Mexico peasants take up machetes against Acapulco dam
A two-hour Jeep ride inland from Acapulco, with its fast-food chains and high-rise seafront hotels, Gregorio Garcia’s family lives a simpler life in the tropical forest of southwestern Mexico.
A stream provides water, the soil bursts with squash and fruit trees and the forest provides fuel and medicinal leaves. Lunch is thick maize tortillas, salted deer meat, fresh chile sauce and coconut milk. Even the air smells sweet.
Yet this tiny paradise could soon be nearly 500 feet (150 m) underwater in the basin of a huge dam that will power new floodlit, air-conditioned hotels as Acapulco expands.
“They say the dam will bring benefits, but not for us. We will be completely under water,” Garcia said, his black eyes glistening with anger as he sat by his roomy adobe and wood home surrounded by pigs, goats and giggling children.
Due to be completed in 2012, La Parota will be one of Mexico’s biggest dams, flooding swathes of forest and subsistence farmland around the Papagayo River with a basin ten times the size of Acapulco’s famous bay.
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Mexico peasants take up machetes against Acapulco dam
A two-hour Jeep ride inland from Acapulco, with its fast-food chains and high-rise seafront hotels, Gregorio Garcia's family lives a simpler life in the tropical forest of southwestern Mexico.
A stream provides water, the soil bursts with squash and fruit trees and the forest provides fuel and medicinal leaves. Lunch is thick maize tortillas, salted deer meat, fresh chile sauce and coconut milk. Even the air smells sweet.
Yet this tiny paradise could soon be nearly 500 feet (150 m) underwater in the basin of a huge dam that will power new floodlit, air-conditioned hotels
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Farmers who originally lived in the area claimed that they never agreed to sell their territory. Groups of peasants stormed the area in and around Tres Vidas in recent days, seizing land they claim was stolen
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The poachers wasted some 1,800 pounds (800 kg) of valuable turtle flesh which was found on the sand and
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