In Bolivia, the government’s plan to redistribute thousands of acres of seized land is being resisted by landowners. This week, landowners in Santa Cruz burnt down the homes of peasants who had come to occupy seized land.

• Landowner Luis Del Rio: “The houses that we burned were a consequence of the eviction of the guarayos. We hope that there is nothing left here, of these houses. This is a field here where we have harvested soy. They have come to a farmed field. This is not free countryside.”

The government has vowed to continue with the land distribution.

• Bolivian President Evo Morales: “I am starting to get to know the true businessmen who invest in their country, who export. Those businessmen never make problems for us, they just ask us to guarantee markets outside the country. And there are other businessmen threatening, intimidating, talking of taking up arms, when we talk of the land. The land has to be distributed, my companions. The land cannot continue in the hands of a few. And there are many hands left without land.”