Commission of Peaceful Resistance of San Rafael Pie de la Cuesta (CRP)

The CRP, founded in 2006 in the Municipality of San Rafael Pie de la Cuesta (San Marcos), focuses on the investigation and reporting about a particular hydroelectric project, whose proposed construction in early 2008 was announced by the mayor in September 2007. The project was based on another earlier one that had not been realised, and about which the municipality’s population had not been informed.
We began accompanying members of the CRP in December 2007, after some of them were attacked and interrogated by police officers during a meeting held by the organisation and following the incident several members later received threats. As a result of a positive evaluation of their security, the accompaniment has been in the follow up phase since November 2008. We continue this accompaniment as part of our objective to accompany the social processes of defence and promotion of human rights relating to the use and exploitation of natural resources, in particular water and mineral resources.