The materials showcased here were created and collected in August 2025 during an arts workshop at the cooperative Camerones, located in Bajo Aguán, Honduras. In the workshop, participants included youth from over five campesino cooperatives that organize under the Plataformia Agraria movement. Most of the participants were from the nearby cooperatives of El Chile and Tranvio—two cooperatives that, alongside Camarones, have collectively received the brunt of violence from the palm oil industry via forced displacement. 

This workshop, led by two film and photography students, an undergraduate from Stanford University and doctoral candidate at Brown University, both from the displaced Latin American diaspora in the United States, took place six months after armed groups attempted to displace families from El Chile and Camarones via gunfire, and four months before the United States government pardoned former Honduran narcodictator Juan Orlando, a man who oversaw with impunity the assassinations of environmental and human rights leaders in the Aguán. 

Most of the art was made by artists between the ages of seven and thirteen years old, though the range of artists featured range between three years old to 25 years old. We hope this archive serves as a counter-narrative to the criminalization of campesino families in the Aguán, who are labeled as the usurpers of their ancestral territories by U.S.-financed multinationals engaged in land grabs. In this archive, we witness a connection to the land that goes beyond extractivism into community, veneration, and human-nature relationality.