Activists demand justice for environmentalist slain near Mexico City
ROGER MCKENZIE
FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2023
Photo: Bhargava Marripati / Creative Commons
ACTIVISTS on Thursday demanded justice for an environmentalist brutally killed near Mexico City earlier this month.
Alvaro Arvizu was attacked with an axe or hatchet on June 13 at an environmental research and education centre where he worked near the Iztaccihuati volcano, not far from the more famous Popocatepetl volcano.
Activists said that crime appeared to be retaliation for Mr Arvizu’s work in defending forests and water resources in the mountains that ring Mexico City.
Official reports initially suggested that he was killed during a robbery at the centre, but Pedro Moctezuma, its founder, disputed that idea.
Mr Moctezu
ma, who is now a researcher at the Autonomous Metropolitan University, a public institution that finances the centre, said: “We are certain that this was a planned, premeditated attack.”
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Another environmentalist who ran a similar centre nearby was killed the day before Mr Arvizu lost his life.
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