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Rights Action
June 5, 2024
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Life conditions worsen in Central American Dry Corridor,
increasingly vulnerable to global climate changes resulting from human behavior
Agroecology project
In recent years, Rights Action has been funding the exemplary agroecology work of the ACPC (Association of Community Production Committees), an organization run by children, family members and some direct survivors of the Achi genocide.
In the 1980s, Rabinal, the geographical center of the Maya Achi region, was one of four areas where, as determined by the United Nations Truth Commission final report in 1999, the U.S.-backed regimes carried out genocidal massacres and full-scale destruction of Mayan villages and property. The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank participated in the Achi genocide by funding and partnering with the military regimes in the construction of the genocidal Chixoy hydro-electric dam project.
Rabinal Prolonged Drought Emergency Plan
This year, due to one of the longest and hottest dry seasons in recent history, drought-like conditions are particularly extreme in Central America’s dry corridor, including Rabinal. The ACPC sent Rights Action a request for emergency food funding to support 18 Maya Achi communities in the southern and northern parts of Rabinal that all participate in ACPC’s agroecology programs.
- Acquire basic grains - corn and beans - in wholesale centers.
- Provide these basic grains to more than 100 families who have difficulty producing the minimum amount of food due to lack of water while we overcome the prolonged drought crisis.
The immediate goal is to help families survive through to rain season which has yet to begin.
Generalized Food Insecurity Crisis
The problems that have led to this generalized crisis of food insecurity for the thousands of vulnerable families in the Rabinal Valley are historical and current.
Due the historical dispossession of the best lands of Guatemala, over the course of centuries of imperialism, colonialism and the creation of the settler colonialist States, the Indigenous peoples were forcibly pushed into the highlands and unfertile lands of the Dry Corridor. Food insecurity is also due to the global human climate crisis that worsens the living conditions in regions such as the dry corridor of Central America, including the Rabinal Valley, Guatemala.
Due to the extreme heat and prolonged drought this year, rivers and springs in the recharge zone of the Xesiguan River basin in southern Rabinal have dried up. This river is the main source that supplies the Achi population of this region in their production of corn, beans, herbs, fruit trees, vegetative pasture, and animals that provide part of the basic food basket.
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