and dispossession became the central organizational principles of the state.
Authors: Andrés León Araya
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Subjects: Neoliberalism--Honduras, Land reform--Honduras--Agua´n River Valley, Palm oil industry--Honduras--Agua´n River Valley
Categories: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American
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