Hound Dog
Sep 13, 2009, 3:23 PM
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Re: [Graydon] Indian Land Grab on Michoacan Coast
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Graydon:
This sort of dispute over land is commonplace among the idigenous people of Mexico. In fact, in Chiapas, where we maintain a residence, these disputes over land rights, land usage and intercommunity privileges are so common and so violent that these stories hardly make the news outside of local rags except when disputants are foreigners. These disputes, when they flare up, can become extremely dangerous and many are killed before things settle back into civility as before.
The reason this thing on the Michoacan Coast became public in my opinion is because foreigners operating an RV Park were involved. Normally, you would not even hear of the heads chopped off by incensed locals nurturing long held greivances against their brethren except for the fact that the lands of foreigners are being confiscated.
I still remember the B&B and macadamia orchard confiscated by the Zapatistas in Ocosingo a few years ago where the Zapatistas waited until the macadamia trees were in full fruition commercially speaking, confiscated the orchard from the foreign owners and then laid waste to it. If you try to find justice in these social movements, you will go to your grave displeased with humanity.
(This post was edited by Hound Dog on Sep 14, 2009, 7:06 AM)
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