The Campesino Committee of the Highlands (CCDA) was founded in 1982 as an organization that works to defend the rights of workers on large coffee, sugar and cotton plantations, to recover lands taken from the Mayan communities over the past centuries, and to promote and recover Mayan culture and spirituality. Today about 100 communities in 11 Guatemalan provinces belong to the CCDA, but the organization is strongest in the Madre Vieja valley of Sololá.
History of the CCDA