The relocated community of San Andres, Honduras. Photo by Edgar Orellana / Oxfam America
A rock hitting a metal roof makes a certain sound.
When I heard it I was in a meeting in a small house in San Andres, Honduras, with a group of people who had been moved off their farms to make way for a large gold mine. They are now living in a tidy, well-laid out town built just for them.
When you talk to the people they say they are disappointed: “They gave us [building] plots, just three meters by 20 meters [about 10 feet by 66 feet], and there is no place to expand. We can’t have chickens or pigs, there’s just no room,” one man reluctant to give me his name said. “This is a place for middle class people, not poor people, it just does not work for us.”
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