Award-Winning Mexico Indigenous Environmental Activist Murdered

[Judi Lynn]

Award-Winning Mexico Indigenous Environmental Activist Murdered



Isidro Baldenegro Lopez, accepting his award at the 2005 Goldman Prize award ceremony.
| Photo: Goldman Prize

Published 17 January 2017 (5 hours 10 minutes ago)


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Isidro Baldenegro Lopez, an award-winning Indigenous environmental activist who fought against deforestation in Mexico, was assassinated last weekend, Proceso reports.

Baldenegro, the 2005 recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize for North America, was found dead outside a relative’s house in Chihuahua. Witnesses claim the murder suspects are linked with known assassins of other Indigenous environmental activists in the region.

Baldenegro will be buried in Coloradas de la Virgen, the land belonging to his native Tarahumara community, which he and his family defended for decades.

In March 2003, he was arrested for 15 months for organizing protests against unregulated logging in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Two decades prior, his father was shot and killed in front of him shortly after, leading to mass protests against logging corporations.

More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Award-Winning-Mexico-Indigenous-Environmental-Activist-Murdered-20170117-0041.html

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Isidro Baldenegro Lopez, in the red hat.

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1. Tragic

A great loss.

[Judi Lynn]

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Goldman prize winner Isidro Baldenegro López, who was known for his activism against illegal logging, was shot dead months after Berta Cáceres was murdered

Nina Lakhani in Mexico City
Wednesday 18 January 2017 13.14 EST

An indigenous Mexican activist who received the prestigious Goldman environmental prize for his crusade against illegal logging has been shot dead, the second award-winner to have been murdered in less than 12 months.

Isidro Baldenegro López, a subsistence farmer and leader of the Tarahumara community in the country’s northern Sierra Madre mountain region, was shot at a relative’s home on Sunday.

Baldenegro received the Goldman prize in 2005 for his non-violent campaign to protect ancient forests from deforestation in a region plagued by violence, drug trafficking and corruption.


According to local reports the indigenous leader, who was in his 50s, had only recently returned to his community Coloradas de la Virgen in Chihuahua after a long period in exile due to threats against him and his family.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/18/isidro-baldenegro-lopez-killed-goldman-environmental-prize-mexico-berta-caceres