The New Zipline (Tirolesa) at Piedra Volada, Copper Canyon

2010-09-25
By Dave Hensleigh
Posted in Copper Stories, Our Blog, Special Trips

Post Tagged with Authentic Copper Canyon, Copper Canyon Gondola, Copper Canyon Train Trips, Dave Hensleigh, Divisadero, Piedra Volada, tirolesa, zipline

One Response on “The New Zipline (Tirolesa) at Piedra Volada, Copper Canyon”

Ryan Maness says:

September 30, 2010 at 4:23 pm

From the outside looking in this tourist attraction looks great and would be good for Mexico’s declining tourism with all of the drug related violence, but what people do not see is the ugly side of it, the human rights violations. There are 203 Tarahumara families that have been negatively affected by this project. One of the most affected communities, Mogotavo, the Tarahumara have been told to move so that a luxury hotel and restaurant can be built. In three other communities families are being threatened and forced to leave their ancestral lands with no compensation for their loss to make way for an extreme sports complex. My family and I live in Creel, we hear and see the other side of the coin. We build clean drinking water systems for the Tarahumara in remote mountain villages. For more information on what is really happening, read the full story here:http://www.elagora.com.mx/Robaron-y-desalojaron-a-vecinos.html and here:http://oaxacalibre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2820:proyecto-turistico-intenta-despojar-a-raramuris-de-la-tarahumara&catid=38:informacion

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