Poet Homero Aridjis on Environmentalism in Mexico Boulderweekly.com
go to original November 18, 2013

Poet Homero Aridjis (Wikipedia)

A statement from poet Homero Aridjis on the dangers of environmentalism in Mexico:

It’s becoming more and more dangerous. … Every week, you read in the newspapers, that they killed the fisherman, they killed the peasants, they killed the indigenous persons, and you don’t know who. It might be criminals; it might be organized crime, but also the army, or the state governments. And sometimes when they want to stop a project that is dangerous for the environment in the local communities, the easiest way is to kill the person. Sometimes [those murdered] are unknown. If they disappear, nobody cares. ... It’s not always big news. Nobody knows what happens. There’s no investigation.

We feel distance with American groups, because sometimes American groups are more concerned with fundraising than direct action with local communities, and that is the difference, you see. It’s becoming very dangerous for the environmentalists in Mexico to be defending their own ecosystems, their own habitats. It’s becoming really dangerous here in Mexico. And the worst thing is that these people are killed, they disappear, and there is no investigation.

People are fearful, you see.

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