Quedará espacio para el campesinado entre los megaproyectos centroamericanos

Abstract

Territorial restructurings in Central America always corresponded to the economic and geostrategic interests of the moment. At the hegemonic pretensions of the North, fought in the past by many social movements, have joined the latest ambitions of emerging economic blocks to redesign the area, according to their own priorities. In most cases, the aim to develop the country and the creation of jobs for impoverished rural population are the main arguments made by institutions (or private companies) for these projects. Based on the observation of their impacts in three regions (of Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua), this paper analyzes how peasants and/or Indigenous react to the imposition of contradictory precepts regarding production systems, emphasizing on the tools but also the obstacles from political and economic order that, sometimes, are determinant in the choice of strategies adopted for resistance.