Territorio e identidad: la disociación imposible en la defensa de Tacushcalco

Abstract

In 1932, at the beat of the Volcan Izalco’s eruption, the indigenous peasantry of Izalco region drove an uprising which ended in the etnocide that marked El Salvador’s history. Today, the grandchildren of this opposition are still defending this territory from the governmental racism and the global extractive model organized in the platform called Movimiento Ciudadano por la Defensa de Tacushcalco. In 2017 the company Fénix S. A. de C. V. launched the construction of the urban project Acrópoli-Sonsonate without environmental and cultural permits over the sacred place of Tacushcalco, destroying 3000 years’ worth of and exacerbating the already-existing pollution of Ceniza’s river produced by the sugarcane industry. The platform raises awareness of the environmental and cultural destruction, the close link between the historical usurpation of indigenous land in Sonsonate, the environmental deterioration and the perpetuation of the cultural extermination.