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Stop the Parota hydroelectric project in the State of Guerrero

A first victory for the movement that opposes the construction of the dam La Parota in Guerrero (Southeast Mexico). A federal judge Livia Larumbe Radilla, required the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), the immediate suspension of all work for the hydroelectric power station (which would flood an area of \u200b\u200b17 thousand 300 hectares and forced 25 000 people forcibly to emigrate). In mid-August the farmers Víctor García Robles, Reyes Clemente Bailon, Calixto Petronila Valente, Gregorio García Vázquez, Ricardo García Valente, and Juventino García Vázquez Vázquez Ángel Valente requested the protection of the Federal Justice against the construction of the dam. According to local people, gathered in Consejo de Comunidades y Ejidos Opositores La Parota (Cecop), the hydroelectric plant would adversely affect the life of the area and preservation of the Papagayo River. The court granted their request, ruling that until it is pronounced the verdict "things are kept in the state in which they find themselves and the authorities refrain from authorizing exploitation and use of national waters of the Papagayo River hydroelectric project La Parota, for that would cause irreversible damage to the complainants who live in the district of Cacahuatepec. Basically, if work begins, even the court in favor of the opposition would be useless, because the environment would be seriously compromised in any case. It is not a final victory, then. Just stop a pending prosecution.
The grant for the construction of the dam is 2005. The Parota has already made three victims (between opponents). Recently, Amnesty International has devoted a report to the case ( Human Rights at Risk in La Parota Dam Project ) and asked to sign an appeal .
against the project have spoken to two representatives of the United Nations in recent weeks have visited the region of the State of Guerrero.
According to Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Special Rapporteur on indigenous peoples, a Member State "can not ignore the rights of the population affected by the negative effects of a mega-project. And, in this case, not having done so from the beginning has led to movements and conflicts that are experienced with respect to the project of La Parota. "From a technical point of view-added-La Parota appears not so important. Does not respond to a need for the country. The ability to generate electricity installed in Mexico, in fact, exceeds the needs of the country. " Miloon Kothari, UN special rapporteur on the right to housing, has asked the Mexican government to consider the possibility of building smaller plants that can be managed by the communities themselves. "We live-held-in a situation of social apartheid, with the specimen forms of development that make the deepest conflicts."