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The research was funded by grants from the Spanish Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), the Foreign Secretary of Mexico (SRE), and the Iberoamerican University Postgraduate Association (AUIP).
Notes
1 In this research all the interviews were carried out under conditions of anonymity. We mark quotations from them with only a label after each testimony.
2 We interviewed mostly inhabitants of the two main villages involved in the struggles, Coín in Spain and San Gaspar de los Reyes in Mexico, place at the center of the contention. However, there were people joining the fight from other villages or rural areas, and we took note of their experiences too.
3 “People up here” means the people living in the mountains, while “people down there” refers to those living on the plain. The latter was officially the beneficiaries of the water of Riaño's reservoir water.
4 Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE).
5 Mainly projects related to local organic food production, a weekly farmers’ market, and several activities to pass down to children and young people the values rediscovered during the conflict.
6 The dam was built in the sixties, but it was inoperative until 1984, when the first democratic Spanish Government decided to close the dam, flooding the villages.
7 Extract from an interview with an activist of the Red Andaluza por una Nueva Cultura del Agua (Andalusian Network for a New Water Culture), conducted in Arcos de la Frontera, Spain in April 2010.