Extractivism

Santa María Ostula, unrelenting assault

Santa María Ostula is a paradise that organized crime wants to turn into hell. The Nahua community in Michoacán, zealous defender of their lands and natural resources, is being savagely attacked by the drug traffickers.

In the state of Michoacan, indigenous Nahua defend their land and autonomy from incessant attacks by organized crime. Last week was the latest incident in decades of violence against them.

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The Inter-Oceanic Corridor Lacks Water

The megaproject puts greater pressure on water resources in a region where abundance and overexploitation of the resource coexist. For example, according to Conagua figures, of the 21 aquifers in Oaxaca, five show a deficit, and in Veracruz, of the 20 phreatic mantles (water tables), five suffer excessive extraction, such as the Papaloapan river basin. All these areas are on the route of the Interoceanic Corridor.

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Mining in Mexico, an Activity of Speculation and Dispossession

In the run-up to the signing of NAFTA, Mexico entered into an extractivist boom, repealing limiting legislation from the Constitution and opening its territory to foreign investment. This exponential increase in territory under concession, as revealed by a recent investigation, has brought only dispossession and environmental degradation, and as it has in Chiapas, an increase in organized crime.

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