Opposition to the wind-power project in San Dionisio del Mar
Alba Cruz Ramos is a lawyer who works with the Oaxaca-based Gobixha Committee for the Comprehensive Defence of Human Rights (Comité de Defensa Integral de Derechos Humanos Gobixha, A.C.; Codigo-DH). Among the emblematic cases in Codigo-DH’s load are the acts of aggression against the community defenders residing in San Dionisio del Mar, in the region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where some 50% of the community’s inhabitants speak the indigenous language Ikojts (Huave)1. Since the beginning of 2011 they have undertaken a fight in defence of their land and territory, after learning of the impacts of the wind-farm project managed by the company Mareña Renovables in Barra de Santa Teresa.
Alba Cruz: “The communities will lose their source of food and work”, Num. 28, march 2013
1 Codigo-DH (Dec. 2012), La situación de los Derechos Humanos en Oaxaca: Grandes pendientes, p.70. In Spanish only, available from www.codigodh.org/2012/12/10/conoce-el-informe-la-situacion-de-los-derechos-humanos-en-oaxaca-grandes-pendientes/