By Alex Pietrowski — Waking Times, 19 October 2015
Photo Credit: Cristina Chiquin
Source: http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/10/19/indigenous-mayans-win-stunning-repeal-of-hated-monsanto-law/
The success of the Guatemalan people in defending their food sovereignty and stopping “Monsanto Law” is an inspiring example that people, when united, can overpower even the largest of corporations.
A new law was passed in Guatemala in June 2015 that would have given exclusivity on patented seeds to a handful of transnational companies such as Monsanto. The opposition brought together a diverse set of people from across the Central American nation. Trade unions and farmers, social movements, women’s organizations and Mayan indigenous people took to the streets outside of the Congress and Constitutional Court in Guatemala City to protest the Monsanto Law and to show their disdain for the role that GMO seeds and their patent holders would now play in Guatemala.
On September 2, a large group of Mayan indigenous people blocked several streets in front of the Congress and demanded the immediate overturn of the law. Coinciding with several court injunctions in order to stop the new law from taking effect, the peaceful protests finally ended on September 4, 2015, after ten days, when the Congress of Guatemala repealed the law.
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[…] victories in the movement against Monsanto. For example, recently, a group of Mayans in Guatemala successfully pressured the government to repeal a law that gave biotechnological corporations the right to patent seeds. All around the […]