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Guatemala's 1996 Peace Accords being undermined by intimidation and the absence of judicial protection. </span></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','Helvetica','Geneva','Swiss','SunSans-Regular';"> </span></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','Helvetica','Geneva','Swiss','SunSans-Regular';">Peasant organizers in Guatemala are facing intimidation, evictions and even murder as they try to establish respect for property rights and put pressure on the Guatemalan government to create a just, and legally recognized, system of land ownership.</span></p><p style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','Helvetica','Geneva','Swiss','SunSans-Regular';">Please Join us for a presentation by Aparicio Perez and Palmer Legare. </span></p><br><br><p style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b> </b> </span></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Aparicio Perez Guzman is a peasant organizer with the Committee of Peasant Unity (CUC) from Coatepeque in southwest Guatemala. He worked as a day laborer in cattle and cotton plantations in the 1980's, and joined a CUC base community in 1992. He has worked with the social ministry of the Catholic Church in Coatepeque, as well as on literacy programs, before becoming the CUC regional representative from the southern coast region from 1994-1998, and a member of the national steering committee of CUC from 1998 to the present. He was part of the executive committee of CNOC from 2005-2007, helping coordinate the national front against CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the United States. He has been involved in international social forums on food sovereignty and popular organizing in Mali (2005) and Brazil (2008, 2011).</span></p><p style="font-size: 11pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> In recent months CUC has faced a sharp rise in government repression, as thousands of indigenous Q'eqchi' farmers in the Polochic Valley have been evicted from their lands in order to clear the ground for planting sugarcane to be used in biofuel production. Aparicio is on a speaking tour throughout the Eastern United States to share the stories of those indigenous and rural workers who are being displaced in order to implement neoliberal agricultural and environmental policies</span>. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 11pt;"><b> </b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 11pt;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;" align="center"> <img name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.28" alt="Aparacio" src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs035/1101255878417/img/28.jpg" border="0" vspace="5" width="237" height="237" hspace="5"></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><b> </b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><b> </b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><b> </b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Aparicio Perez is a member of the national committee of the Committee of Peasant Unity</b></span> (CUC for its initials in Spanish)<span> </span>He was a grassroots leader with CUC during the Guatemalan Civil War, and was voted on to the national committee shortly after the final Peace Accords were signed in 1996.<span> </span>He has courageously stood up to multinational corporations and a repressive Guatemalan government which has escalated its repression of the peasant movement.<span> </span>He has been the target of legal persecution by the government and attacks by private security forces.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" track="on" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=ryjo4tbab&et=1105329478803&s=565&e=0014iwOFCS2CVU24SGG1wc-9CS9ywx84aCWuh0NzNHdKsm_zukMtV3EbyFuEajoWX92XMo1C5HBpyD2dtHKzF_2yefcLxlHsmh462J3b7Wj059O2jIz7ECYyw==" shape="rect" linktype="ZZZlink" target="_blank">CUC Webpage</a> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><b> </b></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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