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PBI-Mexico concerned by 226 attacks against community defenders opposed to Interoceanic Corridor megaproject

The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project is one of the 23 organizations in the Civilian Observation Mission (MCO), documenting human rights violations in the context of the Interoceanic Corridor megaproject. along with Union of Indigenous Communities of the Northern Isthmus (UCIZONI), the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHHRC), Services for an Alternative Education A.C. (EDUCA) and Espacio OSC.

During the presentation of his report in the city of Oaxaca, the Civilian Observation Mission concluded that “between May 2021 and May 2024 the Mexican State used authoritarian methods to impose the project, which is not only about a highway or a corridor, but that ‘there is a background that includes the militarization of the indigenous territories of the Oaxacan Isthmus where local and state political actors linked to organized crime have been involved in the development of the Indigenous Territory. dedicated to looking after the interests of transnational corporations.’”

The Interoceanic Corridor is a megaproject that has been described by a proponent as including “two deep sea ports, railroads, highways, three airports (Minatitlán, Ixtepec and Huatulco), a gas pipeline and a fiber optic network.”

The Calgary-based company TC Energy appears to play the pivotal role of building a controversial offshore pipeline that would connect to the pipeline that would cross the interoceanic corridor, warns PBI Canada.

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PBI-Mexico concerned by 226 attacks against community defenders opposed to Interoceanic Corridor megaproject

 

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