Water

South America

Peru: Water Crisis, Extractivism, and Food Insecurity

Javier Bedía Prado - 3 November, 2023

Coverphoto: Red de Comunicación Regional Half of the Peruvian population is at risk of food shortage; a situation worsened by the water crisis caused by El Niño. This year, draught has caused the loss of...

Mexico

“It’s Not Draught, it’s Plunder”: Assembly for Water and Life Protests CONAGUA

Jeny Pascacio - 3 October, 2023

Denunciation of the exploitation, dispossession, repression, and contempt of the fourth transformation against land and water defenders

Mexico

Assembly in Defense of Water Demands an End to its Plunder in Mexico

Avispa - 29 August, 2023

The manipulation and division of communities, commodification, as well as the industry concessions are tactics being used to impose the plunder

Mexico

Resistance Grows Against Water Privatization in Mexico

Santiago Navarro F - 9 March, 2023

Participants from 18 states and 6 countries, around 500 people, celebrated the Second National Assembly for Water and Life in rebel Otomí territory

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State Terrorism

Indigenous council in Michoacán denounces threats Against Spokesperson

Sare Frabes - 2 December, 2023

Pavel Uliánov Guzmán, spokesperson for the CSIM, on the microphone. On Monday, November 27, members of the Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán (CSIM) legally denounced...

Extractivism

Industrial Activity Expands in the Isthmus of Veracruz

Aldo Santiago - 30 November, 2023

Silica sand mine in Jáltipan. Photo: Aldo Santiago As part of the project Tracing Green Capital in Mesoamerica, Avispa Midia documented the vast deployment of...

Special

Chapín Abajo: History of a Community in Resistance Against Industrial Oil Palm Cultivation

Renata Bessi - 27 November, 2023

Indigenous Maya Q’eqchi’ people are recuperating their lands despite the military presence.