Gustav Arvidsson’s Photos of Landless Peasants in Colombia

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Land and Loss in Colombia

A farmer without land is not a farmer, one landless peasant told Gustav Arvidsson, who has been documenting the plight of Colombians forced off their land through bureaucracy, chicanery and force.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/land-and-loss-in-colombia/

Gustav Arvidsson has been following the plight of landless peasants in Colombia, where bureaucracy, chicanery and deadly force have been used to dislodge entire villages of subsistence farmers