A Mother’s Battle Against Agrochemicals, Church and State in #Paraguay · Global Voice
▻https://globalvoices.org/2018/01/22/a-mothers-battle-against-agrochemicals-church-and-state-in-paraguay
As a midwife, Petrona Villasboa has helped bring more than 200 children into the world alive and well, but when her own son Silvino Talavera was poisoned, she could not save his life.
In spite of this, Villasboa has dedicated herself to the fight against Paraguay’s powerful soy producers, responsible for the use of the deadly agrochemicals that killed her son. In 2004, she brought the first-ever conviction against two soy producers, in a case which proved that the cause of her son’s death was the indiscriminate use of agrochemicals. Had it not been for these producers’ pesticides, Silvino would be 26 years old today.