Coordinadora Nacional Indígena y Campesina (CONIC)

Since its founding in 1992, CONIC has demonstrated its determination in the struggle for the Mayan population to have access to land and to protect its culture. In spite of repressive measures against the organization, it has members in more than 300 communities, and is one of the leading organizations addressing the issue of access to land and resolving conflicts surrounding this problem.

In one case, CONIC mobilized an estimated 25,000 families to participate in nine major events that succeeded in creating land leases that benefited 31,951 families. On another occasion, peasant families working with CONIC occupied nine farms in six provinces as one way of pressuring the government to provide titles for 30 properties to the benefit of 411 families. CONIC also mounted a lobbying effort to obtain titles to 84 properties for 905 families in other areas of the country.