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Feature Articles:
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Sierra Tarahumara: Indigenous Peoples, Species and Forests Struggle to
Survive
by Greg Bloom, FNS Editor
"Their stories were
terrifying," says Randall Gingrich of what he heard in the early 1990s when
he first entered two southern Sierra Tarahumara counties where there were three to four murders
per week related to the growing of drugs and drug trafficking, illegal forestry
and land fraud. It was "a culture of repression," he says,
orchestrated by a powerful family whose "goal is total domination" of
the area's economic resources and potential.
Tarahumara:
Community Activists Jailed: Another Montiel-Cabrera Embarrassment for
Mexico
by Greg Bloom, FNS Editor
In a situation reminiscent of the high-profile case against Mexican
indigenous activists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera, Isidro
Baldenegro and another man, Hermenegildo Rivas Carrillo, were arrested on
March 29, 2003 for the possession of illegal weapons. Prior to their
arrests, Baldenegro's brother and a fourth man were imprisoned in
Chihuahua as well.
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