Talk:Syngenta

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This article is lacking an important recent fact. Gunmen hired by Syngenta in Brazil have attacked campesinos that occupied some lands owned by the company (the specifics are little complicated, apparently the land had been expropriated by the government, due to some judicial process, and there would be built a centre for agricultural studies or something, but then Syngenta won a side-process and the campesinos were forced to leave), killing one campesino (keno, that had already received death threats from gunmen) a security guard and wounding some more people. Now, would that go in history or legal issues? I'm thinking history, any objections?

In case you didn't hear of it, some sources: (in Portuguese) the organization the campesinos worked for

A letter by a native American organization


(in English) this one is a bit tricky, since CNN left a huge chunk of the thing untold

this one is way better, it presents Syngenta's side (they say they didn't know that the people they hired to protect the seed farm carried guns, and then sent a team of lawyers to investigate) and the campesino's side (Syngenta is not the only one *ominous song of terror*)

--200.222.30.9 (talk) 13:17, 18 November 2007 (UTC)