{"id":14858,"date":"2010-11-21T10:35:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T16:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14858"},"modified":"2010-11-21T10:37:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T16:37:59","slug":"ben-dangl-the-tyranny-of-soy-agribusiness-in-paraguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14858","title":{"rendered":"Ben Dangl: The Tyranny of Soy Agribusiness in Paraguay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/trnn.com\">TRNN.COM<\/a><br \/>\n21 November 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Dangl: President Lugo hasn&#8217;t delivered on promises to the farmers who brought him to power, while transgenic soy farms expand<\/p>\n<p>Monsanto, Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill and a series of Brazilians agribusinesses are flexing their muscles in Paraguay, currently occupying 25% of all arable land for the production of genetically modified soy for export. The losers are Paraguay&#8217;s peasant farmers, and they&#8217;ve mobilized to defend themselves, including getting a president into power who promised to help them. But as Ben Dangl reports, for a serious of reasons, President Lugo has converted into an enemy of the same farmers that got him into power in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=31&#038;Itemid=74&#038;jumival=5896\">View video report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRNN.COM 21 November 2010 Ben Dangl: President Lugo hasn&#8217;t delivered on promises to the farmers who brought him to power, while transgenic soy farms expand Monsanto, Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill and a series of Brazilians agribusinesses are flexing their muscles &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14858\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3RE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14862,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14858\/revisions\/14862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}