Since 2009, the Honduran government has been on the offensive against the country's campesino organizations. Over 5,000 peasant farmers are currently facing criminal charges in the fight against evictions, 700 of them women, and 16 of their leaders are in prison without a proper trial. About 60% of the country's population works in agriculture and 70% of the sector's production corresponds to small-scale producers who do not own their own land. The campesino movement is holding protests in front of the country's congress, calling for a comprehensive agrarian reform that would put land in the hands of those who work the fields. Protests are also scheduled in front of the Supreme Court to demand an end to the persecution of peasant activists. Gerardo Torres reports from Tegucigalpa. teleSUR