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Weekly Report - 17 September 2020 (WR-20-37)
MEXICO: Political tensions burst over fatal dam protests
Before coming to power in December 2018, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador seized upon incidents like the deadly protests that took place last week over water rights in the north-eastern state of Chihuahua as confirmation of a neo-liberal ruling elite hopelessly out of touch with the country’s poor majority resorting to repression to assert its authority. Now that he is in office, López Obrador has criticised the local farmers who seized control of the state’s La Boquilla dam from national guard officers, setting in motion a string of events with fatal consequences, by claiming that the water protests were unjustified, and accusing the political opposition of fomenting the protests for electoral gain.
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