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Demands for Rights and Confrontations in the Rio Blanco Project

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This chapter is devoted to the patterns and causes of corporate-community relations in the Rio Blanco case. In this case corporate-community relations are primarily characterized by confrontation. The first section shows how relatively strong peasant organizations emerged as a consequence of the contestations with the state over territorial control. The second and the third sections analyze the initial interactions with the corporation, demonstrating how the corporation employed a coercive form of patronage to advance the project. Peasant organizations responded forcefully to these strategies. Overall, the chapter shows the importance of broader political coalitions and non-state actors for communities to be able to engage in a sustained struggle opposing a project.

The massacre in Rio Blanco should not be left unpunished. We demand justice.

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Gustafsson, MT. (2018). Demands for Rights and Confrontations in the Rio Blanco Project. In: Private Politics and Peasant Mobilization. Development, Justice and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60756-6_3

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