Jeff Abbott is an independent journalist and photographer covering social movements and human rights in Mexico and Central America. His work has been featured in Truthout, The Progressive, Upsidedown World and many others. In this interview we talk about Honduran resistance to the Juan Orlando Hernandez regime, Berta Caceres and environmental activism, Guatemala's 36-year war, and more.

So when the attack began, people were concerned. One of my friends was like, c'mon Jeff. We gotta go, we gotta go. And my thought was, document, document, document, document.

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There is no armed resistance. The guerillas laid down their arms and entered into the Peace Accords. But the war transformed into another counter-insurgency. Today you see the same issues arising in a different context. The question of land. The history of Guatemala is the struggle over land.

 

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Indigenous communities carry on Berta Cacéres’ work by defending nature and health care in Honduras by Jeff Abbott

A Victory Against Ecocide in Guatemala: Activist Pressure Forces Nestlé to Drop Destructive Palm Oil Producer by Jeff Abbott

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