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Armed group loots barite in Chicomuselo and threatens residents
By: Elio Henríquez, CorrespondentSan Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas Unidentified individuals began to remove, with the support of armed men, barite extracted a few years ago by the Canadian company BlackFire Exploration Mexico from a mine located in the Grecia…
Read MoreIn Mexico, Mining Law Reform is “Half-Baked”
By: Renata Bessi President Andrés Manuel López Obrador published, on May 8th in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), the reforms to the Mining, National Waters, Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection, and Prevention and Integral Waste Management Laws, approved…
Read MoreLegal protction of lithium in Mexico will favor US and Canada
As part of its program called Lithium Exploration, the Mexican Geological Survey carried out work in 82 locations in 17 states, in which “possible deposits of the mineral” were identified, according to the report prepared by Mining Watch Canada and…
Read MoreOrganized crime and extractivism
By: Raúl Zibechi Organized crime, parastate or drug trafficking, are the forms assumed by accumulation by dispossession/extractivism in the zone of non-being, that is, in the territories of the native, black and campesino peoples of Latin America. Although they are…
Read MoreDisappeared defenders
By: Hermann Bellinghausen As I write this, two weeks have passed since the violent kidnapping of Ricardo Lagunes Gasca and Antonio Díaz Valencia in the vicinity of Cohuayana. Their whereabouts are not known nor exactly who took them away, although…
Read MoreViolence against the Indigenous Peoples
By: Francisco López Bárcenas Popular predictions at the beginning of the year announced that January would bring storms, but few imagined the magnitude of them. The violence against indigenous peoples in this first month of 2023 has acquired such dimension…
Read MoreA lawyer for Indigenous communities and a communal leader disappear in Michoacán
By: Ernesto Martínez, Elio Henríquez, correspondents and Jessica Xantomila, reporter The lawyer for Indigenous communities Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca and Antonio Díaz Valencia, a teacher and community leader from Aquila, Michoacán, have been missing since January 15, when they returned…
Read MoreThreat of mining activities without prior consultation in Chicomuselo, Chiapas
By: Chiapas Paralelo The Movement in Defense of Life and Territory (Modevite), expresses its concern faced with the context of insecurity and violence given the latent threat of reactivating mining activities in the municipality of Chicomuselo, Chiapas, originating from the…
Read More2021: A year of resistance for life in Latin America
By: Raúl Zibechi The parliament of Chubut province in southern Argentina, approved a law in favor of mining in December, but had to annul it a week later faced with a mass insurrection of the population. It’s one of the…
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