Disputes for control of Lake Texcoco, Mexico

Abstract

Central Mexico has been an area that has been heavily intervened by different territorial projects. The draining of what was once Mexico's lake system has meant dispossession for the people, both of the land and of their sources of life, in addition to the environmental damage that this entails. Here we will briefly present how the space of the peoples of Lake Texcoco was shaped by the different forms of dispossession, from the colonial period to the current megaprojects, but we will also show the struggles and forms of resistance that the peasants have used to maintain their way of life linked to the land and the lacustrine environment.