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Mexico’s Yaqui People Launch Defence of Water and Territory
Reina Lourdes, Yaqui activist, affirms the defence of water is the defence of the Yaqui’s existence | Photo: Clayton Conn / teleSUR
Dozens of social organizations, unions and indigenous groups are backing the defence of Mexico’s natural resources and indigenous peoples’ rights.
The Yaqui indigenous people launched three simultaneous routes this week as part of a National Caravan for the Defence of Water, Land, Work and Life.
The convoy aims to reach the historic Zocalo square in Mexico City on May 22nd.
It will travel through 23 states of Mexico with the goal of bridging different social struggles into a so-called “National Process”.
Specifically the caravan seeks the cancellation of all mega-projects that affect life, water, land and air; the cancellation of recently approved neoliberal structural reforms; an end to the militarization of the country; the presentation alive of the…
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