Award-Winning Mexico Indigenous Environmental Activist Murdered [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Award-Winning Mexico Indigenous Environmental Activist Murdered



Isidro Baldenegro Lopez, accepting his award at the 2005 Goldman Prize award ceremony.
| Photo: Goldman Prize

Published 17 January 2017 (5 hours 10 minutes ago)


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Isidro Baldenegro Lopez, an award-winning Indigenous environmental activist who fought against deforestation in Mexico, was assassinated last weekend, Proceso reports.

Baldenegro, the 2005 recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize for North America, was found dead outside a relative’s house in Chihuahua. Witnesses claim the murder suspects are linked with known assassins of other Indigenous environmental activists in the region.

Baldenegro will be buried in Coloradas de la Virgen, the land belonging to his native Tarahumara community, which he and his family defended for decades.

In March 2003, he was arrested for 15 months for organizing protests against unregulated logging in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Two decades prior, his father was shot and killed in front of him shortly after, leading to mass protests against logging corporations.

More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Award-Winning-Mexico-Indigenous-Environmental-Activist-Murdered-20170117-0041.html

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Isidro Baldenegro Lopez, in the red hat.