“If “La Parota” is built we won’t have anything to live for, because all of us will be without work, without food, and homeless, every thing will be lost, everything will die; the trees, the palms, the lemon and specially the small amount of fish that we catch. Says Albertina Florencio, 48, very worried. She is a neighbor of “La Tasajera” a small town in Aguascalientes.

Albertina is one of the 250 people who left their jobs, thier homes and everything with the only purpose of being at the complaints and alternate activities to the “World Water Summit ” which started last Thursday 16th in Mexico city.

Albertina says she lives from the field and that she doesn´t know how many people is being affected but they are too many, and she can assure they are afraid Fox´s government build the dike because it will intubate all the water from papagayo´s river, a very important source in the zone.

Alter her participation in the march with another 15 thousand people, she and the other farmers and fishers from Aguascalientes and Guerrero spend the night at the Revolution monument in Mexico City.

Albertina says she has been fighting since 3 years ago “sometimes we are scared because police has weapons and we don’t” says.

Dionisio Hernandez Marcos, 54 born in Dos Arroyos Guerrero, denounced that since 3 years they started the protest against the construction and they have been checking constantly the zone to avoid the machines start their works.

“They started the Works but a judge gave the order to stop the work and ever since then we are keeping the protest because what they are doing is not fair, it will be terrible for 20 thousand people” says convinced.

Paula Quiñones del Carmen, 26, denounces that there had been two dead men already due to this problem: Tomas Cruz Zamora and Eduardo Maya “who were murdered for being part of this protest but we can’t prove anything”.

The store of the construction of this dike has been in the media for a few years but in the present the authorities have done nothing, to solve the problem.

The march was last Thursday and more than 360 organizations were part of it, they came from places lake Michoacan, Guerrero, Coahuila, Quintan Roo, Tlaxcala, Puebla, Chihuahua, Hidalgo and of course the state of Mexico and Mexico city.

Xochil Campos, 46, indigenous of Puebla, assure that the problem of water in her region is serious and affects also the State of Veracruz. She asked to the president Vicente Fox “to go to the mountain range so he could see how hard it is and convince himself to don’t give the water to the big companies as he wants to do it”.

“Certanly Fox is finishing off with the farmer towns and he doesn’t care the way we die of starvation and that’s why we won’t let them build La Paorta even if we have to lose our lives in that” said Hernandez Marcos.

06/LG