...On November 23, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project posted: “We express concern about the eviction by officers (elementos) of the National Guard (GN Mexico) of the Apatlaco blockade/camp (planton) which they had maintained for 4 years in opposition to the Huexca thermoelectric plant and the PIM.”

The PIM refers to the Morelos Integral Project (Proyecto Integral Morelos), an energy megaproject that includes a gas and steam generating plant, a gas pipeline that crosses three states, and an aqueduct.

The Frente De Pueblos Morelos Puebla Tlaxcala (FPDTA-MPT) explains that the camp had been in place on both sides of the Cuautla River to stop the water from the river being diverted into the aqueduct.

El Financiero reports: “Around 3:00 a.m., the National Guard, with the support of elements of the State Security Commission (CES), arrived with heavy machinery to begin removing the tarps, tents and other objects that the residents placed.”

That article adds: “On this site, located on the banks of the Cuautla River, were the tents in which there were guards to prevent the connection of the pipeline to bring water to the thermoelectric plant, which would be used to cool the turbines.”

Termometro en linea further reports: “After evicting them at least two machines entered to continue with the works of the aqueduct through which they intend to take the water from this river and from the sewage treatment plant to cool the turbines of the Huexca thermoelectric plant [which could] start operating as of next December.”...