Interview with Committee of Peasant Development (CODECA) of Guatemala [Spanish episode]

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 and genocide, resistance to resource privatization and land concentration by the national oligarchy and transnational corporations, and the promotion of a vision for a Plurinational State. With 29 movement leaders assassinated since 2018 and hundreds more incarcerated, threatened and assaulted, the organization faces intense political persecution in the country. The following interview was conducted during the Global Antifascist Student and Youth Conference held in Caracas, Venezuela in November 2025. Isa Villalón from the Latin American Solidarity Committee spoke with three youth leaders for the organization, each representing CODECA’s struggle in different national territories: Jutiapa, Suchitepéquez, and the urban hub of Guatemala City. ---Follow AIN: Our website — https://anti-imperialist.net/Our current fundraising campaigns — https://givebutter.com/southbound-initiativeInstagram — https://www.instagram.com/antiimperialistnetwork/Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/6GTgPtZ8etV1jnDFO6JsJfGet involved — https://anti-imperialist.net/join/