Bad notices at Puebla, Mexico.

Land Grabbing in Mexico, the Violent Oppression of Protests Grows

Mexico - 30 Apr 14

“The situation is worsening. They want to silence the voice of the community.” Leonardo Durán Olguín called us from Mexico’s Sierra Norte mountain range, where permission has been given to the construction of hydroelectric power stations and open-pit mines, robbing land from local communities.  Durán Olguín coordinates the Puebla Sierra Norte Native Bees’ Honey Presidium, which has been directly affected by this land grabbing.



Durán Olguín called us to tell us about the spiral of violent repression that is growing in the Mexican states of Puebla and Morelos. “In the past few days the interference from authorities against the representatives of some indigenous communities has multiplied.” Their crime? Having protested against projects that exploit natural resources and are threatening the entire area.



To put an end to this wave of violence, cultural figures like the American linguist Noam Chomsky, Uruguayan intellectual Eduardo Galeano, and Mexican poet and journalist Javier Sicilia have signed an international petition with Slow Food and about eighty other civil society organizations.



The states of Puebla and Morelos are selling dozens of licenses to large foreign and Mexican companies to excavate gold and silver mines, construct enormous hydroelectric centers and extract natural gas and petroleum through the controversial technique calledfracking.



“Since 2007, just in Sierra Norte the rights to some 120,000 hectares of land have been sold at extremely low prices,” reports Leonardo.



Additionally, infrastructure with a high environmental impact grows alongside these extraction sites: roads, aqueducts and pipelines that cut through unspoiled nature and the lands of the campesinos.



In Sierra Norte, the construction of three mines and a hydroelectric center is threatening the Náhuat and Totonaco populations that harvest the Slow Food Presidium honey.



“The states of Puebla and Morelos are selling off their lands, with their thriving wilderness,” said Slow Food president Carlo Petrini. “The life of the indigenous populations is in danger, and, if that were not enough, their protests are being brutally suffocated. It is an intolerable, double brutality that must end immediately.”

Opinion: By Kevin Luna

I think this article show us that life in parts of Mexico just like the outsides of Puebla are just a pain to live in. Considering that those people have low resources and live in poor conditions and even though that they life sustainment is mainly the field, the industries, specificly the ones from technology and mechanic ones remove without any reason those terrains that belong to the poor people.

They started to protest against them because they were getting more and more poor than they were before and lots of them die of hunger of the bad climates and no shelter to protect from.

The difficuties of these families is getting worse every day and they need support from other people so they can fight against them y recover their terrains back again.

They could get help from the government but they... well, we know that they won't help because of their convinience, it's better to have more industries that having poor people at the field so for those people to survive they need our help and the best way is publishing this type of notices that are censured at T.V. at the social networks like Facebook and Twitter so more and more people join them to get back their belongings.