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Article

14 Aug 2008

Author:
Karen Trejo, Latinamerica Press / Noticias Aliadas

Wind parks take over indigenous lands [Mexico]

A wind power project on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southeastern Mexico has stripped massive amounts of land and natural resources from hundreds of indigenous campesinos in Oaxaca. Those affected are mostly from non-Spanish speaking indigenous communities. Members were manipulated into giving up their lands in up to 60-year tenancy contracts through misinformation…[A] team of lawyers…have filed a lawsuit to annul at least 185 tenancy contracts for the wind park construction by transnational companies…including Iberdrola, Endesa, Preneal, Gamesa and Union Fenosa…[T]he companies say that they operate in Mexico backed by an agreement signed by the Federal Electricity Commission…