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“Bosques Si, Tala No”: The Uprising Of Cherán K’Eri, Ray Tarango
“Bosques Si, Tala No”: The Uprising Of Cherán K’Eri, Ray Tarango
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In the spring of 2011, the indigenous community of Cherán K’eri in western Mexico rose up to protect their forests. Organized crime, and its allies, had taken over this town during the previous decade and had logged significant portions of its communal forests in the surrounding hills. This thesis examines the following questions: How do townspeople recall their experience under a narco state? What pushed this indigenous community to organize to protect the forest despite the threat of violence? What was it about this landscape in particular that brought people together? Previous research into this uprising has overlooked the …