Nothing will ever be the same again. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is going to end up becoming Mexico’s second border. It is going to end up like Ciudad Juarez, full of maquiladoras, factories, exploiting cheap labor to benefit large companies, protested Juana Ramirez Villegas, an Ayuuk indigenous woman.
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.
The International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature, which is an ethical court, delivered its verdict on the Mayan Train on Wednesday morning at the offices of the Presidency of Mexico. The sentence is signed by 23 honorary judges from various countries of the world.
In this article from El País, Alejandro Santos Cid analyses the latest report from the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Center for Human Rights and pulls together the threads that link the megaprojects of the Mexican government, human rights abuses, migration, militarization and the surge in organized crime in Chiapas. He does so in the context of the recent Sur Resiste caravan and the resistance of the Zapatista communities and the National Indigenous Congress to the death projects.
Nautical charts for tempestuous times. There is no doubt that the words shared at the International Meeting “Global corporate capitalism, planetary patriarchy, autonomies in rebellion”, which took place at the Caracol Jacinto Canek, in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, on May 6 and 7, are just that. These are some essential reflections that help us navigate the troubled times we live in.
