Danone

= Damages = Yet again government security forces are dispossessing and repressing people who almost a year ago closed the water bottling plant, Bonafont, owned by Danone.

This criminal company was stealing millions of litres of water a day in our region; drying up our wells and rivers.

After we kicked out Bonafont, we had started to build a life on its ruins, with healthcare, education, communication, agriculture, justice, and cooperative projects.

Now the government has responded by defending the interests of this company and supporting the resumption of plundering our water.

We denounce such governments that repress the people and protect big business. For them, money comes before life.

We demand the armed forces leave Altepelmecalli and return the facilities to the people.

- https://resistancewords.com/2022/02/15/urgent-mexican-national-guard-take-over-indigenous-community-centre/

When Truthout talked to Bertha just a few days before the military seizure of the space, she said, “We’ve changed a place of destruction into a place of life. We have farm animals here, meetings, cultural events, national forums. We provide health care and workshops, and have productive projects so we can be self-sustaining.”

The space also had a media center equipped for community television broadcasting, and a women’s rights organizing area. So far, the activists say they don’t know what the security forces have done with all their animals, tools, computers, cameras and library of books.

“We closed the company … so they couldn’t steal one more drop of water from us…. As Nahua people, we have been building our own way of life for a very long time,” Campeche explained. He said the arrival of foreign companies and other factors had made that difficult, so it was significant when 20 different communities came together to shut Bonafont down.

“In assemblies, people said that what they needed was a place for health care, education and trade-based workshops, so that’s what we did with the old Bonafont plant,” he said.

https://earthfirstjournal.news/2022/02/20/mexican-forces-evict-indigenous-activists-who-took-over-water-bottling-plant/