A good article about the struggle against La Parota dam has been published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. While emphasizing and giving due credit to campesino resistance, the article also suggests, interestingly, that part of the reason the Mexican government has refrained from using military force is fear that the Zapatista (EZLN) and the Popular Revolutionary [...]

The UN special rapporteurs on Adequate Housing (Miloon Khotari) and Fundamental Liberties of Indigenous Peoples (Rodolfo Stavenhagen) have recommended that the Mexican Government suspend all work toward La Parota Dam, finding that the process to date has not respected human rights. Declaring that the government has attempted to impose the dam “by force,” the rapporteurs [...]

On February 7, members of the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposed to La Parota Dam (CECOP) and representatives of other Mexican indigenous groups met with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbor.
A CECOP representative told Arbor about the history of resistance to the government’s plans for La Parota dam. He then asked her [...]