DEFENSORES DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE DE LOS TUXTLAS, A. C.

                                                                      ecological activism
ABOUT US
Who are we?

Foremost, we are our Affiliate Members and our Sponsors.

Without their generosity, DEMATAC could not exist.
"Ecocide"
Words from our President

DEMATAC is not simply an association. It is not simply an alliance of dedicated people united by the
same cause. DEMATAC is more. It is a concept - an idea and an ideal, embodying a universal truth;
the truth that by our failure to protect, by our failure to defend, our natural environment, by
allowing it to be destroyed bit by bit as we are now doing, we are destroying civilization as we know
it. We are, in fact, committing ecological suicide - ecocide.
The genesis of “Defensores Del Medio Ambiente de Los Tuxtlas, A.C.”, (DEMATAC), was the
result of a campaign initiated in July of 2004 by one of our founders, against the devastation being
caused by strip mining in Catemaco, Veracruz. With the attention generated by the mass media
and through the support of many of the citizens of Catemaco and environmentalists both national
and international, hearings were held with the municipal government of Catemaco and in the
federal environmental control offices of SEMARNAT (Secretary of Environment and Natural
Resources) in the state capital of Xalapa; attended by representatives of various Mexican ecological
agencies including: SEMARNAT, PROFEPA, CNA, Reserva de la Biosfera Los Tuxtlas, the
Municipal President of Catemaco, and by the press. The results were positive. The battle is not
over – the war has just begun; the war against all who encourage environmental destruction,
under whatever pretext, and against the bureaucracy and apathy that supports, daily, this
destruction.  We must expose the environmental criminals and we must challenge government and
industry when they fail to live up to their mandate to safeguard our environment and our future.

    DEMATAC was chartered in Catemaco, Veracruz on September 25, 2004, as a
    nonprofit environmental civil association dedicated to recuperating the ecological balance
    and protecting the environment of Los Tuxtlas, and independent of economic or political
    interests with any government, political party, or religious institution.  DEMATAC’s principal
    objectives are:

    a) Address complaints, initiate investigations, and file grievances  with the respective government
    agencies, regarding environmental threats in the region of Los Tuxtlas, using the diffusion of
    information to inform, council, negotiate, and propose viable solutions to environmental
    degradation, as well as high-profile, non-violent civil resistance to raise the level and quality of
    public debate and to promote prompt action by respective government agencies.

    b) Promote projects such as reforestation, cleanup of lagoons, rivers, beaches, roads and streets,
    and the regional environment in general.

    c) Dissemination of information and publicity regarding the biodiversity of Los Tuxtlas and the
    importance of protecting it.

    d) Promote & provide education to raise public & governmental environmental awareness.

    We can not do this alone. We need the help and the support, economic and active, of the
    community, of the residents of Los Tuxtlas, and of environmentalists everywhere. We need your
    help.
      
    With this object in mind, we invite you to join DEMATAC.
ALL
DONATIONS TO
DEMATAC ARE
USED FOR THE
PROJECTS &
ACTIVITIES OF
DEMATAC.

THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS &
ACTIVE
MEMBERS
SERVE
VOLUNTARILY
& WITHOUT PAY
Don Agustín Moreno B.
& Dora  El Azuzul,
Catemaco, Ver.
Board of Directors
President:          Lic. Jessica Hitandegüi Swanson Santiago

Vice President:        L. C. Oscar Castelan Tenorio

Secretary:                 Dora Luz Santiago Molina

Treasurer:                L. C. Rogelio Hernández V.

Board Members:

María Gabriela Garcia Valero

Ing. Juan Raúl Luna García

Eduardo Alvarez Ríos, Economist
Dr. Ben
Doug on the Laguna
Sontecomapan
International Fund-raiser
Douglas D. Redmond
Email: dooglass@hotmail.com
Paco in Los Bajos de
Mimiagua
Active Members

Luís Barragan, Student, San Diego, California, USA
Sacha Becker, Bahia Escondida, Pozolapan, Veracruz, Mexico
Dra. Lorelei Bojórquez Galván, M.V.Z., Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
Natalia Castelán Garcia, Student,  Minatitlan, Veracruz, Mexico
Raul Cabañas Giffard, Herpetologist, Xalapa, Veracuz, Mexico
Ursula Dusch, Student, Erlangen, Germany
Marisol fentanes Pieda, Veracruz, veracruz, Mexico
Victor Manuel Fentanes Méndez, Veracruz, Veracruz, México
Dr. Christoph Ganzoni, Medical Doctor, Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico
Dulce María Geronimo Jiménez, Nutritionist, Minatitlán, Veracruz, Mexico
Francisco Gómes Marín, Biologist, catemaco, Veracruz, México
Ing. Viridiana Mercedes Hernandez Martinez, Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico
Akiko Matsumoto, International Relations, Tokyo, Japan
Javier Martínez Jaramillo, Medical Doctor, Minatitlán, Veracruz, Mexico
Jorge Rafael Martínez Azuela, Coordinador de Zona 30/20 IVEA, San Andrés
Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico
Daniel Antonio Oviedo Betaza, Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico
María Piedra Rojas, Vracruz, Veracruz, México
Juan Rafael Pérez Catemaxca, Promotions, CONEVyT - IVEA, San Andrés
Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico
Irma Ramón Cervantes, launch owner, Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico
Oscar Daniel Saenz Trolle, Minatitlan, Veracruz, Mexico
José Vicente Facio, Biologist, Coatzacoalcos, veracruz, México
Esteban Villegas Velazquez, Psychologist, Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico
Esteban Villegas V.
Psychologist
Affiliate Members & Sponsors

Jeb Allran, www.coffeeam.com, Canton, Georgia, USA           
Barry Bragger, Primestone,  & Stacey Caren (Social Worker), Torrington,
Connecticut, USA
Lic. Francisco Luis Briseño Cortes, Xalapa, Veracruz
Madeleine Carlton Feria, Catmaco, Veracruz, México
Gabriel Camacho, Violin Construction & Restoration, Mexico, D. F.
Dr. José Cisneros Espinosa, PhD, Professor, Universidad dé las Americas -
Puebla, San Andrés Cholula, Puebla
Ing. Tonanzin Cofio Gómez, Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz
Richard R. Cordero, Color  Publishing Specialist / Photographer, California,
USA
Alejandro Cortés Ochoa, Restaurant La Casita, Catemaco, Ver., México
Javier Fco. Cruz Cárdnas, Compu Cat, Catemaco, Veracruz
Julia del Carmen Cruz Cruz, Restaurant La Casita, Catemaco, Ver, México
Judy Dorsey, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Ing. Rafael Fararoni, Comercializadora de Cervezas de Los Tuxtlas, S. A de C.
V., San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz, México
Don Gringo, Blogger, Satirist & Satyr, Catemaco, Veracruz
Prof. Fernando Hernández Rodríguez, Catemaco, Ver., México
Hotel & Cafe Catemaco, Catemaco, Veracruz
Hotel del Lago, Catemaco, Veracruz, México
Hotel de los Pérez, San Andrés Tuxtlas, Veracruz, México
Hotel del Parque, San Andrés Tuxtlas, Veracruz, México
Hotel Los Arcos, Catemaco, Veracruz, México
Enrique Huber Fonseca, COMEX, San Andrés, Tuxtla, Veracruz
Carlos Huber Vázquez, Tele- Radio, San Andrés Tuxtlas, Veracruz
La Casa de Los Tesoros, Arts & Crafts of Mexico, Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico
La Flor de Catemaco, Ornamental Plants, Catemaco, Veracruz
Pía Lotvedt, Student, Norway
Dr. Mario Enrique Martínez Azuela, gynecologist, Veracruz, Veracruz,
Mexico
Verónica Medina Alday, Dir. Gen., ERDM SOLAR, S. A. DE C. V.
San Andrés Tuxtla & Catemaco, Veracruz
Carmen Ramos Fuster, Hotel Isabel, San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico
Douglas D. Redmond, Calidad Tobaccos, Seward, Nebraska, USA
Hans Samyn, Brussels, Belgium
Dr. Eduardo San Martin Romero, Cardiologist, San Andrés Tuxtla, Ver.,
México
Dr. Benedikt Suykens, Chiropractor, Catemaco, Veracruz
Alddo Enrique Vazquez Flores, Catemaco, Veracruz
Matt & Mayra Young, Catemaco, Veracruz
Oscar Castelán Tenorio
http://spaces.msn.com/castel
anweb/
Ursula en la
Punta de Tepeyaga
Akiko in the forest
Honorary Members

Armando Blanco Moheno, Freelance Writer, Mexico D. F., Mexico
Don Gonzalo Hernández Sobrevals, Cortijo Sobrevals, Catemaco, Ver., México (Deceased)
Mr. & Mrs. Vern Redmond, Nebraska, USA (Deceased)
Defensores del Medio Ambiente
de Los Tuxtlas, A. C.
Quinta las Bugambilias
Punto Nixtamalapan
Carretera Playa Azul s/n
95870 Catemaco, Veracruz, México

Tel/Fax: (294) 943-0581
Correo Electrónico: lostuxtlas@dematac.org
Pagina Web: www.dematac.org
If you would like to communicate with us, please see our page:
"Contact us"

To discover ways to support us, make a donation, become an Affiliate Member or Sponsor, please go to:

"Join & Support"
Don Gringo
www.catemaco.info
Gaby
Natalia - Salto de Eyipantla
Juan, Eduardo y Luís
near "Maquina Vieja"
San Andrés Tuxtla
Your tax deductible donation will help protect the endangered, northernmost tropical rain
forest in the Americas, and contribute to environmental awareness worldwide.
Jorge R. Martínez A.
IVEA
BRANCH OFFICE - DOWNTOWN CATEMACO

Located on the premises of:

LA CASA DE LOS TESOROS

Calle Aldama Altos #4
Catemaco, Veracruz
95870
Mexico

(Second floor, on the lake side of the Church of the Virgen del
Carmen)

Telephone: (294) 943 - 2910
Here we receive complaints regarding wildlife or
environmental abuses,  offer environmental workshops
and other activities related to ecological conservation, plus
provide information to the public and accept donations and
memberships.
Pia at El Salado