A bomb is found in a water supply pump station along a canal, however it is defused prior to causing any damage to the system. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is blamed for the attempted attack.
A controversial pipeline is attacked once again, causing oil to spill into a local stream, polluting the water supply used by 4700 families. The Ca?o Lim?n?Cove?as oil pipeline has come under attack hundreds of times in an attempt by the local population to disrupt and halt natural resource extraction by multinational companies. One source reports that since the pipeline was built in 1985 it has been attacked 972 times.
Research by a professor at the University of Regina, Canada, finds that between 2007 and 2017 at least 61 Guatemalan activists were murdered for their work protecting rivers, lands, and the people who depend on them for their livelihoods.
A bomb placed on a water meter in Cielo Gonzalez Villa, Neiva, Colombia detonates, killing four police officers. On the same day, another bomb placed under a car detonates in front of a building occupied by the local mayor, injuring ten people. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is suspected of the crimes.
Over 100 villagers and farmers from the local community near Lake Paron in Peru use force to remove employees and take over the outlet controls of the lake after the lake had been drained by nearly 50% by the operator of the controls, a subsidiary of Duke Energy International, for hydropower operations.
On Thursday, in a rural area of the municipality of Cajibio, Cauca, Colombia, Army troops from the 29th Brigade locate and safely defuse three cylinder bombs suspected to be planted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s (FARC) 6th Front. According to authorities, the explosives were going to be used against the town’s aqueduct. No casualties or damages are reported and no group claims responsibility for the attempted bombing attack.
A bomb planted at a water treatment plant explodes damaging the plant and wounding two police officers in Villavicencio, Colombia. The town is left without water supply.
In the Q’anjob’al and Chug Territory of northern Huehuetenango, Guatemala, three proposed hydroelectric projects supported by the national government incite strong local opposition. The hydroelectric construction company hires armed private security personnel to quell confrontations and acts of vandalism.
Communities concerned with water contamination of Lake Conococha, both a water source and cultural icon, are met with violence from local police forces as they protest gold mining in the region. At least one person is reported dead and four others injured from the interaction.
Environmental activist, Tomas Garcia, dies after being shot by the Honduran military during a peaceful protest of the Agua Zarca Dam project.