Event Title
Migrating Towards Justice: Stories to Transform People and Policy
Description
“For me, free trade agreements, neoliberal policies and the conditions on the aid from the international financial institutions have brought our country to extreme poverty. And the people, the rural farmers, are desperate and don't have any another alternative than to migrate to countries such as Costa Rica, Spain and the United States, with the only objective to work for their families. In my community, El Regadío, they installed a tobacco factory that is under the free trade zone, which generates employment, but the salaries are miserable and it is provoking a great contamination of our environment, principally to our water supply. It is also causing many diseases, of the skin and the organs of mainly women and children. The worst is that some farmers are selling their land to cultivate tobacco. This is causing less production of food, because the producers have dedicated their land to cultivating tobacco and this only serves to harm our health not to feed us."- Augusto Obregon
About the Lecturer: Augusto Obregon, community leader and activist of El Regadío, Estelí Nicaraguan
Document Type
Event
Start Date
3-11-2010 12:00 PM
End Date
3-11-2010 1:15 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Free trade--Nicaragua; Tobacco farms--Environmental aspects; Farmers--Economic conditions; Foreign workers, Nicaraguan; Social justice--Nicaragua
Geographic Coverage
Nicaragua--Health and hygiene
Type
Moving image
Keywords
Nicaragua, Justice for farmers, Free trade policies
Rights
This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws.
Language
English
Format
video/mp4
Migrating Towards Justice: Stories to Transform People and Policy
Fairhaven College Auditorium
“For me, free trade agreements, neoliberal policies and the conditions on the aid from the international financial institutions have brought our country to extreme poverty. And the people, the rural farmers, are desperate and don't have any another alternative than to migrate to countries such as Costa Rica, Spain and the United States, with the only objective to work for their families. In my community, El Regadío, they installed a tobacco factory that is under the free trade zone, which generates employment, but the salaries are miserable and it is provoking a great contamination of our environment, principally to our water supply. It is also causing many diseases, of the skin and the organs of mainly women and children. The worst is that some farmers are selling their land to cultivate tobacco. This is causing less production of food, because the producers have dedicated their land to cultivating tobacco and this only serves to harm our health not to feed us."- Augusto Obregon
About the Lecturer: Augusto Obregon, community leader and activist of El Regadío, Estelí Nicaraguan
