The Pojom II hydroelectric project facilities are set on fire. This is one of three proposed hydroelectric projects in the northern Huehuetenango region of Guatemala that has been opposed by many of the local community.
Four months after internationally known Honduran environmental activist Berta Caceres is murdered, a second woman and environmental activist from the same organization is also murdered in Honduras. The second murdered woman, Lesbia Janeth, was working to stop the construction of a dam in La Paz, Honduras.
Don Sebastian Alonzo Juan, 72, is shot and killed while participating in a peaceful community demonstration in Yichkisis, village of San Mateo Ixtatan, Huehuetenango, Guatemala, against three local hydroelectric projects. The shots are reportedly fired by the private security guards hired by the hydroelectric project company.
A fight over water resources erupts in Oaxaca, Mexico, on May 17 between neighboring community members, leaving one dead, several injured, and numerous houses destroyed. The conflict began when one community, San Pedro y San Pablo Ayutla, connected to another community’s (Tamazul?pam del Esp?ritu Santo) water pipes without permission.
Neri and Domingo Esteban Pedro were found murdered near the San Andres hydroelectric project on the Yal Witz River in western Guatemala. The brothers were vocal opponents of the project.
A small community, San Pablo de Amali, in Bolivar province, Ecuador, resists a hydroelectric project on the local Dulcepamba River. The resistance by the community is generally peaceful, but some community members are arrested for acts of sabotage and destruction. In support of the developer, Hidrotambo S.A., the national government sends troops to the community on several instances, resulting in violent clashes. In 2012 the developer initiates construction. In 2015, the community claims that this construction causes severe flooding during…
Samir Flores Soberanes, an indigenous environmental activist from Mexico, is killed in his home for his opposition to the Proyecto Integral Morelos, a thermoelectric plant and pipeline that threatened local water and land resources. The Moreles state prosecutor claims that the murder has nothing to do with the thermoelectric plant project. The People?s Front in Defence of the Land and Water for the states of Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala (FPDTA) state that the only enemies that Soberanes had were those…
Two people are shot by police and paramilitary groups responding to the protests of citizens who have been without electricity or water for several weeks as a result of ongoing political fighting at that national level in Venezuela.
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.
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.