Indigenous environmental activist murdered in northern Mexico

José Trinidad Baldenegro, an indigenous activist who fought against illegal logging, was shot to death and his house was set on fire by unknown assailants, confirmed this Saturday the prosecutor’s office of the northern state of chihuahua.

The agency informed journalists that the crime occurred last Monday in an isolated area in the south of the state, in the mountains inhabited by the Tarahumara Indians, also called Raramuri.

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“The southern district prosecutor’s office initiated the corresponding investigations to clarify the intentional homicide committed to the detriment of who was identified as José Trinidad B.”says a statement that by law reserves the surnames of the victims.

The 47-year-old activist was attacked by armed men when he went out to work in the bush. The aggressors then went to his house, threatened people who were in the area and set it on fire, according to the first investigations revealed by the prosecution.

The Tarahumara ethnic activist was the brother of another environmental defender from the same area, Isidro Baldenegro, who was also murdered on January 15, 2917.

The brothers denounced the illegal felling of forests at the hands of local bosses in collusion with alleged criminals.

The community is located in the area known as the Golden Triangle, where the majority of the population is Tarahumara, who have been fighting for legal ownership of their land for decades.

chihuahuabordering the United States, has been one of the states hardest hit by the wave of criminal violence that has hit Mexico for fifteen years.

Last Thursday, the European Parliament approved a resolution calling on the Mexican government to protect journalists and human rights defenders.

In the resolution, the main representative body of the European Union warns that since the July 2018 elections, when leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected, 47 journalists and 68 activists have been killed.

López Obrador rejected the call and accused the European deputies of “sheep” who join the “coup strategy” of their opponents.

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Source: Elcomercio

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