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  • 2014/11/20 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: 22 million hectares of land were planted this year in Argentina with soy. These are two-thirds of the available arable land. A tractor pulls a seeding machine that is dropping soy seeds on a field in the Monte Maiz region. Only one tractor can seed 100 hectares on a single day. Production is almost completely automatized and in many cases with the right machines only one man is needed to do all the work, creating massive unemployment in the area. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/20 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: 22 million hectares of land were planted this year in Argentina with soy. These are two-thirds of the available arable land. A seeding machine seen from behind is dropping soy seeds on a field in the Monte Maiz region. Only one machine like this can seed 100 hectares on a single day. Production is almost completely automoatized and in many cases with the right machines only one man is needed to the all the work, creating massive unemployment in the area. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/20 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: 22 million hectares of land were planted this year in Argentina with soy. These are two-thirds of the available arable land. A tractor pulls a seeding machine that is dropping soy seeds on a field in the Monte Maiz region. Only one tractor can seed 100 hectares on a single day. Production is almost completely automatized and in many cases with the right machines only one man is needed to do all the work, creating massive unemployment in the area. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: Farm Santo António owned by Reiter & Söhne S.R.L. Many of the soy farms are owned by foreign companies that have headquarters in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires. Once national and foreign companies realize the margin of profit that could be made with soy, they start investing heavily in acquiring massive portions of land from high fertile region of Cordoba to the swapzone of Santiago de Estero Province. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22- Quimili, Argentina: A poster on the headquarters of the National Movement of Indigenous Farmers (MOCASE) in Quimili, shows how the intensive soya agriculture is a danger to the life of the people. MOCASE is association that fights the intensive agriculture that is happening in Argentina, the despoil of indigenous people of their land and the destruction of forests and wildlife areas. They defend a more sustainable agriculture process. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: Silos next to the desactivated train station of Monte Maiz. Silos used to store grains are located in the middle of the town of Monte Maiz, causing many respiratory diseases to the residents. Silos used to be built in the town centres because of the easy access to the railway, but for decades the railways in Argentina were deactivated and now trucks transport the crops. Even if they don’t need to be located in the centre of towns is too expensive to move them to another location. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: Silos used to store grains are located in the middle of the town of Monte Maiz, causing many respiratory diseases to the residents. Silos used to be built in the town centres because of the easy access to the railway, but for decades the railways in Argentina were deactivated and now trucks transport the crops. Even if they don’t need to be located in the centre of towns is too expensive to move them to another location. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: Silos used to store grains are located in the middle of the town of Monte Maiz, causing many respiratory diseases to the residents. Silos used to be built in the town centres because of the easy access to the railway, but for decades the railways in Argentina were deactivated and now trucks transport the crops. Even if they don’t need to be located in the centre of towns is too expensive to move them to another location. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: Silos used to store grains are located in the middle of the town of Monte Maiz, causing many respiratory diseases to the residents. Silos used to be built in the town centres because of the easy access to the railway, but for decades the railways in Argentina were deactivated and now trucks transport the crops. Even if they don’t need to be located in the centre of towns is too expensive to move them to another location. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: Antónia Alaris (36) sits in her living-room next to an altar in memory to her daughter, Antonella Fuentes, who was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a cancerous bone tumor, at the age of 6. She died a few months later.  The cases of cancer grew exponentially in the area since the introduction of glyphosate on the soy cultivation.  707 <br />
Cancer cases per 100,000 pepople were register by health researchers in the core area of soybean cultivation. These are three times as many  as the national average. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: Claúdio Fuentes (34) and Antónia Alaris (36) with their son Axel David Fuentes (8) in front of the soya field that faces their home in Monte Maiz. Their daughter, Antonella Fuentes, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a cancerous bone tumor, at the age of 6. She died a few months later.  The cases of cancer grew exponentially in the area since the introduction of glyphosate on the soy cultivation.  707 <br />
Cancer cases per 100,000 pepople were register by health researchers in the core area of soybean cultivation. These are three times as many  as the national average. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: Claúdio Fuentes (34) and Antónia Alaris (36) with their son Axel David Fuentes (8) in front of the soy field that faces their home in Monte Maiz. Their daughter, Antonella Fuentes, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a cancerous bone tumor, at the age of 6. She died a few months later.  The cases of cancer grew exponentially in the area since the introduction of glyphosate on the soy cultivation.  707 <br />
Cancer cases per 100,000 pepople were register by health researchers in the core area of soybean cultivation. These are three times as many  as the national average. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: Drawing of a child in the hospital made by Axel David Fuentes (8), during the interview with the Fuentes family. Axel Fuentes followed closely the sickness of his sister until the end. His sister, Antonella Fuentes, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a cancerous bone tumor, at the age of 6. She died a few months later.  The cases of cancer grew exponentially in the area since the introduction of glyphosate on the soy cultivation.  707 <br />
Cancer cases per 100,000 pepople were register by health researchers in the core area of soybean cultivation. These are three times as many  as the national average. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: A “mosquito”, term used to name the machine that pulverizes the glyphosate on the soy cultivation, is parked next to a house in the town of Monte Maiz. Many residents complain that parking pulverization machines and storing chemicals inside town and next to houses grows the risk of cancer and other related diseases. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/24 – El Colorado, Argentina: Jorge Gomez (51) in his house with his wife. Jorge is what you can call the Mayor of the El Colorado village, close to Quimili in Santiago de Estero Province. He is also a farmer but doesn’t support the massive soy cultivation, since he claims it is destroying the soils and their future, and also getting everyone in the village ill because of the fumigations with glysophate. El Colorado is surrounded by soy fields and most of the population is depent on them to make a living. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/24 – El Colorado, Argentina: Marta (58) and Victoria (57) Ibarra are sisters and also the teachers of Primary School of El Colorado. They are against the soya cultivation and the usage of the glysophate on the fields. They are fighting against it for years, which they claim it is a tough process but slowly they are managing to win some support to their cause. They managed that airplanes stop fumigating close to the village. Unlike most people of El Colorado, they can speak about it because their income doesn’t depend on the soy cultivation, like most of the village population. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/24 – El Colorado, Argentina: Jorge Gomez (51) is what you can call the Mayor of the El Colorado village, close to Quimili in Santiago de Estero Province. He is also a farmer but doesn’t support the massive soy cultivation, since he claims it is destroying the soils and their future, and also getting everyone in the village ill because of the fumigations with glysophate. El Colorado is surrounded by soya fields and most of the population is depent on them to make a living. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: The contrast of two realities. On the left side a cultivation field fumigated with glyphosate with no life is ready to be planted with soy seeds and on right side a piece of land owned by the indigenous community with a pristine forest.  The region around Quimili on the Santiago Estero Province is being vastly converted from forestland into fields to produce soy, detroying the habitats for local species and indigenous people. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: From left to right, members of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community: Raúl Eduardo Leal (56),  Pedro Campos (50),  Jorge Orellano (54), Basualdo Orellano (48) and Paulo Esteban (48) sit on some cut down trees where current deforestation  is taking place around the Bajo Hondo community. They say that in a few weeks all that forest will be replaced by more cultivation fields. The region around Quimili on the Santiago Estero Province is being vastly converted from forestland into fields to produce soya, detroying the habitats for local species and indigenous people. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: Raúl Eduardo Leal (56), a member of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community of Bajo Hondo, shows parts of the deforestation around his community. He told that in a few weeks all that forest will be replaced by more cultivation fields. The region around Quimili on the Santiago Estero Province is being vastly converted from forestland into fields to produce soy, detroying the habitats for local species and indigenous people. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: Members of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community walk through a path in the forest made by a bulldozer. The process of deforestation consists in create small alleys on the forest which allows then to clear the vegetation easily. The region around Quimili on the Santiago Estero Province is being vastly converted from forestland into fields to produce soy, detroying the habitats for local species and indigenous people. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: A forest in the area of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community of Bajo Hondo is being chopped down in order to create space for cultivation fields, which most of them are exclusively for soy plantations. The region around Quimili on the Santiago Estero Province is being vastly converted from forestland into fields to produce soy, detroying the habitats for local species and indigenous people. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: Juan Yedro (44) drinks mate, a traditional South American caffeine-rich infused drink while he spends time with his daughters Jenny Yedro (7) and Janet Yedro (2) at his home in allotment 4 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. The people in the area are being threaten by soy producers that see their land as an opportunity to grow more of the crop. On the otherhand indigenous defend a sustainable agriculture and to live in harmony with the nature. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: Felicita Carrizo, 44 spends time with her daughters Jenny Yedro (7) and Janet Yedro (2) at her home in allotment 4 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. The people in the area are being threaten by soy producers that see their land as an opportunity to grow more of the crop. On the otherhand indigenous defend a sustainable agriculture and to live in harmony with the nature. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: Juana Orellana (51), the wife of Raúl Eduardo Leal, feeds with a baby bottle a little goat that she found lost on the street the day before. Indigenous people defend a sustainable agriculture and to live in harmony with the nature. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: Raúl Eduardo Leal (56) talks with member of his community Paulo Esteban (48) and Juan Yedro (44) at his house on the Guaycurú Indigenous Community of Bajo Hondo. He complains how the soy producers are deforestation the area around his community. The region around Quimili on the Santiago Estero Province is being vastly converted from forestland into fields to produce soy, detroying the habitats for local species and indigenous people. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: Raúl Eduardo Leal (56) in his house  with his dog during siesta time at the Guaycurú Indigenous Community of Bajo Hondo. He complains how the soya producers are deforestation the area around his community. The region around Quimili on the Santiago Estero Province is being vastly converted from forestland into fields to produce soy, detroying the habitats for local species and indigenous people. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: A field without life, only the far away trees are proof that once on this meadow existed a forest and abundant wildlife. Every tree was chopped down to give space to cultivation fields, which mostly are for soy. The white wastage on the ground are rests of cotton that was previously grown. Farmers need to rotate crops in order to keep the sustainability of the soil. (Eduardoa Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: A field without life, only a couple of trees are proof that once on this meadow existed a forest and abundant wildlife. All was chopped down to give space to cultivation fields, which mostly are for soy. The white wastage on the ground are rests of cotton that was previously grown. Farmers need to rotate crops in order to keep the sustainability of the soil. (Eduardoa Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: A hennery and a traditional push kart on the backyard of the Yedro's family in allotment number 4 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. The people in the area are being threaten by soy producers that see their land as an opportunity to grow more of the crop. On the otherhand indigenous defend a sustainable agriculture and to live in harmony with the nature. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: Salto Rosa Graciela (41) and her daughter Carina Maribel Salto (15), suffer both of health problems due to the soya plantantions close to their house in the allotment number 4 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. Many health related illness like cancer, respiratory diseases and suddenly abortions accur in areas where soy is cultivated. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: Salto Rosa Graciela (41) and her daughter Carina Maribel Salto (15), suffer both of health problems due to the soya plantantions close to their house in the allotment number 4 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. Many health related illness like cancer, respiratory diseases and suddenly abortions accur in areas where soy is cultivated. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: Salto Rosa Graciela (41), talks about her health problems due to the soy plantantions close to her house in the allotment number 4 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. Many health related illness like cancer, respiratory diseases and suddenly abortions accur in areas where soy is cultivated. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: One of the houses in the allotment number 5 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. Many of the Guaycurú population still live in a traditional way with houses made of cob, a mixture of compressed clay and straw and surrounded by animals. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Santo Ramón Gonzales (35), talks during a community meeting of the allotment number 5 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. He complains that soy producers are doing everything they can to expel his community out of their land. He says they use many different tactics like: pulverize their homes, fields and animals with glyphosate, threatening them with weapons and even claim with fake paperwork that they own the land. The indigenous people in the area are being threaten by soy producers that see their land as an opportunity to grow more of the crop. On the otherhand indigenous defend a sustainable agriculture and to live in harmony with the nature. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Santo Ramón Gonzales (35), sits on his backyard. He complains that soy producers are doing everything they can to expel his community out of their land. He says they use many different tactics like: pulverize their homes, fields and animals with glyphosate, threatening them with weapons and even claim with fake paperwork that they own the land. The indigenous people in the area are being threaten by soy producers that see their land as an opportunity to grow more of the crop. On the otherhand indigenous defend a sustainable agriculture and to live in harmony with the nature. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: The community of allotment number 5 gets together to discuss community problems in front of the house Simone Dominguez.  Just in front of her house there is the main road and on the other side a field where soy is produced. Mrs. Simone Dominguez complains that airplanes used to pulverize her house with glyphosate, in order to make her feel unsafe and abandon her land. The indigenous people in the area are being threaten by soy producers that see their land as an opportunity to grow more of the crop. On the otherhand indigenous defend a sustainable agriculture and to live in harmony with the nature. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Santo Ramón Gonzales (35), sits on his backyard. He complains that soy producers are doing everything they can to expel his community out of their land. He says they use many different tactics like: pulverize their homes, fields and animals with glyphosate, threatening them with weapons and even claim with fake paperwork that they own the land. The indigenous people in the area are being threaten by soy producers that see their land as an opportunity to grow more of the crop. On the otherhand indigenous defend a sustainable agriculture and to live in harmony with the nature. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Maite Sousa (12), Franco David Sousa (14) at the window of their house in in the allotment number 5 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. A few weeks before armed men belonging to soy groups forced entry and threaten them when they were alone in the house with a friend. The men force them to take a few valuable belongings while they destroy other material stuff and told them to never come back. Due to the help of neighbours of the community the family was able to scare the men away and recover their house. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Catalina Barraza (56), Pedro Sousa (59), Maite Sousa (12), Franco David Sousa (14) and Silvio Daniel Sousa (23), in front of their house in in the allotment number 5 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. A few weeks before armed men belonging to soya groups forced entry and threaten the younger children of the family, Maite and Franco, that were alone in the house with a friend. They force them to take a few valuable belongings while the men destroyed other material stuff and told them to never come back. Due to the help of neighbours of the community the family was able to scare them away and recover their house. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Catalina Barraza (56), Pedro Sousa (59), Maite Sousa (12), Franco David Sousa (14) and Silvio Daniel Sousa (23), in front of their house in in the allotment number 5 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. A few weeks before armed men belonging to soya groups forced entry and threaten the younger children of the family, Maite and Franco, that were alone in the house with a friend. They force them to take a few valuable belongings while the men destroyed other material stuff and told them to never come back. Due to the help of neighbours of the community the family was able to scare them away and recover their house. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Lautero Carrizo (8), plays in the backyard of his house. Children run and play with total freedom during the day in the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: A wooden woven where the family of Mrs. Simone Rodriguez cooks the family meals everyday. Many of the Guaycurú population still live in a traditional way with houses made of cob, a mixture of compressed clay and straw and surrounded by animals. They are mostly farmers and hunters. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: The entry of one of the houses in the allotment number 5 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. Many of the Guaycurú population still live in a traditional way with houses made of cob, a mixture of compressed clay and straw and surrounded by animals. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: The entry of one of the houses in the allotment number 5 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. Many of the Guaycurú population still live in a traditional way with houses made of cob, a mixture of compressed clay and straw and surrounded by animals. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Lautero Carrizo (8), plays with an iguana in the backyard of his house at allotment number 5 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. People in the region considers iguanas a tidbit, which make them widely appreciated. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: A doll sits on top of containers with gasoline. Children play freely in the Guaycurú Indigenous Community, but sometimes dangerous are closer than you will imagine. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Gonzalo Carrizo (14) holds a Tucura, or giant lobster, as local people commonly call it. The Tucura’s are a huge plague that is eating most of the endemic plants of the region. Simone Dominguez (67), claims that they came with the soya inside of a trucks. Until 14 years ago there weren’t any giant lobsters in the region. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Simone Dominguez (67) in front of her house in the allotment number 5 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community.  She complains that airplanes used to pulverize her house with glyphosate, in order to make her feel unsafe and abandon her land. The indigenous people in the area are being threaten by soy producers that see their land as an opportunity to grow more of the crop. On the otherhand indigenous defend a sustainable agriculture and to live in harmony with the nature. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Simone Dominguez (67) speaks with her daughter, Fabiana Carrizo (40) regarding the airplanes used to pulverize her house with glyphosate, in order to make her feel unsafe and to force her to abandon the land where she lives at allotment number 5 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. The indigenous people in the area are being threaten by soy producers that see their land as an opportunity to grow more of the crop. On the otherhand indigenous defend a sustainable agriculture and to live in harmony with the nature. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: The warehouses of a company annoucing deforestation. The region around Quimili on the Santiago de Estero Province is being vastly converted from forestland into fields to produce soy, detroying the habitats for local species and indigenous people. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Gonzalo Carrizo (14), plays marbles while is sister watchs it in their house at allotment number 5 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. The indigenous people in the area are being threaten by soy producers that see their land as an opportunity to grow more of the crop. On the otherhand indigenous defend a sustainable agriculture and to live in harmony with the nature. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Ricardo “Gaucho”, a member of the National Movement of Indigenous Farmers (MOCASE), points to the trees showing that the part facing the cultivation field are dying because of the usage of glyphosate during the production of soy. Many teachers complain that the school sometimes is also pulverized by glyphosate during the soy season putting in risk the children that study in the school. This is not an isolated case, many of the schools in the region are next to plantation fields. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/21 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: A farm in Monte Maiz is flooded after rainfall. Floods are really common nowadays in the region, because the soil can’t absorb much water since pesticides make it harder and less absorvent. Another reason is that soya needs less water than other crops, so the water under the soil its just a mere 30cm from the surface making floods common when rainfalls. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/21 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: A farm in Monte Maiz is flooded after rainfall. Floods are really common nowadays in the region, because the soil can’t absorb much water since pesticides make it harder and less absorvent. Another reason is that soya needs less water than other crops, so the water under the soil its just a mere 30cm from the surface making floods common when rainfalls. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/21 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: A field where soy is usually planted is flooded after rainfall. Floods are really common nowadays in the region, because the soil can’t absorb much water since pesticides make it harder and less absorvent. Another reason is that soy needs less water than other crops, so the water under the soil its just a mere 30cm from the surface making floods common when rainfalls. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/21 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: A field where soy is usually planted is flooded after rainfall. Floods are really common nowadays in the region, because the soil can’t absorb much water since pesticides make it harder and less absorvent. Another reason is that soy needs less water than other crops, so the water under the soil its just a mere 30cm from the surface making floods common when rainfalls. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/20 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: Mr. Domingos (39) checks on the computers of tractor the amount of seeds that are droped by the seeding machine. Mr. Domingos only need to check if everything is going as it was planned and turn the tractor at the end of the field, all the rest is completely computarized. Only one tractor can seed 100 hectares on a single day. Production is almost completely automoatized and in many cases with the right machines only one man is needed to the all the work, creating massive unemployment in the area. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/20 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: Soy plants on an initial stage surrended be lost soya seeds on a field in the Monte Maiz region. Soy is usually seeded in the months of October/November and is harvested in March/April. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/20 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: A silo bag on a field in the region of Monte Maiz. Silo bags are more economic to storage previous harvests. Each silo can hold from 100 to 200 tones of soy depending on their size. Large scale producers tend to hold on their harvests until the price of soy reachs a satisfiying price, meanwhile small producers can’t hold to them and have to sell it immediately to cover the costs of production. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/20 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: Lines of soy plants grow on a field in the Monte Maiz region. Soy is usually seeded in the months of October/November and is harvested in March/April. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: Agro-chemicals containers piled in the landfill of Monte Maiz. There isn’t any plan to collect or to storage used agro-chemical containers, so they are just sent to the landfill and mixed with normal garbage or chucked away. Many of them still contain residues of the pesticides, which will contaminate the environment and the water of the region. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: Agro-chemicals container in the landfill of Monte Maiz. There isn’t any plan to collect or to storage used agro-chemical containers, so they are just sent to the landfill and mixed with normal garbage or chucked away. Many of them still contain residues of the pesticides, which will contaminate the environment and the water of the region. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: Agro-chemicals chucked away on the landfill of Monte Maiz, while people look for cardboard in the garbage to sell. There isn’t any plan to collect or to storage used agro-chemical containers, so they are just sent to the landfill and mixed with normal garbage or chucked away. Many of them still contain residues of the pesticides, which will contaminate the environment, the water of the region and anyone that will enter in contact with it without protection. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: Agro-chemicals containers piled in the landfill of Monte Maiz. There isn’t any plan to collect or to storage used agro-chemical containers, so they are just sent to the landfill and mixed with normal garbage or chucked away. Many of them still contain residues of the pesticides, which will contaminate the environment and the water of the region. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: A “mosquito”, term used to name the machine that pulverizes the glyphosate on the soy cultivations, is parked next to the main road in the town of Monte Maiz. Many residents complain that parking pulverization machines inside town and next to houses grows the risk of cancer and other related diseases. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: A “mosquito”, term used to name the machine that pulverizes the glyphosate on the soy cultivation, is parked next to a house in the town of Monte Maiz. Many residents complain that parking pulverization machines and storing chemicals inside town and next to houses grows the risk of cancer and other related diseases. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/17 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: Residents of Monte Maiz gather at the Pensioners Center to discuss with an agronomist the potential effects that agro-chemicals can have on public health. The cases of cancer grew exponentially in the area since the introduction of glyphosate on the soy cultivation. 707 <br />
Cancer cases per 100,000 pepople were register by health researchers in the core area of soybean cultivation. These are three times as many  as the national average. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/24 – Santiago de Estero Province, Argentina: A field fumigated with glysophate, where nothing lives inclusive the surrounding trees. Only the soy seeds which were genetic modified can survive to the pestice. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/24 – El Colorado, Argentina: Marta (58) and Victoria (57) Ibarra are sisters and also the teachers of Primary School of El Colorado. They are against the soya cultivation and the usage of the glysophate on the fields. They are fighting against it for years, which they claim it is a tough process but slowly they are managing to win some support to their cause. They managed that airplanes stop fumigating close to the village. Unlike most people of El Colorado, they can speak about it because their income doesn’t depend on the soy cultivation, like most of the village population. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: A path in the forest made by a bulldozer. The process of deforestation consists in create small alleys on the forest which allows then to clear the vegetation easily. The region around Quimili on the Santiago Estero Province is being vastly converted from forestland into fields to produce soy, detroying the habitats for local species and indigenous people. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: A forest in the area of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community of Bajo Hondo is being chopped down in order to create space for cultivation fields, which most of them are exclusively for soy plantations. The region around Quimili on the Santiago Estero Province is being vastly converted from forestland into fields to produce soy, detroying the habitats for local species and indigenous people. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: Raúl Eduardo Leal (56) in his house  during siesta time at the Guaycurú Indigenous Community of Bajo Hondo. He complains how the soy producers are deforestation the area around his community. The region around Quimili on the Santiago Estero Province is being vastly converted from forestland into fields to produce soy, detroying the habitats for local species and indigenous people. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/23 – Quimili, Argentina: Salto Rosa Graciela (41) and her daughter Carina Maribel Salto (15), suffer both of health problems due to the soya plantantions close to their house in the allotment number 4 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. Many health related illness like cancer, respiratory diseases and suddenly abortions accur in areas where soy is cultivated. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Maite Sousa (12), Franco David Sousa (14) at the window of their house in in the allotment number 5 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. A few weeks before armed men belonging to soy groups forced entry and threaten them when they were alone in the house with a friend. The men force them to take a few valuable belongings while they destroyed other material stuff and told them to never come back. Due to the help of neighbours of the community the family was able to scare the men away and recover their house. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Simone Dominguez (67) sits outside her house in the allotment number 5 of the Guaycurú Indigenous Community. She complains that planes used to pulverize her house with glyphosate, in order to make her feel unsafe and abandon her land. The indigenous people in the area are being threaten by soya producers that see their land as an opportunity to grow more of the crop. On the otherhand indigenous defend a sustainable agriculture and to live in harmony with the nature. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/22 – Quimili, Argentina: Primary school number 666 in the outskirts Quimili is faced by a soya field. Many teachers complain that the school sometimes is also pulverized by glyphosate during the soya season putting in risk the children that study there. This is not an isolated case, many of the schools in the region are next to plantation fields. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/21 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: A farm in Monte Maiz is flooded after rainfall. Floods are really common nowadays in the region, because the soil can’t absorb much water since pesticides make it harder and less absorvent. Another reason is that soya needs less water than other crops, so the water under the soil its just a mere 30cm from the surface making floods common when rainfalls. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/20 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: A supervisor of the agro-company checks on the field if the machine is dropping the correct measure the seeds. Between seeds usually there is a space of 10 cm. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/20 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: Mr. Domingos (39) checks the seeds container on the seeding machine. Only one tractor can seed 100 hectares on a single day. Production is almost completely automatized and in many cases with the right machines only one man is needed to do all the work, creating massive unemployment in the area. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/20 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: Mr. Domingos (39) holds soy seeds. This soy seeds are genetic modified and are able to resist to pesticides like glyphosate. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/20 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: A field in Monte Maiz, after being pulverized with glyphosate where no weeds survived, is ready to be used for soy plantation. The seeds of soy are genetic modified so they are able to resist to pesticides like glyphosate. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: Agro-chemicals containers piled in the landfill of Monte Maiz, next to a soy field. There isn’t any plan to collect or to storage used agro-chemical containers, so they are just sent to the landfill and mixed with normal garbage or chucked away. Many of them still contain residues of the pesticides, which will contaminate the environment and the water of the region. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: A “mosquito”, term used to name the machine that pulverizes the glyphosate on the soy cultivation, is parked next to a house in the town of Monte Maiz. Many residents complain that parking pulverization machines and storing chemicals inside town and next to houses grows the risk of cancer and other related diseases. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/18 - Monte Maiz, Argentina: Grass is burned with glyphosate on a sidewalk of Monte Maiz. Glyphosate, an highly toxic herbicide, is commonly used to  kill weeds in sidewalks and parks in Monte Maiz, which can easily contaminate the local population.(Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2015/03/05 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: A plane fumigates a soy field close by the town of Monte Maiz. Residents claim that the aerial pulverizations are one of the many causes for the cases of cancer grow exponentially in the area since the introduction of glyphosate on the soya cultivation. 26,000,000 Liters of pesticides are sprayed in Argentina - which per hectare is ten times more than in the USA. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2015/03/05 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: A plane fumigates a soy field close by the town of Monte Maiz. Residents claim that the aerial pulverizations are one of the many causes for the cases of cancer grow exponentially in the area since the introduction of glyphosate on the soya cultivation. 26,000,000 Liters of pesticides are sprayed in Argentina - which per hectare is ten times more than in the USA.  (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2015/03/05 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: A plane fumigates a soy field close by the town of Monte Maiz. Residents claim that the aerial pulverizations are one of the many causes for the cases of cancer grow exponentially in the area since the introduction of glyphosate on the soya cultivation. 26,000,000 Liters of pesticides are sprayed in Argentina - which per hectare is ten times more than in the USA.  (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/25 – Monte Quemado, Argentina: Members of the National Movement of Indigenous Farmers (MOCASE), protest on their way to the court during the trial regarding the assassination of one on the Movement members, Cristian Ferreyra. MOCASE is association that fight the intensive agriculture that is happening in Argentina, the despoil of indigenous people of their land and the destruction of forests and wildlife areas. Cristian Ferreyra was assassinated on the 16th of November 2011. Businessman Jorge Ciccioli, accused of being the mastermind of the assassination was at the end absolved of any crime, while his keeper, Javier Juárez, who pressed the trigger was sentanced to 10 years in prison. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/25 – Monte Quemado, Argentina: Members of the National Movement of Indigenous Farmers (MOCASE), protest outside the court during the trial regarding the assassination of one on the Movement members, Cristian Ferreyra.  MOCASE is association that fight the intensive agriculture that is happening in Argentina, the despoil of indigenous people of their land and the destruction of forests and wildlife areas.  Cristian Ferreyra was assassinated on the 16th of November 2011. Businessman Jorge Ciccioli, accused of being the mastermind of the assassination was at the end absolved of any crime, while his keeper, Javier Juárez, who pressed the trigger was sentanced to 10 years in prison. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/25 – Monte Quemado, Argentina: Soy businessman, Jorge Siccioli, is at the end of  the accused bench during the trial on the assassination of Cristian Ferreira, a member of the National Movement of Indegenous Farmers (MOCASE). MOCASE is association that fight the intensive agriculture that is happening in Argentina, the despoil of indigenous people of their land and the destruction of forests and wildlife areas. Cristian Ferreyra was assassinated on the 16th of November 2011. Businessman Jorge Ciccioli, accused of being the mastermind of the assassination was at the end absolved of any crime, while his keeper, Javier Juárez, who pressed the trigger was sentanced to 10 years in prison. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/25 – Monte Quemado, Argentina: A member of the National Movement of Indigenous Farmers (MOCASE), protests outside the court during the trial regarding the assassination of one on the Movement members, Cristian Ferreyra. MOCASE is association that fight the intensive agriculture that is happening in Argentina, the despoil of indigenous people of their land and the destruction of forests and wildlife areas.  Cristian Ferreyra was assassinated on the 16th of November 2011. Businessman Jorge Ciccioli, accused of being the mastermind of the assassination was at the end absolved of any crime, while his keeper, Javier Juárez, who pressed the trigger was sentanced to 10 years in prison. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • Argentina Santos waiting at the Fado house "Parreirinha de Alfama". Argentina Santos is well know for her peculiar deep voice and is one of the most respected Fado singers from her generation.
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  • Argentina Santos waiting at the Fado house "Parreirinha de Alfama". Argentina Santos is well know for her peculiar deep voice and is one of the most respected Fado singers from her generation.
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  • 2015/03/03 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: Daniel, a farmer in the Monte Maiz region rifes his horse on a path now-a-days covered with water. Floods are really common nowadays in the region, because the soil can’t absorb much water since pestifies make it harder and less absorvent. Another reason is that soy needs less water than other crops, so the water under the soil its just a mere 30cm from the surface making floods common when rain falls. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2015/03/03 – Monte Maiz, Argentina: Soy leafs in a field of the crop in Monte Maiz. The town Monte Maiz was named by the amount of corn that once used to be produced on the region. Nowadays soy cultivation took over and it is rare to see any other crop produced. With the intense production of soy and the usage of agro-chemicals many problems arise, such like respiratory and cancer related diseases and environmental issues like contamination of soil and water reserves. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/25 – Monte Quemado, Argentina: A member of the National Movement of Indigenous Farmers (MOCASE), protests outside the court during the trial regarding the assassination of one on the Movement members, Cristian Ferreira. MOCASE fights against the rights of indigenous people and non occupation of forest by soy producers. Cristian Ferreira was assassinated on the 16th of November 2011. Businessman Jorge Ciccioli, accused of being the mastermind of the assassination was at the end absolved of any crime, while his keeper, Javier Juárez, who pressed the trigger was sentanced to 10 years in prison. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2014/11/25 – Monte Quemado, Argentina: Police guards the accused, soy businessman, Jorge Siccioli, and his keeper Javier Juárez, during the trial on the assassination of Cristian Ferreyra, a member of the National Movement of Indigenous Farmers (MOCASE). They wear bullet proof vests, because authorities were afraid a revenge attempt would happen from MOCASE members. Cristian Ferreyra was assassinated on the 16th of November 2011. Businessman Jorge Ciccioli, accused of being the mastermind of the assassination was at the end absolved of any crime, while his keeper, Javier Juárez, who pressed the trigger was sentanced to 10 years in prison. (Eduardo Leal)
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  • 2015/03/06 – Km 215 between Rosário and Buenos Aires, Argentina: Visitors to the Expo Agro fair walk around the fair area. (Eduardo Leal)
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