Resistencia

Resistencia tells the story of the farmers of Honduras' Aguán Valley. After decades of working in miserable conditions on palm oil plantations, they finally got a President that stood up for them. On June 28th, 2009, he was overthrown in a military coup. Seeing no chance to improve their situation demcratically, they took over the plantations. For more than two years, they have maintained occupied over 5,000 hectares of fertile African Palm fields, and have faced constant repression from police, military, and paramilitaries hired by the plantation owners. In all, more than 50 members and supporters of the occupation have been killed in the last two years. But, despite the daily threat of violence, the occupied land has seen a radical new democratic vision, including equal participation of women, experiments with food crops, and other progressions not seen in the valley before the farmers took the land. Resistencia follows a handful of key members of these exciting new communities, introducing their struggle to a world with a heightened interest in occupations, from Cairo to Wall St., but unfamiliar with the astonishing and ongoing occupation of the Aguán Valley.