Mothers and the Mexican Antinuclear Power Movement

by Velma García-Gorena

In the early 1970s construction began on a nuclear power plant at Laguna Verde in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Initially, most local citizens were largely unconcerned with the prospect of having the nuclear plant in their community. With the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, however, residents' complacency toward the power plant soon turned to opposition. Protest groups such as the Madres Veracruzanas emerged to join existing environmental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816518750
• ISBN13: 9780816518753
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"