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Podcast: Anti-Imperialist Network Podcast
Episode: Interview with Committee of Peasant Development (CODECA) of Guatemala [Spanish episode]
Description: Interview conducted by Isa Villalón. The Committee of Peasant Development, CODECA (Comité de Desarrollo Campesino) was founded in Guatemala in 1992 within the context of the Central America Peace Accords and the rise of neoliberal accumulation. CODECA organizes to resist the deepening onslaught of extractivist imperial plunder driven by those developments, which has opened the door to new forms of violent dispossession and exploitation. CODECA has been instrumental in organizing grassroots resistance and agitating for popular political education. Their struggle for anti-capitalist, systemic changes includes agrarian reform, justice for historical crimes committed during the US backed 36-year-long internal conflict an...