HONDURAS The violence against peasant families now has a financial cost for the perpetrators http://quotha.net/node/1730

The decision by the German Investment and Development Bank (DEG) -a member of the Reconstruction Credit Institute (KfW Bankengruppe - to cancel a US$ 20 million investment granted to the company Corporación Dinant, owned by palm producer and landowner Miguel Facussé Barjum, has set a significant precedent for the future of thousands of peasant families in Bajo Aguán who live under a constant assault on their rights. To gain insight on the context this decision was adopted in, SIREL spoke with Martin Wolpold-Bosien, FIAN International’s coordinator for Central America.