Article / Artículo Section: Social movements and rural culture Sección: Movimientos sociales y cultura rural doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5154/r.textual.2018.74.04 LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS FACING SOCIO- ENVIRONMENTAL RISK IN THE ALTO ATOYAC BASIN, TLAXCALA-PUEBLA LAS ORGANIZACIONES LOCALES FRENTE AL RIESGO SOCIOAMBIENTAL EN LA CUENCA DEL ALTO ATOYAC, TLAXCALA-PUEBLA Milton Gabriel Hernández García* ABSTRACT his article deals with the actions of a group of local organizations in the face of Tsocio-environmental risk, mainly caused by the pollution of a river in a region shared by the states of Puebla and Tlaxcala. I refer to the Coordinadora por un Atoyac con Vida (NGO for an Atoyac with Life), the Red de Jóvenes en Defensa de los Pueblos (Youth Network in the People’s Defense) and the Centro Fray Julián Garcés de Derechos Humanos A.C. (non-governmental Fray Julián Garcés Center for Human Rights), which for two decades have publicly denounced the devastating environmental impact that industrial development is causing in the Alto Atoyac Basin. KEYWORDS: Socio-environmental risk, pollution, Atoyac River, Tlaxcala, Puebla. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH). México.
[email protected] tel: 5578523451 (*corresponding author) Received: October 3, 2018 / Accepted: July 22, 2019 Please cite this article as follows (APA 6): Hernández García, M. G. (2019). Local organizations facing socio-environmental risk in the Alto Atoyac Basin, Tlaxcala-Puebla. Textual, 74, 185-227. doi: 10.5154.r.textual.2018.74.04 Textual 74, julio-diciembre 2019 | 185 | Movimientos sociales y cultura rural Local organizations facing socio-environmental risk... RESUMEN ste artículo versa sobre las acciones de un conjunto de organizaciones locales Efrente al riesgo socioambiental, causado principalmente por la contaminación de un río en una región compartida por los estados de Puebla y Tlaxcala.