Honduran land seizures raise fear of wider clashes

As La Confianza stirs to life at daybreak, farmers ride bicycles or buses to lush green fields of African palm trees, where they harvest high-hanging fruit using poles tipped with hooked knives.

On the way, they cross paths with neighbours carrying automatic rifles to an entrance checkpoint set up under a red banner emblazoned with the face of communist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and the words "Land Liberated by the Unified Farmworkers Movement".