For centuries, the territories of Mesoamerica, in what is now known as Abya Yala, have been subjected to a system of production imposed by foreign interests, profoundly affecting indigenous communities.
Today, the brutal expansion of oil palm monocultures is devastating their water and food sources, damaging their health, fragmenting the social fabric, and subjecting their inhabitants to an agro-industrial system based on exploitation and dispossession. But communities continue to resist in these regions. Guided by spirituality, community organization, and land recovery, they resist the plantations not only through protest and public denouncement, but also through the active defense of alternative ways of life.
Amid the climate crisis, their struggle is not only for the present, but also for the memory, territory, and future of the next generations. Listening to their voices means recognizing that this crisis is not theirs alone, but belongs to all of humanity.
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