In December 2016, on the way to a community meeting where the next steps in the campaign against the Agua Prieta US-Mexico gas pipeline were to be discussed, indigenous activist and lawyer Anabela Carlón Flores was kidnapped.
Although she was released the same day, her abductors continued to hold her husband. ‘During that time, they sent me a document asking me to withdraw our injunction against the pipeline,’ Anabela explains. But she didn’t back down. ‘Since I didn’t know where he was or if there was a guarantee he would come back alive, why should I sign?’
