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Article

16 Apr 2016

Author:
SinEmbargo; translation Elenor Weekes, Global Voices

The Mexican government's favourite contractor displaces indigenous people to build a motorway

…In a single morning, the García family saw the destruction of everything they'd spent their whole lives working for. On April 11, 2016, representatives of Governor…arrived in the Otomí community of San Francisco Xochicuautla in the municipality of Lerma. They came accompanied by 700 policemen. Without a judicial order, they planned to demolish the Garcias’ home…That same day, heavy machinery belonging to hundreds of members of the Mexican Secretariat of Public Security destroyed the Camp of Peace and Dignified Resistance. This camp was created to halt the construction of the Naucalpan-Toluca motorway, commissioned by Constructora Teya, which is affiliated with the businessman Juan Armando Hinojosa's Grupo Higa...Between 40 and 50 people, children and the elderly among them, were displaced by force, according to witnesses…The locals claim it was illegal, as they have recently won two acts of protection…