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Comité de Unidad Campesina/Peasant Unity Committee (CUC)

CUC has played a critical role in uniting movements across diverse sectors and organizations in Guatemala – including peasants, Indigenous Peoples, women and youth – to advance structural changes toward social justice.

The Comité de Unidad Campesina/Peasant Unity Committee (CUC) was created in 1978 and is the first national organization formed by peasants and Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala. CUC works in over 200 communities and six micro-regions of the country to defend the land, water and food rights of impoverished peasants in Guatemala, primarily in communities facing displacement or environmental damage by mining, dam, and industrial agriculture corporations.

CUC is a member of the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC) and La Via Campesina. It is currently working to build an Indigenous and Peasant Agroecological and Political Organizing School to recover ancestral knowledge and practices and strengthen movement organizing. CUC is also working to strengthen organizing among Indigenous peasant women through a project promoting agroecological family gardens. This is connected to broader work by CUC around grassroots feminisms.

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