A Hunger for Land: paraguay_soy05

Lote 8, Minga Porá district, Alto Paraná--October 29, 2008--Brothers Ángel and Pedro Ramirez stand on the plot of land where their family's home once existed, now a transgenic soybean field. They, like most of their neighbors, sold their home in Lote 8 once the fumigation started. Ángel (27 years old, left), a self-described militant, puts it this way: {quote}It's either leave, or stay and die.{quote}

Lote 8, Minga Porá district, Alto Paraná--October 29, 2008--Brothers Ángel and Pedro Ramirez stand on the plot of land where their family's home once existed, now a transgenic soybean field. They, like most of their neighbors, sold their home in Lote 8 once the fumigation started. Ángel (27 years old, left), a self-described militant, puts it this way: "It's either leave, or stay and die."