A Hunger for Land: paraguay_soy18

Lote 8, Minga Porá district, Alto Paraná--October 29, 2008--In Lote 8, 150 landless families occupy the edge of a 700 acre property belonging to a Brazilian transgenic soy producer, hoping that the land will be granted to them if land titles are not presented. The next day, a local district attorney ordered the families to be evicted in time for planting season. Paraguay's $600 million dollar transnational soy industry represents more than 30 percent of total exports for the country, and many district attorneys in the soy producing regions have close personal and economic ties to soy production.

Lote 8, Minga Porá district, Alto Paraná--October 29, 2008--In Lote 8, 150 landless families occupy the edge of a 700 acre property belonging to a Brazilian transgenic soy producer, hoping that the land will be granted to them if land titles are not presented. The next day, a local district attorney ordered the families to be evicted in time for planting season. Paraguay's $600 million dollar transnational soy industry represents more than 30 percent of total exports for the country, and many district attorneys in the soy producing regions have close personal and economic ties to soy production.