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  • a man pulls a boat safely to shore on a project for disaster preparedness on the atlantic coast of Honduras. The project helps avoids flooding and landslide disasters that have occured here in the past during the hurricane season.
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  • A man working at a gourmet cocoa nursery in the Merendon valley of Honduras.
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  • Portrait of a man in Panasabasta village, Baghamari gram panchayat,  Begunia Block, Khurda, Orissa. In this area filariasis is endemic, there are 225 patients in the five small villages of this gram panchayat. Worldwide there are more than 40 million people seriously incapacitated and deformed by the disease.
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  • Gay Jesus<br />
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Emanuel de Jesús Barrientos, Comayagüela<br />
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"I knew I was gay when I was six years old. I’m 33 now, the age of Christ.<br />
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In Honduras many gay men suffer discrimination. They are attacked, even killed. It’s dangerous to come out of the closet as it puts everything in danger - your family, your social relationships, your work, your security, even your life. We live in an aggressive environment of violent heterosexual machismo.<br />
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I work promoting LGBT rights here in the office of the Arcoiris association and I study at the university too. In our offices we are obliged to have a security system with cameras and rolls of razorwire as we’ve had threats.<br />
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We have a proposal for a law for gender identity and equality. Through this law we would have a legal basis to prohibit all sorts of discrimination for sexual orientation, race, ability, age and gender identity. Though the initiative is from Arcoiris it would cover LGBT, disability, women, Afro-Hondurans, the elderly, indigenous and others.<br />
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There are gender equality laws in other countries but, of course, with this government there’s not much chance of seeing it passed in Honduras. A lot of people are opposed to the movement for equality, they think the only thing we want is equal marriage and the right to adopt.<br />
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On May 17th we promote campaigns against homo, lesbo, bi and transphobia in Honduras.<br />
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Two years ago I tried dressing as a woman for the first time. I feel it allows me to express a feminine side of my character that I can’t while I’m dressed as a man. I don’t walk down the street like it, but I do it for LGBT events, like a show. It’s a bit of fun."
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  • Jesús García Hernández, in the village of Los Horcones, Langue, Valle, Honduras. "The community is affected by a prolonged drought. We’ve just lost another harvest, it’s gone on for nine years. Winters used to be good, we’d have rain. Now we have years where there’s no water in the streams, the rivers, the wells. We need water, without it we suffer. The crops need water, without it they don’t grow and we don’t get a crop, it’s simple. The trees keep the humidity, but man has chopped down the trees. Now the trees that are left are drying up”. <br />
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Jesús stands next to an empty rainwater harvesting tank at his house.
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  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
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  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
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  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
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  • Early morning a man cuts plantains at the Huembes Market in Managua, Nicaragua
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  • A man stands atop of stacks of coffee sacks in the COAGRICSAL warehouse.
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  • This Q'eqchi man carries a load of firewood he has cut and bundled from Concepción Actelá to Santa Catalina de la Tinta in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. It's two hours walking very fast. With luck he'll get 20 Quetzales, that's $2.60 or £2.00. Then he'll walk home. He carries this very heavy load with a headband called a 'mecapal'.
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  • This Q'eqchi man carries a load of firewood he has cut and bundled from Concepción Actelá to Santa Catalina de la Tinta in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. It's two hours walking very fast. With luck he'll get 20 Quetzales, that's $2.60 or £2.00. Then he'll walk home. He carries this very heavy load with a headband called a 'mecapal'.
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  • A man on a motorbike transports dozens of live ducks in a rural area of Takéo province, Cambodia
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  • A man walks along a street early in the morning in La Pastora, Caracas
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  • A man pushes a loaded trolley at  the Huembes Market in Managua, Nicaragua
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  • Early morning, a young man sleeps on a chair at a corn mill in the Huembes Market in Managua, Nicaragua
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  • A man reclines and drinks from a cup atop a water tank in southern Malawi
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  • A man who is dalit in Orissa
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  • Jesús García Hernández, in the village of Los Horcones, Langue, Valle, Honduras. "The community is affected by a prolonged drought. We’ve just lost another harvest, it’s gone on for nine years. Winters used to be good, we’d have rain. Now we have years where there’s no water in the streams, the rivers, the wells. We need water, without it we suffer. The crops need water, without it they don’t grow and we don’t get a crop, it’s simple. The trees keep the humidity, but man has chopped down the trees. Now the trees that are left are drying up”.
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  • An indigenous Maya Chortí man during the occupation of land to secure some farmland for the indigenous people.
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  • A young man in Bonfe village, the first village in Guinea to take part in the Ebola vaccine trials that begin in March 2015.
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  • A man with a hat walks along a street in Nebaj
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  • This Q'eqchi man carries a load of firewood he has cut and bundled from Concepción Actelá to Santa Catalina de la Tinta in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. It's two hours walking very fast. With luck he'll get 20 Quetzales, that's $2.60 or £2.00. Then he'll walk home. He carries this very heavy load with a headband called a 'mecapal'.
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  • A man removes the flesh of a coconut on Finca La Alemania, Sucre. Rogelio Martinez, the community leader on this farm, was killed by hooded men a month before the photo was taken.
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  • A man cuts sugar on a sugar cane plantation, near Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil
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  • A portrait of a young man in black and with sunglasses in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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  • Early morning, a young man sleeps on a chair at a corn mill in the Huembes Market in Managua, Nicaragua
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  • Early morning a man cuts plantains at the Huembes Market in Managua, Nicaragua
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  • A man pushes a loaded trolley at  the Huembes Market in Managua, Nicaragua
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  • An elderly man in the Intibucá martket. Berta Cáceres campaigned and organised communities in Intibucá and other areas of Honduras to defend indigenous rights and territories before her assassination.
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  • José Rufino, an indigenous Maya Chortí man in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • Marcos, a Q'eqchi man cleans his corn field of weeds using a machete. Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
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  • A young man loads bananas on a boat in Turbo, Chocó
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  • A man rides a horse across the Carepa river as the waters subside after a night of heavy rainfall.
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  • An elderly man in a black hat stands by a grave on the day of the dead in the Bolivian altiplano
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  • A man pans for gold in a drain on a street used by goldsmiths in Old Dkaha, Bangladesh
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  • A young man shows off his muscles in the meat section. El Mercado Roberto Huembes in Managua, Nicaragua, is a large market with some 7,500 sellers and other workers. It contains many sections such as fresh fruit and veg, meat, fish, iguanas, piñatas, spices, clothes and cooked food and has its own bus station.
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  • Coffee is spread on a drying patio in Honduras
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  • Mario David Perez wears the traditional dress of the Todos los Santos region and carries a basket of freshly picked coffee through a coffee farm. Mario is part of the ACODIHUE group. Asociación de Cooperación al Desarrollo Integral de Huehuetenango, ACODIHUE, is a Fairtrade-certified producer of honey and coffee based in Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • Portraits from Somotillo, Nicaragua. Through the Nicaraguan Lutheran Church, ELCA provides support to innovative projects to help families improve their lives. Improved stoves have been provided, that save on firewood and take smoke out of the kitchen reducing respiratory diseases that have been prevalent.
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  • Pedro José Gonzalez Urbina, cocoa farmer at UNCRISPROCA, La Cruz de Rio Grande, RAAS, Nicaragua. His grandfather fought with Nicaraguan hero General Augusto Sandino.
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  • Cocoa Farmer Catalino Obando Ortega stands under a tree with ripening cocoa pods. UNCRISPROCA is a Fairtrade-certified cocoa producer in the hard-to-reach area of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
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  • Elber Joel Obando Hernández, cocoa producer, La Cruz de Rio Grande, RAAS, Nicaragua
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  • A cocoa farmer travels on horseback at UNCRISPROCA. UNCRISPROCA is a Fairtrade-certified cocoa producer in the hard-to-reach area of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
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  • Cocoa farmer Reymel Alarcon Mendez in a stand of bamboo at UNCRISPROCA. UNCRISPROCA is a Fairtrade-certified cocoa producer in the hard-to-reach area of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
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  • Jesus García walks through a crop of corn he lost during a prolonged drought caused by climate change in Langue, Valle, Honduras
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  • Jesús Alberto Monroy Díaz, postmaster, Copán Ruinas.<br />
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I liked working from an early age. From when I was eight I worked in whatever I could. I used to pass beans to Guatemala, at midnight with a mule, and the next day I’d bring back sugar, because there was no sugar in Honduras, only in Guatemala. Now you can get everything. At that time there weren’t many roads, everything had to be brought on a mule, now everything is modernised and nothing is taken on mules.<br />
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Now I send packages with a barcode. They have the GPS system. The system tells you where the package is. Everything is modernised.<br />
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From the age of 15 I worked cutting yucca plants, in Guatemala. We’d cut chunks of the stem and then in the factory in Guatemala City they’d put on a hormone and colour, and that made is sprout colourful flowers. They’d cover the bits of stem in cement and export them. I worked for three years in that, and then I came back here to work in the post office.<br />
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I worked in Honducor (the post office), Bancrecer (a bank), in the municipality, then in the Customs office at the El Florido border post. While I was there Ricardo Maduro won the Presidency and I had to leave, and I put my papers in to work at the post office again, I’ve now worked here for 22 years.<br />
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My life has been about work, I am happy, and yes, I feel proud.<br />
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A mi me gustaba trabajar desde muy niño. A partir de los ocho años trabajaba en lo que pude. Pasaba frijoles para Guatemala, a medianoche en mula, y el día siguiente a traía azucar, porque no había azucar en Honduras, sólo en Guatemala. Ahora hay de todo aquí. En ese entonces no habían muchas carreterras, había que traer todo en mula, ahora esta todo modernizado y nadie va con mula. <br />
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Ahora mando paquetes con código de barra. Van con un sistema de GPS. El sistema te dice por donde va. Todo esta modernizado.<br />
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De los 15 años de edad me dedicaba a cortar izote, allí en Guatemala. Cortabamos el palo, y allí en la fábrica en la
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  • Jesus the Indigenous Leader<br />
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Jesús Pérez, Corralito, Copán<br />
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"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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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My nephew gave his life for our cause. They assassinated him.<br />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 de Jesús Urquía Lazo<br />
Matamula, Marcala<br />
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Mi esposa murió hace poco, hace siete meses. Le dió un derrame. <br />
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Me dedico a hacer piedrín, a mano. Hay lugares donde lo hacen con maquina, lo hago yo a mano, manualmente. Lo vendo por metro, son 200 paladas en un metro y se vende en 200 Lempiras el metro. Es duro ganar ese dinero. Tengo 65 años. <br />
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My wife died recently, seven months ago. She had a stroke.<br />
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I work making gravel, by hand. There are places where they do it with machines, I do it by hand, manually. I sell it by the metre, there are 200 shovelfuls in a metre and it’s 200 Lempiras a metre. It’s hard to earn that money. I’m 65 years old.
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  • Manuel de Jesús Urquía Lazo<br />
Matamula, Marcala<br />
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Mi esposa murió hace poco, hace siete meses. Le dió un derrame. <br />
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Me dedico a hacer piedrín, a mano. Hay lugares donde lo hacen con maquina, lo hago yo a mano, manualmente. Lo vendo por metro, son 200 paladas en un metro y se vende en 200 Lempiras el metro. Es duro ganar ese dinero. Tengo 65 años. <br />
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My wife died recently, seven months ago. She had a stroke.<br />
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I work making gravel, by hand. There are places where they do it with machines, I do it by hand, manually. I sell it by the metre, there are 200 shovelfuls in a metre and it’s 200 Lempiras a metre. It’s hard to earn that money. I’m 65 years old.
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  • Jesús García, Carrizal Uno, La Paz, Honduras. Jesús was a political prisoner in the 1980s, around the time that Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated, a Catholic who was working for justice and peace, he was disappeared for several days and taken to a military base, he was tortured, and then kept prisoner for 17 months "for preaching the gospel and telling the truth" he says. He was released following a campaign by Amnesty International.
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  • Jesús García, Carrizal Uno, La Paz, Honduras. Jesús was a political prisoner in the 1980s, around the time that Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated, a Catholic who was working for justice and peace, he was disappeared for several days and taken to a military base, he was tortured, and then kept prisoner for 17 months "for preaching the gospel and telling the truth" he says. He was released following a campaign by Amnesty International.
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  • Jesus the Seed Saver<br />
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Jesús Martínez, Quiscamote, Santa Elena, La Paz<br />
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"I don’t remember how old I am. I remember the war. We heard it all happening - the bombs and machine guns, but they never arrived here. Thank God.<br />
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Jesus’ son, who is also a Jesus - Jesús Martínez Vásquez - shows us some multi-coloured corn they are saving for seed. These are open-pollinated varieties of indigenous corn. <br />
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These are seeds that are passed down from generation to generation. Farmers have done this for thousands of years. We save the seeds from the best heads of corn, then we plant them again, when the moon is right, and we’ll get a good harvest of strong corn like the harvest before, as long as it rains.<br />
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We grow black corn, yellow and white, and mixed. We know that the seeds from here like our mountain soil. Corn has grown here in these mountains for hundreds of years. The first problem with the commercial corn seed is that you have to buy them. Well, we don’t have the money. It is very productive, but only the first year, then the second year it’s weaker. It’s so weak it’s not worth saving the seed for the second year.  <br />
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If you want to keep on getting the big hybrid yield, then you need to buy more seed the next year, and the fertilizer and the insecticide. And if you don’t keep your indigenous seeds, then you just have to buy the hybrid seed. So, the best thing is to grow at least some indigenous corn, and keep the seed, or you end up dependent on the seed companies and giving your money to them. Anyway, this is what we use for the tortillas. We eat these with beans, an egg, avocado. We grow two types of beans here, a tiny one and Chinapopo. That’s a tasty bean."
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  • Santos Filadelfo Padilla, 17<br />
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El programa es de apoyar a retornados. Yo llegué hasta la ciudad de México. De allí me deportaron. Yo iba en el autobús, y subieron, no eran policías sino de la migración. Otra gente les contaron a ellos quizás, y subieron. Me bajaron del bus, me llevaron a la garita, y allí me detuvieron. Dormí tres días allí. Y de allí me mandaron a la frontera con Mexico y Guatemala. Me tuvieron allí otros dos días. De allí me regresaron hasta aquí, a San Pedro Sula. Me llevaron al centro de retornados, para menores, hay un montón de camas allí en el Albergue Belén, allí estuve. <br />
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Eso fue hace un año en diciembre. Salí el día 13 de diciembre, ya el 14 iba por Guatemala. Se me quedan los detalles pegados. <br />
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Decidí irme por la pobreza. Uno sufre económicamente. No hay trabajos, no hay empleo. Y tengo bastantes amigos que si llegaron allí, en los estado unidos. Yo iba hacía Carolina del Norte, de mis amistades que están allí, allí están casi todos. Y hay otros en Texas.<br />
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Hay muchas historias de horror. Hay gente que les puede secuestrar o algo. Y hay gente que sufre en el camino porque no tiene que comer. No hay nadie tal vez que les aconseje antes de ir, y van a sufrir en el camino. <br />
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Aquí en Juticalpa tengo familia, soy de afuera, pero tengo familia aquí, y aquí me hablaron de la Federación, que estaban apoyando a migrantes retornados. <br />
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La ayuda consiste en capacitación para mecánica y soldadura. Y con herramientas. Voy a trabajar en mecánica pesada, camiones. Hacen las capacitaciones aquí cerca. <br />
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La vida de mi familia es bastante triste. Perdimos mi papá cuando tenía un año. Nos quitaron terrenos, la casa, quedamos sin nada. Cuando yo tenía siete salí de la escuela y empezé a trabajar, para ayudar a sostener mis hermanos. No teníamos nada.<br />
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Nos han enseñado como hacer el trabajo, cobrar, hacer inventarios. Pienso, con las herramientas que me van a dar, poner mi propio taller aquí en Juticalpa.<br />
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  • Kevin Giovanni Zelaya, 25, Juticalpa<br />
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Me fui para los Estados Unidos, estuve una semana y me deportaron. Supuestamente iba a trabajar, y me agarraron. No me trataron bien, me trataron como delincuente se puede decir. Un trata aquí de quitar los obstáculos en la vida, porque es difícil tener sus propios negocios, su casa, sus cosas, es bien difícil, entonces uno trata de hacer su vida, la vida de sus hijos, y trata de tener una vida nueva en otro país, porque en este país no te dan un apoyo, no te dan una buena educación, y la economía no esta bien entonces no hay buenos trabajos. Solo mire el país, como estamos, así no se puede, es bien difícil. Entonces decidí. Irme. <br />
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Sufrí.<br />
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La delincuencia que estamos sufriendo en este país es exagerado. Empieza con los políticos y los policías. Estamos acabados. Es difícil llegar a tener algo en la vida en este país. Por eso tantas personas deciden irse, por lo mismo, porque no tenemos un empleo, la canasta básica es demasiada alta, el combustible, es una vida muy complicada<br />
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Mi mamá ya no podía darnos más que un tiempo de comida, estaba sacrificado, y ya no. Decidí. Estuve en Mexico, trabajé en lo que sea en Mexico, conocí una chava, ella me ayudó. Por medio de ella conocí un coyote. Me fui por el río, por Michoacán. Sufrí bastante. Caminé mucho, por el desierto. Después de tanto sufrimiento, cuando llegué estaba aliviado, que había llegado con vida. No todo el mundo llega. Me fui donde un primo hermano mío, estaba recuperando allí. El tiene papeles. Apenas estaba recuperando físicamente, de tanto macaneo, de las heridas y la deshidratación, y había perdido mucho peso, estaba muy flaco, cuando me agarró la migra. Muchos no llegan. Muchos se mueren en el camino.<br />
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Iba gente, iban débiles del viaje, que ya no podían, no tenían fuerzas, y no podían con el río. Se iban por el río, no podían, como cruzar. Se iban con hambre, con sueño, golpeados. Una muchacha. Se la llevó el río. Se
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  • Victor Alfonso Escobar Ramos, cocinero, Juticalpa, Olancho<br />
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Por medio de la Federación, gracias a Dios, estamos bien ya.<br />
Yo fui a los estados unidos porque yo tengo familiares allá, en Miami en Florida. <br />
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Tenía mi mamá allá y quería verla, es bien difícil, yo le dije a ella que me quería ir y si me podía ayudar. Así fue cuando me fui la primera vez. Me fui con coyote, fue rápido. Yo lo tomé como una aventura, porque no sufrí en el camino. Sufrí solamente cuando iba cruzando el desierto, porque no hay casas, y son tres días de camino, tres días y tres noches caminando. Se ven muchas cosas allí. Malos olores. Gracias a Dios no me tropezé con ningún cadáver. Pero es bien difícil. Hay gente que sí muere en el intento. Es peligroso.<br />
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Luego me deportaron en 2016. Y me fui sin coyote, por cuenta propia. Sin guía uno tiene que ir preguntando para localizarse, para poder llegar.<br />
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Llegué hasta arriba de Tenosique, en México. Ibamos en un bus, de bus en bus y pagando pasajes. Pidieron papeles, nos bajaron, nos chequearon, entonces nos deportaron. Tuvimos que esperar que se llenara todo el bus para que pudiéramos venir, teníamos que esperar, detenidos. Estuve esperando unos diez días. Se llenó el bus y nos mandaron para Chiapas. Y de Chiapas nos fue a recoger un bus de Honduras. Llegamos a San Pedro. Nos bajaron, nos chequearon a ver si teníamos un record criminal, y me dieron boleto para venir a Olancho. <br />
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Gasté como 11,000 lempiras hasta donde llegué, y no llegué muy lejos. Se gasta bastante en el viaje. Vine sin dinero.<br />
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Tomé la decisión de irme porque no tenía empleo, no tenía apoyo, me tocaba hacer algo. Ya tengo 26 años y me da vergüenza estar pidiendo de mi madre en los estados unidos. Entonces decidí gastar mi dinerito en el viaje a ver si llegaba. <br />
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Mi hermano iba en un bus con alguien que conocía el programa de la Federación para deportados, y cuando vino me contó. <br />
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Nos han dado varias capacitaciones. Estoy haciendo cocina.
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  • Avilio Reyes lives in El Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras. <br />
Because of dought, he's lost his main corn harvest four years in a row. "this harvest is already lost" he said "we'll put the cows in here to feed, at least they'll eat the bit of growth that there was".
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  • Jesus Struggling with Climate Change<br />
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Jesús García Hernández, Los Horcones, Langue, Valle<br />
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"The drought has been going on for ten years. It’s due to climate change. Winters were good before. But now we’ve had years without water here. We’ve got dry streams, rivers and wells. We lose our seeds and fertilizers; we even lose our hope sometimes.<br />
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There are families here who haven’t had a harvest for ten years. We’ve all just lost another harvest. We prepared the soil, put in the seeds and fertilizers and, when the first bit of rain came, the plants began growing. Then the rain stopped. We got nothing. Then the rain came again but it was too late. After ten years of drought the people here have used up their reserves and there’s desperation.<br />
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We’ve had to deepen the wells, but they still dry up. The water is going down - it’s climate change.<br />
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A lot of people have left the area. Some go to work in other places as labourers or security guards or cleaners. And some risk the journey to the States. What else is there to do?"
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  • Marco Rosalio Duarte laughs "Get that horse out of my picture!" <br />
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Marco Rosalio is one of the leaders of the Federation of Pech Tribes in Honduras, I interview him in Pueblo Nuevo Subirana, an hour from Dulce Nombre de Culmí, Olancho, Honduras.<br />
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The village has 850 inhabitants, almost all of them are indigenous Pech. There are only 6,000 Pech people. <br />
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"About a quarter of the people in the village speak Pech as their mother tongue, everyone speaks a bit. Pech is taught now in the schools, but most people communicate with Spanish, particularly the young people."<br />
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"The village is surrounded by forest, mainly broadleaf but some pine. The area is now a protected area, the National Congress recently approved it."<br />
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"There are flaws in the reservation agreement. There are 16 white ladino families inside this new anthropological reservation, they have a bit of money too, and it's harder to move rich people than poor people in this country. It will be very hard to move them."<br />
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"For protecting our area, we are threatened. Some families have entered our territory recently and have cut down forest and burned the trees to make pastures for cattle. Their intention is to make money. Our intention is to protect the environment, the forest, the water. We've made declarations to the police, and those people will go to court. This isn't the normal way of doing things here, a lot of violence is used, that's the mentality here. Berta Cáceres is just one of hundreds of people who've been killed for protecting the environment and indigenous rights. At the moment we have death threats against us for trying to protect the environment and our territory. We insist on the use of law to resolve these problems."
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  • Lázaro Adalid Zablah, Los Charcos, Olancho: I’ve taken part in the programmes with Diaconia (the national partner of World Renew in the region of Olancho) and I’ve taken up everything I’ve been taught. I’ve worked on making unproductive land productive by using conservation agriculture techniques, I’ve worked on diversification, grafting, everything they’ve taught me, I’m using it. We’ve turned useless land, that no one could farm, into productive land, the technique is hard work at first, to make the holes for the compost, but it really works, everyone is impressed.
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  • José Santos deepens his well to find water in El Burrillo, Valle, Honduras. With ongoing drought and irresponsible management of water resources by commercial agriculture, the water table has dropped and this has brought water scarcity for many villages and subsitence farmers.
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  • Salvador Hernandez in Piedras Negras, Santa Barbara, Honduras, working on beehives in a community project that produces honey, beeswax and royal jelly. Produce is consumed in the community and sold in local markets. The project, that is part of a broader regional programme on food production and nutrition, is supported by CWS through CASM.
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  • Miguel Angel Rivera, prize-winning coffee cupper at the COAQUIL cooperative in Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras.
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  • Anibal Molina, coffee producer for COAQUIL cooperative in Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras. Anibal migrated to the US for 12 years and worked in the catering industry. Despite difficulties he returned to Honduras to farm coffee, and is a Fairtrade-certified producer.
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  • At the COAQUIL cooperative, coffee is spread on the drying patio
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  • A coffee picker working in Intibucá, Honduras
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  • Cocoa fermentation takes place in these staggered fermentation boxes, each batch passing down one step each day until it is spread out for drying.
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  • in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, a Maya-Chortí farmer rests against an adobe wall. 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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  • Juan García Gonzalez working on his corn field  in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, Mr Garcia is part of the Indigenous Council here. 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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  • Parchment coffee is spread on the drying patio at Rio Azul coop. Rio Azul Cooperative is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • Manuel Guarchaj, President of the Nahuala coop stands in a small coffee plantation.
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  • Manuel Guarchaj, President of the Nahuala coop on his way to beehives with a smoke box.
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  • A coop worker shovels worm compost made with coffee pulp. This compost produces good fertiliser which is used across the coop, and it deals in a safe way with the byproducts of the coffee production process.
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  • Eugenio Colóp produces traditional depulping machines made of wood in Santo Tomás, where the Nahualá coffee coop is located.
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  • In La Flor, near Somotillo, water scarcity because of the persistent drought continues to cause major difficulties for people living there. Through the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua, ELCA has run several projects aimed at dealing with the difficulty. A deep well has been drilled and a solar-powered pump unit set up to pump water from around 45m depth. This water provides neighbours with water for drinking and washing.
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  • Elvin Alvarez cocoa farmer travels by canoe along the Rio Grande to reach a cocoa farm at UNCRIPROCA a Fairtrade-certified cocoa producer in the hard-to-reach area of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua. La Cruz de Rio Grande, RAAS, Nicaragua.
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  • Cocoa Farmer Catalino Obando Ortega stands beside a huge tree on his farm. Illegal logging in the area has cut down most of the large trees in the area, Fairtrade promotes ecological conservation. UNCRISPROCA is a Fairtrade-certified cocoa producer in the hard-to-reach area of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
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  • Cocoa farmer Francisco Mendoza Obando works in his cocoa nursery. UNCRISPROCA is a Fairtrade-certified cocoa producer in the hard-to-reach area of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
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  • Cocoa Farmer Catalino Obando Ortega stands beside a huge tree on his farm. Illegal logging in the area has cut down most of the large trees in the area, Fairtrade promotes ecological conservation. UNCRISPROCA is a Fairtrade-certified cocoa producer in the hard-to-reach area of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
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  • Cocoa Farmer Catalino Obando Ortega walks along the banks of the Rio Grande on the way to his farm. UNCRISPROCA is a Fairtrade-certified cocoa producer in the hard-to-reach area of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
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  • Juan Pérez is a carpenter building a new community centre at UNCRISPROCA. UNCRISPROCA is a Fairtrade-certified cocoa producer in the hard-to-reach area of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
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  • Cocoa farmer Elvin draws water from his well at La Cruz de Rio Grande. UNCRISPROCA is a Fairtrade-certified cocoa producer in the hard-to-reach area of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
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  • Jesús López, 17. Gangster. "I was sentenced to four and a half years prison for extortion. I've been inside for seven months and 17 days. I'll get out when I'm 22.When I was nine years old I used to go to a church called the Ministry of God's Beloved. But I had to work at that age, to survive economically. But it was hard at home, there were many problems, and I decided to leave home. My aunts would fight over the food, and well, they weren't my parents, and I didn't want to obey them, so I left, and I joined the gang. At ten years old I was taking drugs. I began murdering at age 12. I would kill kids of my own age, to keep in with the gang. In the gang that's something that's normal. When I was 14 I began stealing cars, carrying weapons, but by 16 I got into extortion, I would distribute people across neighbourhoods in Tegucigalpa to carry out the extortions. One of my children died, and my life went further out of control, I did more and more in the gang. I am here in this centre, and I'm trying to get some of the shit out of my head. I want to study, and maybe become a soldier. Before, you could leave the gang if you joined an evangelical church, but the gang is evolving, and now you can't leave unless you are dead. I'm alive, I'm still breathing, and I'm asking God for another chance."
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