This is the moment I've been anticipating for a long, long time...because for three years I've shared my faraway journeys in writing/photographs--from Africa, Asia, and Latin America---but now I can really invite you into the heart of the experience.

My first documentary filmed in Central America explores the innovative technologies, peasant livelihoods and personal stories we've encountered. So, as I now send this off to North American television stations, and prepare for my first trip to Bolivia and Peru, I am proud to show you {Develop}'s first 25-minute film " Mayan Territory" which is available online at http://develop.blip.tv  but f or the best viewing results, download the file onto your desktop. 

We've tried with so many platforms and with different sizes to best share it with everyone, so I hope it works!

Bety Reyes Toledo, daughter of the disappeared Hector Reyes, declares in the documentary: "If a rich person would have been kidnapped, a poor person would already be in jail. But, since it was a rich person who kidnapped my father, nothing has been clarified. Three years have passed in our struggle for justice, and nothing is clear. That is why we want justice to be applied equally... It is as if justice does not apply to us poor."

Despite having suffered a number of harassments and even been shot upon with gunfire, family members of Hector Reyes and the formidable group of peasants who accompany their struggle continue their peaceful resistance in search for justice. A community member reaffirms: "We have received threats, persecutions and intimidations by the private security. But we do not care. We will not take one step backwards until justice is made."

"In September 2003, Héctor Reyes, a union leader and administrator on the Nueva Linda farm, went missing in mysterious circumstances near the port of Champerico, Retalhuleu, South West Guatemala. The farm owner and the head of the farm's security were subsequently identified by the police as the main suspects. The following month some 200 campesinos from the Nueva Linda farm and the surrounding area occupied the farm to protest against the lack of investigations into the suspected abduction. Eight months later, on 31 August 2004, they were forcibly evicted. A number of police and campesinos were killed, including three minors. Thirty months after the abduction of Héctor Reyes, his fate and the circumstances in which he went missing are still unknown."

"The first line of police was unarmed. As they advanced, three policemen were shot and killed in disputed circumstances; another policeman later died of his wounds. Eight campesinos, including three minors, were also killed. Campesinos as well as journalists covering the event were beaten and threatened by police agents. Several journalists also had their video cameras seized after allegedly filming extrajudicial executions and beatings by police. All the homes, including contents, were burned by the police."

"In 1972 Perkins went to see the then dictator of Panama, General Omar Torrijos. Torrijos was a nationalist who was eager to wrest control of the Panama Canal from the US. Perkins went in to read him the riot act and came out with what sounded like an agreement. Some years later, Torrijos started talking to the Japanese about building a larger, sea-level canal for Panama that would have undermined American influence and corporate interests in the area.

One night in 1981 Torrijos died when his Twin Otter aircraft crashed under mysterious circumstances. Perkins is convinced he was killed by US interests who placed a bomb on the plane. Had he lived, Perkins writes in his book, Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man, "He would have served as a role model for a generation of leaders in the Americas, Africa and Asia - something the CIA, the NSA [National Security Agency] and the EHMs [economic hit men] could not allow."