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  • Jesus the Indigenous Leader<br />
<br />
Jesús Pérez, Corralito, Copán<br />
<br />
"I live here in Los Altos de Corralito, where I was born, high up in the mountains. I plant corn and beans, and sometimes I earn some money working as a labourer. I have six living daughters, and two living sons. And I have five or six grandchildren. <br />
<br />
Our community has a history of struggle for land and for recognition of our indigenous identity, and my family has paid dearly for it. Blood has been spilt for our indigenous rights.<br />
<br />
My nephew was Candido Amador. He was two days older than me. The Maya Chortí communities were marginalised by the big landowners, but thank God, now we have official recognition as an indigenous people, and we have a little bit of land. We’ve been here for thousands of years, but we only got recognition in the last twenty years.<br />
<br />
My nephew gave his life for our cause. They assassinated him.<br />
<br />
He had long hair, he dressed in indigenous clothes, and had very indigenous features. They thought he was the leader and representative of the indigenous movement, so they targeted him. In fact he wasn’t the representative. The person who represented our organisation was compañera María de Jesús Interiano. She was the first elected President of the Council, while we were preparing for the first Congress. But they thought that Candido was the leader and that’s why they assassinated him. <br />
He was beaten, he was cut with a machete on his hands, his neck, his head, and he was shot three times in the chest. And they scalped him. <br />
<br />
It was the night of the 11th of April 1997. He lived in my house, so they came here to get me to identify the body. He had been thrown on the side of the road. We brought him up here to the Catholic church to say prayers, for a wake. <br />
<br />
He is buried in Rincón del Buey. One of my own sons is buried next to him. He had a fall while he was working in the town, and died of the internal injuries later. We put flowers on both the graves at the same time."
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  • A young girl on a hammock in Sinaí, a Maya Chortí village in Copán, Honduras.
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  • Indigenous Maya Chortí men work with hoes during the occupation of land to secure some farmland for the indigenous people.
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  • Reina, a Maya Chortí woman in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • A Maya Chortí woman and her daughters at a standpipe in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • Jesus the Indigenous Leader<br />
<br />
Jesús Pérez, Corralito, Copán<br />
<br />
"I live here in Los Altos de Corralito, where I was born, high up in the mountains. I plant corn and beans, and sometimes I earn some money working as a labourer. I have six living daughters, and two living sons. And I have five or six grandchildren. <br />
<br />
Our community has a history of struggle for land and for recognition of our indigenous identity, and my family has paid dearly for it. Blood has been spilt for our indigenous rights.<br />
<br />
My nephew was Candido Amador. He was two days older than me. The Maya Chortí communities were marginalised by the big landowners, but thank God, now we have official recognition as an indigenous people, and we have a little bit of land. We’ve been here for thousands of years, but we only got recognition in the last twenty years.<br />
<br />
My nephew gave his life for our cause. They assassinated him.<br />
<br />
He had long hair, he dressed in indigenous clothes, and had very indigenous features. They thought he was the leader and representative of the indigenous movement, so they targeted him. In fact he wasn’t the representative. The person who represented our organisation was compañera María de Jesús Interiano. She was the first elected President of the Council, while we were preparing for the first Congress. But they thought that Candido was the leader and that’s why they assassinated him. <br />
He was beaten, he was cut with a machete on his hands, his neck, his head, and he was shot three times in the chest. And they scalped him. <br />
<br />
It was the night of the 11th of April 1997. He lived in my house, so they came here to get me to identify the body. He had been thrown on the side of the road. We brought him up here to the Catholic church to say prayers, for a wake. <br />
<br />
He is buried in Rincón del Buey. One of my own sons is buried next to him. He had a fall while he was working in the town, and died of the internal injuries later. We put flowers on both the graves at the same time."
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  • Jesus the Indigenous Leader<br />
<br />
Jesús Pérez, Corralito, Copán<br />
<br />
"I live here in Los Altos de Corralito, where I was born, high up in the mountains. I plant corn and beans, and sometimes I earn some money working as a labourer. I have six living daughters, and two living sons. And I have five or six grandchildren. <br />
<br />
Our community has a history of struggle for land and for recognition of our indigenous identity, and my family has paid dearly for it. Blood has been spilt for our indigenous rights.<br />
<br />
My nephew was Candido Amador. He was two days older than me. The Maya Chortí communities were marginalised by the big landowners, but thank God, now we have official recognition as an indigenous people, and we have a little bit of land. We’ve been here for thousands of years, but we only got recognition in the last twenty years.<br />
<br />
My nephew gave his life for our cause. They assassinated him.<br />
<br />
He had long hair, he dressed in indigenous clothes, and had very indigenous features. They thought he was the leader and representative of the indigenous movement, so they targeted him. In fact he wasn’t the representative. The person who represented our organisation was compañera María de Jesús Interiano. She was the first elected President of the Council, while we were preparing for the first Congress. But they thought that Candido was the leader and that’s why they assassinated him. <br />
He was beaten, he was cut with a machete on his hands, his neck, his head, and he was shot three times in the chest. And they scalped him. <br />
<br />
It was the night of the 11th of April 1997. He lived in my house, so they came here to get me to identify the body. He had been thrown on the side of the road. We brought him up here to the Catholic church to say prayers, for a wake. <br />
<br />
He is buried in Rincón del Buey. One of my own sons is buried next to him. He had a fall while he was working in the town, and died of the internal injuries later. We put flowers on both the graves at the same time."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2730.jpg
  • Jesus the Indigenous Leader<br />
<br />
Jesús Pérez, Corralito, Copán<br />
<br />
"I live here in Los Altos de Corralito, where I was born, high up in the mountains. I plant corn and beans, and sometimes I earn some money working as a labourer. I have six living daughters, and two living sons. And I have five or six grandchildren. <br />
<br />
Our community has a history of struggle for land and for recognition of our indigenous identity, and my family has paid dearly for it. Blood has been spilt for our indigenous rights.<br />
<br />
My nephew was Candido Amador. He was two days older than me. The Maya Chortí communities were marginalised by the big landowners, but thank God, now we have official recognition as an indigenous people, and we have a little bit of land. We’ve been here for thousands of years, but we only got recognition in the last twenty years.<br />
<br />
My nephew gave his life for our cause. They assassinated him.<br />
<br />
He had long hair, he dressed in indigenous clothes, and had very indigenous features. They thought he was the leader and representative of the indigenous movement, so they targeted him. In fact he wasn’t the representative. The person who represented our organisation was compañera María de Jesús Interiano. She was the first elected President of the Council, while we were preparing for the first Congress. But they thought that Candido was the leader and that’s why they assassinated him. <br />
He was beaten, he was cut with a machete on his hands, his neck, his head, and he was shot three times in the chest. And they scalped him. <br />
<br />
It was the night of the 11th of April 1997. He lived in my house, so they came here to get me to identify the body. He had been thrown on the side of the road. We brought him up here to the Catholic church to say prayers, for a wake. <br />
<br />
He is buried in Rincón del Buey. One of my own sons is buried next to him. He had a fall while he was working in the town, and died of the internal injuries later. We put flowers on both the graves at the same time."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2710.jpg
  • Jesus the Indigenous Leader<br />
<br />
Jesús Pérez, Corralito, Copán<br />
<br />
"I live here in Los Altos de Corralito, where I was born, high up in the mountains. I plant corn and beans, and sometimes I earn some money working as a labourer. I have six living daughters, and two living sons. And I have five or six grandchildren. <br />
<br />
Our community has a history of struggle for land and for recognition of our indigenous identity, and my family has paid dearly for it. Blood has been spilt for our indigenous rights.<br />
<br />
My nephew was Candido Amador. He was two days older than me. The Maya Chortí communities were marginalised by the big landowners, but thank God, now we have official recognition as an indigenous people, and we have a little bit of land. We’ve been here for thousands of years, but we only got recognition in the last twenty years.<br />
<br />
My nephew gave his life for our cause. They assassinated him.<br />
<br />
He had long hair, he dressed in indigenous clothes, and had very indigenous features. They thought he was the leader and representative of the indigenous movement, so they targeted him. In fact he wasn’t the representative. The person who represented our organisation was compañera María de Jesús Interiano. She was the first elected President of the Council, while we were preparing for the first Congress. But they thought that Candido was the leader and that’s why they assassinated him. <br />
He was beaten, he was cut with a machete on his hands, his neck, his head, and he was shot three times in the chest. And they scalped him. <br />
<br />
It was the night of the 11th of April 1997. He lived in my house, so they came here to get me to identify the body. He had been thrown on the side of the road. We brought him up here to the Catholic church to say prayers, for a wake. <br />
<br />
He is buried in Rincón del Buey. One of my own sons is buried next to him. He had a fall while he was working in the town, and died of the internal injuries later. We put flowers on both the graves at the same time."
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  • Manuel, Maya Chortí indigenous leader
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  • An indigenous Maya Chortí girl at Sinaí Chimichal, near Copán Ruinas
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  • Indigenous Maya Chortí men work with hoes during the occupation of land to secure some farmland for the indigenous people.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Jesus_20031013_002.jpg
  • José Rufino, an indigenous Maya Chortí man in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • A Maya Chortí man and his children at home in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • Indigenous Maya Chortí man and woman operate a video camera in Copán, Honduras
    honduras_hawkey_20121207_003.jpg
  • Indigenous Maya Chortí men work with hoes during the occupation of land to secure some farmland for the indigenous people.
    honduras_hawkey_20031013_140.jpg
  • An indigenous Maya Chortí girl carries her brother who is suffering from malnutrition. The infant mortality rate in this area of Copán, Honduras, among indigenous people was as high as 50% in the 1990s.
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  • An indigenous Maya Chortí man during the occupation of land to secure some farmland for the indigenous people.
    honduras_hawkey_20031013_121.jpg
  • Manuel, an indigenous Maya Chortí leader, sits on a hammock and smokes a cigarette
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  • Maya Chortí men help a water engineer take topographic readings for a drinking water system. The water system was never built because of threats from local landowners.
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  • Manuel, a Maya Chortí leader, makes a rude joke about his indigenous peach.
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  • A Maya Chortí woman and her children at home in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • A Maya Chortí family at home in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • Maya Chortí girls in the Copán region of Honduras
    honduras_hawkey_20031013_071.jpg
  • A young Maya Chortí woman degrains maize in her kitchen in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • Two Maya Chortí sisters in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • A Maya Chortí woman preparing food in her kitchen in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • Maya Chortí indigenous girls with their grandmother, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras
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  • A Maya Chortí baby girl in a hammock.
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  • A Maya Chortí girl carries her brother
    honduras_hawkey_20121207_011.jpg
  • Indigenous Maya Chortí men work with hoes during the occupation of land to secure some farmland for the indigenous people.
    honduras_hawkey_20031013_134.jpg
  • A Maya Chortí family at home in the Copán region of Honduras
    honduras_hawkey_20031013_103.jpg
  • A Maya Chortí family at home in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • A Maya Chortí family at home in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • Musicians play in a Maya-Chortí ceremony in thanksgiving for the corn harvest during the Festival de Maíz.
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  • Portrait of an indigenous Maya-Chortí man in Sinaí-Chimichal, Copán Ruinas, Honduras.
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  • Portrait of an indigenous Maya-Chortí woman, Rosa, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras
    honduras_hawkey_20170810_174.jpg
  • Portrait of an indigenous Maya-Chortí woman, Amparo Rodriguez, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras
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  • Portrait of an indigenous Maya-Chortí woman, Cecilia Rodriguez, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras
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  • Maya-Chortí people celebrate a religious ceremony in thanksgiving for the corn harvest during the Festival de Maíz.
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  • Maya-Chortí people celebrate a mass in thanksgiving for the corn harvest during the Festival de Maíz.
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  • Maya-Chortí people celebrate a religious ceremony in thanksgiving for the corn harvest during the Festival de Maíz.
    honduras_hawkey_20170810_222.jpg
  • An indigenous Maya-Chortí family scene in Sinaí Chimichal, Copán Ruinas, Honduras.
    honduras_hawkey_20170810_163.jpg
  • Portrait of an indigenous Maya-Chortí woman, Rosa, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras
    honduras_hawkey_20170810_175.jpg
  • Portrait of an indigenous Maya-Chortí woman, Rosa, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras
    honduras_hawkey_20170810_164.jpg
  • Portrait of an indigenous woman, Irma, 19, de El Chilar, Copán, Honduras
    honduras_hawkey_20170810_136.jpg
  • Portrait of an indigenous Maya-Chortí woman, Angélica Rodriguez, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras
    honduras_hawkey_20170810_111.jpg
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  • Portrait of an indigenous Maya-Chortí woman, Angélica Rodriguez, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras
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  • Portrait of an indigenous Maya-Chortí woman, Amparo Rodriguez, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras
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  • María de Jesús Interiano, indigenous Maya-Chortí leader, Copán, Honduras
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  • Chepe's daughter, Rosa
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  • Maya-Chortí Jesus<br />
<br />
Jesús Alberto Ramírez, Sinaí Chimichal, Copán<br />
<br />
"Sinai is a holy place. It’s where Moses got the ten commandments. Chimichal is a tree that grows here. That’s why we called this place Sinaí Chimichal. We’ve been here since 1991, when we organised ourselves into a group. <br />
<br />
We organised ourselves because we’d been enslaved by the landowner. We weren’t allowed to plant food to eat, or to put up a fence around our huts, or to wash clothes in the stream. They just made us work for whatever they wanted to pay us, and they’d treat us very badly.<br />
<br />
Organising ourselves was hard on everyone. My brother, Nicolás Ramírez, was shot in the belly and killed. The rest of us were captured, tied up with rope, and taken to prison in Santa Rosa. After 20 days or so I was let out, but I was captured and sent to prison again. Our friend Rufino was also shot and captured and sent to prison without medical treatment.<br />
<br />
While I was in prison the second time negotiations took place, and eventually we were given about 30 acres to plant food and build huts. And here we are.<br />
<br />
We’ve suffered a lot of poverty here. Most of the families here have lost a child. But since we’ve been able to plant food it’s a lot better and not so many children have died."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180317_2146.jpg
  • Maya-Chortí Jesus<br />
<br />
Jesús Alberto Ramírez, Sinaí Chimichal, Copán<br />
<br />
"Sinai is a holy place. It’s where Moses got the ten commandments. Chimichal is a tree that grows here. That’s why we called this place Sinaí Chimichal. We’ve been here since 1991, when we organised ourselves into a group. <br />
<br />
We organised ourselves because we’d been enslaved by the landowner. We weren’t allowed to plant food to eat, or to put up a fence around our huts, or to wash clothes in the stream. They just made us work for whatever they wanted to pay us, and they’d treat us very badly.<br />
<br />
Organising ourselves was hard on everyone. My brother, Nicolás Ramírez, was shot in the belly and killed. The rest of us were captured, tied up with rope, and taken to prison in Santa Rosa. After 20 days or so I was let out, but I was captured and sent to prison again. Our friend Rufino was also shot and captured and sent to prison without medical treatment.<br />
<br />
While I was in prison the second time negotiations took place, and eventually we were given about 30 acres to plant food and build huts. And here we are.<br />
<br />
We’ve suffered a lot of poverty here. Most of the families here have lost a child. But since we’ve been able to plant food it’s a lot better and not so many children have died."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180317_2144.jpg
  • Maya-Chortí Jesus<br />
<br />
Jesús Alberto Ramírez, Sinaí Chimichal, Copán<br />
<br />
"Sinai is a holy place. It’s where Moses got the ten commandments. Chimichal is a tree that grows here. That’s why we called this place Sinaí Chimichal. We’ve been here since 1991, when we organised ourselves into a group. <br />
<br />
We organised ourselves because we’d been enslaved by the landowner. We weren’t allowed to plant food to eat, or to put up a fence around our huts, or to wash clothes in the stream. They just made us work for whatever they wanted to pay us, and they’d treat us very badly.<br />
<br />
Organising ourselves was hard on everyone. My brother, Nicolás Ramírez, was shot in the belly and killed. The rest of us were captured, tied up with rope, and taken to prison in Santa Rosa. After 20 days or so I was let out, but I was captured and sent to prison again. Our friend Rufino was also shot and captured and sent to prison without medical treatment.<br />
<br />
While I was in prison the second time negotiations took place, and eventually we were given about 30 acres to plant food and build huts. And here we are.<br />
<br />
We’ve suffered a lot of poverty here. Most of the families here have lost a child. But since we’ve been able to plant food it’s a lot better and not so many children have died."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180317_2140.jpg
  • a mototaxi crosses a stream in Copán, Honduras
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  • Maya-Chortí girls dressed in blue during the Festival de Maíz, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras.
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  • Maya-Chortí people celebrate a religious ceremony in thanksgiving for the corn harvest during the Festival de Maíz.
    honduras_hawkey_20170810_231.jpg
  • Portrait of an indigenous Maya-Chortí woman, Angélica Rodriguez, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras
    honduras_hawkey_20170810_113.jpg
  • The corn and bean crop was ruined before it could be harvested in Copán. CASM works with the indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán who have lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
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  • Moises Mancía, an indigenous Maya Chortí man who lives in Carrizalón, Honduras, walks through a ruined field of corn and beans, most are inedible because they sprouted and also have a fungal rot caused by excessive humidity during the rains that came with hurricanes Eta and Iota.
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  • Moises Mancía, an indigenous Maya Chortí man who lives in Carrizalón, Honduras, walks through a ruined field of corn and beans, most are inedible because they sprouted and also have a fungal rot caused by excessive humidity during the rains that came with hurricanes Eta and Iota.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_72...jpg
  • Handfuls of beans that have sprouted on in their pods before being harvested in Copán. CASM works with the indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán who have lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_68...jpg
  • Beatriz Interiano, 14, is a Maya Chortí indigenous girl. CASM works with the indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán who have lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_65...jpg
  • The Interiano family with their newly-built fish pond. CASM works with the indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán who have lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_65...jpg
  • Santiago Oaxaca, is an indigenous Maya Chortí who lives in Carrizalón, Honduras. Here he checks through some beans salvaged from a ruined harvest, most however are inedible by humans because they sprouted and also have a fungal rot, caused by excessive humidity during the rains that came with hurricanes Eta and Iota.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_64...jpg
  • On March 1st 2017 a march of indigenous people was held to commemmorate the assassination of indigenous Lenca leader Berta Cáceres. Lencas, Tolupans, Maya Chortís, Pech, Miskitos and Garifunas marched to the Supreme Court of Justice in Tegucigalpa.
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  • Lucía López Pérez en Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, una zona Maya Chortí. Esta zona del país esta muy afectado por el cambio climático. La lluvia de los ultimos siete años ha sido muy poca e irrugular, si cae el agua cae cuando ya no ayuda las plantas. No se ha podido lograr una buena cosecha en varios años y cada siembra es apenas para perder la semilla. Como la sequía no acaba, los campesinos diversifican sustento buscando empleo como jornaleros, viajando frecuentemente por meses a trabajar. La Federación Luterana Mundial apoya projectos en la zona incluyendo la privisión de granos básicos.
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  • A boy at the school  in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, a Maya Chortí territory. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
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  • Handfuls of beans that have sprouted on in their pods before being harvested in Copán. CASM works with the indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán who have lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_73...jpg
  • Beans that have sprouted on in their pods before being harvested in Copán. CASM works with the indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán who have lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_73...jpg
  • The corn and bean crop was ruined before it could be harvested in Copán. CASM works with the indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán who have lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_72...jpg
  • The bean crop was ruined before it could be harvested in Copán. CASM works with the indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán who have lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_71...jpg
  • The corn and bean crop was ruined before it could be harvested in Copán. CASM works with the indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán who have lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_71...jpg
  • Corn sprouting on the cob before being harvested in Copán. CASM works with the indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán who have lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_71...jpg
  • Indigenous Maya Chortí men thresh beans in the hope of rescuing perhaps 10% of the harvest, but most of the beans have sprouted in the pods and can't be dried and saved
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  • Indigenous Maya Chortí men thresh beans in the hope of rescuing perhaps 10% of the harvest, but most of the beans have sprouted in the pods and can't be dried and saved
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  • Corn sprouting on the cob before being harvested in Copán. CASM works with the indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán who have lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
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  • Lourdes Canan Oaxaca, 17, is expecting a baby early in 2021. She lives in an indigenous Maya Chortí village in Copán, Honduras. The double hurricanes of Eta and Iota have destroyed most of the staple crops in the area and she and her family face hunger and malnutrition.
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  • Santiago Oaxaca and Moises Mancía are  indigenous Maya Chortí men who lives in Carrizalón, Honduras. Here they inspect a batch of beans that has been harvested, from a whole year's harvest they say there's enough good beans to make a single meal.
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  • Handfuls of beans that have sprouted on in their pods before being harvested in Copán. CASM works with the indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán who have lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
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  • Kenia Interiano García, 9, in Carrizalón, Copán, Honduras. CASM works with this indigenous Chortí community that has lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
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  • On March 1st 2017 a march of indigenous people was held to commemmorate the assassination of indigenous Lenca leader Berta Cáceres. Lencas, Tolupans, Maya Chortís, Pech, Miskitos and Garifunas marched to the Supreme Court of Justice in Tegucigalpa.
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  • On March 1st 2017 a march of indigenous people was held to commemmorate the assassination of indigenous Lenca leader Berta Cáceres. Lencas, Tolupans, Maya Chortís, Pech, Miskitos and Garifunas marched to the Supreme Court of Justice in Tegucigalpa.<br />
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Here Garifuna people sing and dance during the march.
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  • Hats for sale at the march for Berta Cáceres in Tegucigalpa.<br />
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On March 1st 2017 a march of indigenous people was held to commemmorate the assassination of indigenous Lenca leader Berta Cáceres. Lencas, Tolupans, Maya Chortís, Pech, Miskitos and Garifunas marched to the Supreme Court of Justice in Tegucigalpa.
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  • On March 1st 2017 a march of indigenous people was held to commemmorate the assassination of indigenous Lenca leader Berta Cáceres. Lencas, Tolupans, Maya Chortís, Pech, Miskitos and Garifunas marched to the Supreme Court of Justice in Tegucigalpa.<br />
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Here Garifuna people sing and dance during the march.
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  • Chortí men in the mountains of Jocotán, Guatemala. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
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  • Lucía López Pérez en Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, una zona Maya Chortí. Esta zona del país esta muy afectado por el cambio climático. La lluvia de los ultimos siete años ha sido muy poca e irrugular, si cae el agua cae cuando ya no ayuda las plantas. No se ha podido lograr una buena cosecha en varios años y cada siembra es apenas para perder la semilla. Como la sequía no acaba, los campesinos diversifican sustento buscando empleo como jornaleros, viajando frecuentemente por meses a trabajar. La Federación Luterana Mundial apoya projectos en la zona incluyendo la privisión de granos básicos.
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  • A landscape in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, a Maya Chortí territory. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
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  • Santiago Oaxaca is an indigenous Maya Chortí who lives in Carrizalón, Honduras. Here he walks through a ruined field of corn and beans, most are inedible because they sprouted and also have a fungal rot caused by excessive humidity during the rains that came with hurricanes Eta and Iota.
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  • Santiago Oaxaca is an indigenous Maya Chortí who lives in Carrizalón, Honduras. Here he checks through some beans in a ruined harvest, most are inedible because they sprouted and also have a fungal rot caused by excessive humidity during the rains that came with hurricanes Eta and Iota.
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  • Corn sprouting on the cob before being harvested in Copán. CASM works with the indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán who have lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
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  • Maya Chortí boys jump into a river pool in Carrizalón, Copán.
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