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Throughout Mexico, extractivist projects by companies in mining, tourism and forestry are invading communal and ejido territories. And throughout Mexico, the defenders of these territories are assassinated, disappeared, accused, criminalized. But they never stop resisting. Chihuahua is no exception: nineteen women and men from the Benito Juárez and Constitución ejidos in the northern desert of More

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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Victor Rodriguez.

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[1]https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/20/in-chihuahua-environmental-defenders-continue-to-resist-despite-criminalization-and-attacks/[2]https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/20/in-chihuahua-environmental-defenders-continue-to-resist-despite-criminalization-and-attacks/[3]https://www.counterpunch.org/