For ‘The Violence of Development’ book, many interviews were conducted in Central America during research visits in 2009 and 2010. Only a very small fraction of these interviews have been used in the published work, and so this chapter of the website is used to make available the full interview transcripts and translations to those who may wish to refer to the words of any of the interviewees.

Belize

	Interviewees: Candy and George Gonzalez Location: San Igancio, Belize Date: Friday 16th August 2013 Theme: An informal interview about environmental and developmental issues in Belize. Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Matt Miller, Director of Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary Location: Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize. Date: 6th September August 2013 Theme: The development of tourism in Belize. Keywords: TBC
	Interviewees: Ernesto and Aurora Saquí Location: Maya Centre, Belize. Date: 3rd May 2016 Theme: The development of tourism in Belize. Keywords: indigenous land rights; subsistence farming; citrus cultivation; conservation; cruise tourism

Costa Rica

	Interviewee: Patricia Blanco Location: Offices of PAN-UK, London Date: 29th August 2018 Keywords: pineapple production; monocultivation; export crops; food security; pesticide abuse; contamination; supermarkets; transnational corporations.
	Interviewee: Amilcar Castañeda, Consultant in indigenous rights to the Inter American Institute for Human Rights Location: San José, Costa Rica Date: 21st July 2009 Theme: Indigenous issues in Central America. Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Daryl Loth, resident, guide and hotelier in Tortuguero Location: Tortuguero, Costa Rica Date: 19th August 2009 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Ros Ballard, resident, guide and hotelier in Tortuguero Location: Tortuguero, Costa Rica Date: 20th August 2009 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Isabel MacDonald, Coordinator of the Centro de Amigos Para la Paz Location: San José, Costa Rica Date: 24th September 2009 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Didier Leiton Valverde of SITRAP Costa Rica Location: London, United Kingdom Date: 17th June 2010 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Nela Perle Location: San José, Costa Rica Date: 28th September 2010 Theme: Labour conditions and free trade banana cultivation in Costa Rica; organic food production in Costa Rica Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Juan Luis Salas Villalobos: Producer of organic vegetables and spices and the Executive Secretary of the Costa Rican Organic Agriculture Movement (MAOCO) Location: San José, Costa Rica Date: 28th September 2010 Theme: Organic food production in Costa Rica Keywords: TBC

El Salvador

	Interviewee: Marta (This is a pseudonym used for protection of the interviewee’s identity). Location: San Martín, El Salvador Date: 19 January 2019 Theme: Interview with Marta about her experience as a migrant on one of the migrant caravans from El Salvador heading for the United States during 2018.
	Interviewee: Hector Garcia Berrios, lawyer and member of the National Roundtable Against Metal Mining Location: San Salvador, El Salvador Date: 22nd and 23rd July September 2010 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewees: Estela Anzora (Presidenta de COMUS), Juan Rodríguez, Jaime Coutts, Chico Peña and Ernesto Location: San Francisco Javier, Usulután, El Salvador Date: 26 July 2010 Theme: Many aspects of development in Usulután and in El Salvador as a whole, with special emphasis on agriculture and forestry. Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Carlos Flores of the Unidad Ecológica Salvadoreña (UNES) Location: UNES office, San Salvador, El Salvador Date: 30 July 2010 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewees: Oscar Beltrán, Cristina Starr, Manuel Navarrete and Elvis Zavala (all of Radio Victoria) Location: Cabañas, El Salvador Date: 29 January 2014 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Hector Berríos of MUFRAS-32 Location: Cabañas, El Salvador Date: 29th January 2014 Theme: The operations of Pacific Rim / Oceana Gold in El Salvador and the consequential human rights and environmental abuses. Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Brian Rude Location: San Salvador, El Salvador Date: 7th February 2014 Theme: An informal interview about drugs, gangs and crime in Central America Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Jesús López, Administrator of CESTA (Salvadoran Centre for Appropriate Technology) Location: San Marcos, El Salvador Date: 7th February 2014 Theme: An informal interview about environmental and developmental issues in Belize. Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Delmy Valencia Location: CIS, San Salvador, El Salvador Date: 28th July 2010 Theme: A wide-ranging discussion of development issues in El Salvador, but especially covering the CAFTA-DR free trade treaty and maquilas. Keywords: TBC

Guatemala

	Interviewee: Iduvina Hernández, Director of the Association for the Study and Promotion of Security in Democracy. Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala Date: 27th July 2009 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Hermana María-José López Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala Date: 27th July 2009 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewees: Norma Maldonado, member of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN) Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala Date: 27th July 2009 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewees: Omar Jerónimo Location: Tavistock Hotel, London Date: Sunday 21 June 2015 Theme: TBC Keywords:Guatemala; human rights defenders; indigenous communities; land conflicts; the dialogue process; corruption

Honduras

	Interviewee: Purificación Hernández Location: San Miguel Ixtahuacán, Quezaltenango, Guatemala Date: 25 July 2009 Keywords: General Law of Mining (Honduras); mining companies; open cast mining; cyanide; Hurricane Mitch aid; Civic Alliance for Democracy.
	Interviewee: Dina Meza Location: Tegucigalpa Date: 22nd May 2017 Keywords: human rights; rights defenders; environmental defenders; journalism; media censorship; precautionary measures; freedom of expression
	Interviewee: Aurelia Arzú, vice-President of OFRANEH (the Black Fraternal Organisation of Honduras) Location: The Tattershall Castle, a boat on the River Thames in London Date: 25th September 2017 Keywords: OFRANEH; Garífuna people; indigenous peoples; the ‘commons’; ILO Convention 169; human rights defending; criminalisation; land titles; threats; tourism developments; coconut oil; African palm oil.
	Interviewee: Bertha Cáceres, leader of COPINH, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Peoples of Honduras Location: Intibucá, Honduras Date: March 2010 Theme: COPINH; resistance; indigenous knowledge. Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Padre Andrés Tamayo Location: Online Date: 8th July 2010 Theme: Email Interview regarding deforestation in Olancho, Honduras Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Alfredo López Location: Triunfo de la Cruz, Faluma Bimetu radio station Date: 16 August 2010 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewees: Eduardo Zavala, Executive Director of FP and Dennis Sierra, Director of Jeannette Kawas National Park Location: Tela, Honduras Date: 17th August 2010 Theme: Area protection; threats to the environment. Keywords: NGO | conservation | Caribbean coast | Garífuna | plantations | monocultivación | land invasions | palm oil | drug trafficking | tourism | fishing
	Interviewee: Bryn Wolfe Location: Tegucigalpa, Honduras Date: Wed. 18th August 2010 Theme: General human rights situation in Honduras; palm oil cultivation and Miguel Facussé; free trade treaties Keywords: TBC
	Interviewees: Elvín Maldonado, María-José Bonilla, and Juan Granados – All members of the Camamento Environmentalist Movement (CAM) Location: Campamento, Olancho, Honduras Date: Wed. 20th August 2010 Theme: Deforestation in Olancho, Honduras; threats to defenders of the forests Keywords: TBC
	Interviewees: Bryn Wolfe (long time development worker in numerous parts of the world), Elly Alvarado (resident of Tegucigalpa and Bryn’s wife) and Mauricio Santos (member of the Artists in Resistance Collective, Honduras) Location: Tegucigalpa, Honduras Date: Wed. 22nd August 2010 Theme: Resistance to the 2009 coup; post-coup developments in Honduras Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Dr Juan Almendares Location: Tegucigalpa, Honduras Date: 23rd August 2010 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: René Wilfredo Gradis of the MAO (Olancho Environmental Movement) Location: Olancho, Honduras Date: 28th August 2010 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Berta Oliva, President of COFADEH (the Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras) Location: Tegucigalpa, Honduras Date: 23rd August 2010 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Lizandro [pseudonym] Location: Centro de Amigos para la Paz, San José, Costa Rica Date: 11th July 2010 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Gerson Suazo Location: Central Square, Tegucigalpa, Honduras Date: 11 September 2015 Theme: Los Indignados Keywords: protests | government corruption | CICIH (International Commission Against Impunity in Honduras) | Hunger strike
	Interviewee: COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras) Location: COPINH’s office, La Esperanza, Intibucá, Honduras Date: 23rd September 2015 Keywords: peaceful resistance; indigenous rights; transnational companies; community radio; ILO Convention 169; Lenca people; CONATEL; repression; impunity; National Institute for Agrarian Reform.
	An interview with Gustavo Castro (conducted by Vinicio Chacón for the Costa Rica weekly Semanario Universidad) is given as an article in Chapter 8 of this website (in the sub-section on ‘Land disputes and encroachments …’). Gustavo was with Berta Cáceres when she was assassinated in March 2016 and was left for dead by the hitmen.

Nicaragua

	Interviewee: María Consuelo Sánchez, Director of the Asociación Quincho Barrilete Location: Managua, Nicaragua Date: 6th July 2009 Theme: Violence and abuse against children; family breakdown; The Quincho Barrilete programmes. Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Edilberta Gómez Location: Clínica Xochil, El Viejo, Nicaragua Date: 9th July 2009 Theme: General health of the population and health provision Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Sisters Abdontxu Viar, Ana Lourdes, Paulina and Ana Noemi of the Berriz Sisters Location: Centro Catequístico of El Viejo, Nicaragua. Date:Saturday 7th March 2015 (10.15 am) Theme: The issue of children left behind after parents migrate away from the area.family breakdown; The Quincho Barrilete programmes. Keywords: migration; violence; gangs; sexual abuse.
	Interviewee: Council of Women of the West of Nicaragua (CMO) Location: The office of the CMO, Chinandega, Nicaragua Date:Friday September 11th 2015 Theme: CMO Keywords: Nicaragua; drought; monocultivation; small-scale farmers
	Interviewee: Conversation in the office of PASE Location: Chinandega, Nicaragua Date:September 2016 Keywords: chronic kidney disease of non-traditional sources (CKDnT); maquilas; labour conditions; plantation agriculture; Nicaraguan Institute of Social Security (INSS); social security.

Panama

	Interviewee: Osvaldo Jordan Location: Panamá City Date: 14th July 2014 Keywords: CHAN75 hydroelectric project; Ngöbe people; Barro Blanco; Changuinola 2; Partido Popular; civil society; Naso people; Alliance for Conservation and Development (ACD); Bonyic hydroelectric project.
	Interviewee: Naso people of San San Drui, Felix Sánchez, King Valentín Santana and the mayor of Changuinola, Lorenzo Luis. Location: San San Drui, Panama Date: 1st September 2009 Theme: Naso struggle for land rights against the Ganadera Bocas company and the violence of the company and police. Keywords: TBC
	Interviewees: Julio Yao Location: Panamá City, Panamá Date: 3rd September 2009 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Geodisio Castillo Location: Panamá City, Panamá Date: 3rd September 2009 Theme: TBC Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Geodisio Castillo Location: Panamá City, Panamá Date: July 9th 2014 Theme: TBC Keywords: Kuna Yala, Kuna General Congress, COONAPIP (National Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples), Development projects, Tourism, Carrying capacity, Cacao production, Agroecology, Lobster conservation, Climate change, REDD Plus
	Interviewee: Felix Sánchez (President of the Naso Foundation) and King Valentín Santana (King of the Naso People). Location: San San Drui, Panama Date: 9th September 2009 Theme: Naso struggle for land rights against the Ganadera Bocas company and the violence of the company and police. Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Alida Spadafora, Executive Director of ANCON (Asociación Nacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza de Panamá Location: ANCON’s office in Panamá Date: 4th September 2009 Theme: Panama’s environment; the inappropriateness of mining in Panama; mining protests; deforestation; ANCON’s programmes Keywords: TBC
	Interviewee: Osvaldo Jordan Location: Panamá City Date: 14th September 2016 Theme: A conversation with Osvaldo Jordan, regarding the construction of the Barro Blanco Dam in Panama. Keywords: Ngabe Indigenous group; Barro Blanco dam; land demarcation; militarisation.