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Mexican communities organizing against wind farms
2013-06-18 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: "We can`t sow our fields, which they have rented for next to nothing. What good do we get out of it?" Guadalupe Ramrez complained about wind farms operating in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Ramrez said, "the governments play favourites with big business; our land produces more than what the companies are offering ... They said they would come to help us, but that`s a lie," this 62-year-old Zapotec Indian told IPS when she and other campesinos came to Mexico City from the municipality...
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