Protesters block work at Latin America's biggest wind farm

Political conflicts have prevented the start of work on Latin America’s largest wind farm, the 396MW Mareña Renovables project in Oaxaca, Mexico, which is being built by the turbine supplier Vestas.

Protesters from the San Dionisio del Mar communal assembly stopped 30 wind farm workers laying out routes for access roads in the Barra de Santa Teresa area.

The protesters say they have set up a permanent watch to make sure the contractors do not return.

The San Dionisio commune, which represents farmers from the Huave indigenous group, claims that a land-use contract signed in 2004 involved “deception and disinformation”, and that the number of turbines the consortium plans to install has been raised from an original 40 to 132.

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