Leocadio Juracán, the agrarian reform coordinator of the Campesino Committee of the Altiplano (CCDA), will be speaking on Denman Island, British Columbia on Sunday November 1 starting at 3:30 pm PT.
Event poster.
Peace Brigades International and the CCDA
Photo: PBI-Guatemala with Leocadio Juracán, July 2026.
In August 2025, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted on social media: “We stand in solidarity with Leocardio and CCDA Guatemala for repressive actions taken against the defender of human rights and access to land for indigenous communities and farmworkers This action shows what Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Rapporteur of the United Nations on the Right to Adequate Housing, that in Guatemala there is ‘a clear pattern of criminalization and intimidation towards those who attempt to protest or report these forced evictions.’”
This past summer, PBI-Guatemala also posted on social media: “On 8 July, #PBI accompanied community journalist Carlos Choc whilst he was covering proceedings at the Puerto Barrios Magistrates’ Court, where the interim hearing was held in the case against Leocadio Juracán, leader of the Altiplano Peasants’ Committee (CCDA), who was arbitrarily detained in August last year and released on alternative measures a few days later. He is currently facing trial for the alleged offence of aggravated trespass.”
Peace Brigades International accompanies the Campesino Committee of the Highlands (CCDA) of the Verapaces in the departments of Alta and Baja Verapaz, the municipality of El Estor in the department of Izabal and the Zona Reina in Quiché.
CCDA: “Representing the Highland Peasant Committee (CCDA), we share the voices and struggles of Guatemala’s Indigenous and peasant peoples during this tour of Canada, carrying the stories of communities facing land dispossession, forced evictions, and criminalization for defending their territories and rights.”
