Indigenous rights activist killed in northern Mexico
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
MARCH 12, 2022 11:31 PM
MEXICO CITY An Indigenous rights activist who campaigned against illegal logging has been killed in northern Mexico, prosecutors say, five years after his activist brother also was slain.
Prosecutors in the border state of Chihuahua state said Friday that Jose Trinidad Baldenegro was attacked when he left his house in the settlement of Colorada de la Virgen to go to work on Monday. Witnesses heard shots and saw several gunmen. Hours later, the house was burned.
Baldenegro, 47, was part of the Tarahumara people who for years have fought illegal logging and mining in their territory, where drug gangs often cut down forest to plant narcotics.
His brother, Isidro Baldenegro, whose campaign against illegal logging won him a Goldman Prize for environmental activism in 2005, was murdered in 2017. A year later, Julián Carrillo, another Tarahumara leader, was slain. Four of Carrillo’s relatives had been killed.
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José Trinidad Baldenegro, an environmental activist in Chihuahua, is murdered
March 12, 2022 by americanpost
Trinidad Baldenegro was murdered in the community of Coloradas de la Virgen, municipality of Guadalupe y Calvo, in chihuahuafive years after the murder of his brother, Isidro.
According to the report of the Chihuahua Prosecutor’s Officeon Monday, March 7, the 47-year-old environmentalist left his home to go to his workplace and moments later shots were heard.
According to reports, residents of the house heard the detonations of firearms, so when they went out to see what was happening, they saw a group of armed people on the mountain, who they threatened to kill if they stayed in place.
“A group of eight armed men knocked on the door and told them to leave, since more people would come and kill everyone present, so they managed to leave the place,” the police said. Attorney General of Chihuahua.
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