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Friday, October 4, 2013

In These Mexican Towns, Mining Resistance Is Fertile

A steady stream of visitors trickled into Capulálpam de Méndez as dusk fell upon the Sierra Juárez mountains in southern Mexico one cold January evening. Despite the frosty overnight lows, over 400 farmers, indigenous leaders and environmental activists from throughout Latin America had joined roughly 1,400 residents of the Oaxacan mountain town to exchange experiences in the fight against mining companies in their respective communities.
http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/10/04/Mining-Resistance/

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