“Anti-Dam Resistance Faces Death and Detention in Guerrero, Mexico”, 12 of January 2018

As the Mexican village of La Concepción was still celebrating a local festival, unidentified armed men attacked the local unit of the … community police in the early hours of Jan. 7. The attack left two community police and six of the armed aggressors dead, and was swiftly followed by a violent state crackdown… The attack targeted members of the community police force known as CRAC-PC (Regional Coordination of Community Authorities – Community Police), along with members of the Council of Ejidos (communal lands) and Communities Opposing the Dam La Parota (CECOP), a local people’s organization that has spearheaded the resistance to a proposed hydroelectric power plant to be built by the … (CFE, Federal Commission of Electricity) on the Papagayo River... [L]ater the same day a large number of state and federal police, as well as members of the army, were mobilized in and around La Concepción...State forces launched a second round of violent attacks against the residents of La Concepción, killing another three members of CRAC-PC. Police then arrested two key spokespersons of CECOP, Marco Antonio Suástegi Muñoz and his brother Vicente Suástegi Muñoz, and 30 other members of CRAC-PC...