The Peoples’ Front in Defense of Land and Water (FPDTA–MPT) is an organization made up of 11 Indigenous Nahua communities from the states of Morelos, Puebla, and Tlaxcala. Since 2012, they have organized to defend their territory and to promote and exercise their right to self-determination as Indigenous peoples in the face of companies and projects seeking to industrialize their lands—efforts that have resulted in environmental harm and contamination.
As part of their opposition to megaprojects in the region, members of the FPDTA–MPT have faced killings, threats, attacks, repression, defamation, harassment, and criminalization.
Since February 2020, PBI has formally accompanied the FPDTA, originally in the context of the Indigenous consultation regarding the Morelos Gas Pipeline affecting four communities in the municipality of Atlixco, Puebla.