Zapatistas and Indigenous Mexicans Demand Release of Yaqui Tribe Leader teleSUR
go to original September 16, 2014

Mario Luna, Yaqui activist in the Mexican state of Sonora fighting for water rights. (RevolucionTresPuntoCerto)

The Mexican guerrilla group Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN, for its acronym in Spanish) and the Native Mexican Culture Congress (CNI) demanded on Monday the release of Mario Luna, leader of the Mexican Yaqui tribe.

Both organizations released a joint statement in which they assert that Luna was arrested for his fight against the Independence Aqueduct, built in the Mexican state of Sonora, and along a vast area that belongs to the Yaqui tribe.

The powerful “have failed in killing our people. Like seeds we keep growing. They tried to kill us with guns and, because they failed, then they tried to kill us with diseases and again they failed. The powerful have used several ways to wipe out indigenous people,” reads the statement.

Last week, the tribe members announced that Luna was detained by several men dressed as civilians and travelling in unidentified cars.

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