#interoceaniccorridor — Public Fediverse posts

"While neglecting their demands, the government has repeatedly responded to #Indigenous protests against the violation of their land rights with heavy crackdowns. Its repression of communities that resisted the #InteroceanicCorridor has ranged from setting fishermen’s houses on fire in Oaxaca to evicting and arresting Ayuujk indigenous protesters there."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/03/12/we-think-theyll-kill-someone-environmental-defenders-mexico/
https://archive.ph/FNSsB
#Mexico #NativeAmericans #LandDefenders #megaprojects #colonialViolence

Murders, #megaprojects and a ‘new Panama Canal’ in Mexico

#Activists suspect murders of 15 #Indigenous community members are linked to their opposition to a proposed megaproject.

By Eoin Wilson
Published On 13 Jul 2020

Mexico City, Mexico – "The murders bore all the hallmarks of drug cartel executions. Fifteen victims – all members of the Ikoots Indigenous community – had been beaten, shot, and their bodies burned in a field just outside Huazantlan del Rio, a village in the municipality of San Mateo del Mar in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, in late June. An as-yet-unknown number of people were also 'disappeared'.

"At first the local government, headed by Mayor Bernardino Ponce Hinojosa, blamed the killings on a shadowy figure and an unnamed organised-crime group. Officials also acknowledged intra-community grievances and political infighting, caused by dissatisfaction with municipal elections and tension over last October’s mayoral election, which Ponce Hinojosa won.

"San Mateo used to be governed by an Indigenous 'popular assembly', which made decisions by consensus and served on a one-year rotation. But in 2017, this changed to a ballot-based electoral approach, leading to tensions that increased after the mayor’s disputed 2019 win.

"The Ikoots, most of whom consider the popular assembly to be the legitimate source of authority in the region, allege that the vote was fraudulent. They also accuse the mayor and a local businessman of being complicit in the wave of violence, sources told Al Jazeera, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

"Meanwhile, a collective of 15 civil society and teachers’ organisations, the National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE), has accused the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) – one of Mexico’s most violent and territorially-ambitious cartels – of committing the murders.

"The allegations came in the same week that the CJNG was accused of the attempted assassination of Mexico City’s chief of police in an ambush with heavy weapons in which three people were killed.

"Although CNTE gave no evidence to support its accusation, many in San Mateo believe the claims because the cartel had already been active in their Istmo region, which boasts a wealth of mineral resources and a strategic location.

"The Istmo (or Isthmus in English) spans the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz at the narrowest point between the Pacific and the Atlantic. It is the site of the controversial 'Interoceanic' or 'Transistmico' corridor project, initiated by the government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and opposed by many Indigenous communities."

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/7/13/murders-megaprojects-and-a-new-panama-canal-in-mexico

#Ikoots #IndigenousActivists #MegaInfrastructureProjects #CarbonIntensive #MegaCorridors #SDGs #CIIT #GulfOfMexico #IMFLoanSharks #SacrificeZones #CulturalGenocide #CulturalErasism #EnvironmentalDegradation #EnvironmentalDamage #Capitalism #CorporateColonialism #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalSurvival #Oaxaca #Veracruz #IndigenousCulture #ExtractiveIndustries #InteroceanicCorridor #TransistmicoCorridor #Istmo #IsthmusOfTehuantepec #Tehuntepec

Indigenous Zapotecs Denounce Militarization and Other Consequences of Line K of the Interoceanic Corridor

👉 https://avispa.org/?p=116663 🐝

#interoceaniccorridor #indigenouspeoples #oaxaca #Mexico #Economy #istmo #Railways #LightRail #mayatrain #InvestmentOpportunities #development

Construction of Mexico’s Largest Solar Project in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec Conceals Impacts

👉 https://avispa.org/?p=116482

#solarenergy #cleanenergy #rensourceenergy #EAIF2024 #renewableenergy #interoceaniccorridor #mjexico #amlo #energy #indigenouspeoples #biodiversityday #istmo

"End the Attacks Against Puente Madera! Justice for Juan Cortés!"

Communique regarding the recent attacks against members of the Binnizá community of Puente Madera, Oaxaca

#PuenteMadera #Istmo #Oaxaca #Mexico #IndigenousResistance #InteroceanicCorridor

https://itsgoingdown.org/end-the-attacks-against-puente-madera-justice-for-juan-cortes/

"AMLO decrees expropriation of communal lands in Oaxaca for construction of industrial parks"

The government has announced 10 industrial parks to be constructed as part of the Interoceanic Corridor but still lacks the decree to expropriate 300 hectares of land of El Pitayal, in the community of Puente Madera.

👉 https://avispa.org/?p=93401 🐝

#Mexico #Oaxaca #Istmo #IndigenousPeople #NativePeople #Solidarity #Indigenous #LATAM #Resistance #Autonomy #Dignity #InteroceanicCorridor #IndigenousPeople