Tzeltal residents of the indigenous population, Choles and Tzotziles, spoke against the project to build a highway between San Cristóbal de Las Casas and Palenque. They emphasized that even during the general advice held on March 23, not all societies participated; In addition, they indicated that some people who voted arrived from other municipalities.
During a press conference, members of the movement in the defense of life and land (Modivit) announced: “We are not only announced against the project, but also from the first section, which is transmitted from Palenque to Ocosingo; it has been forged.”
Looking at this position, they presented many Ambros to the federal courts in order to stop the project, given that it violates Article 2 of the political constitution of the United Mexican countries regarding the identification of the original peoples.
They denounced that in the consultation of March 23, the authorities did not respect the right to implement the environment, cultural or project. They emphasized that societies were not reported in a timely manner, because the call that is distributed only in social networks, without reaching peoples due to the lack of internet connection.
They also criticized that the voting funds were installed only in the water of the municipal places, with spaces between two and six. And they said: “We were witnesses of abnormal cases: people who did not live in the municipalities were able to vote, and decided to an area that they did not belong to.”
Representatives of Chilón accused that the main beneficiaries on the highway will be entrepreneurs, who transport goods via federal roads to send them to other parts of the world.
On the other hand, they stressed that the original societies will be the most affected, because their economic activity is mainly limited to the sale of coffee in the northern region of Chiabas.
We, as Modevite and the members of the CHILón community, agreed to completely reject the San Cristóbal -PALENNENENE, because the land and water are life. In addition, hundreds of animals live in these lands where the road passes. “
They pointed out that the most affected people will be the people of the indigenous people, as their lands, conspiracies, homes, animals and commodities will be destroyed. “We do not benefit us at all; businessmen are the most preferred, because it was agreed with them to build the highway.”
Here again, the bad government is committed to direct discrimination against the indigenous peoples in the region; Racism and contempt continue, despite the reform of the constitutional article 2, which realizes our rights to consultation and self -identification, “they added.
Finally, societies representatives, along with Modevite, reported that they had brought Ambro before a federal court to stop the project. They said that they will continue their protest strategy from the areas of Chol and Tzeltal in the municipality of North Chiabas, because the highway will cross the mountains, hills, pastures, rivers and indigenous societies, which will directly affect them.
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In a joint agreement between people originally from Mones Grandes and the organized people in Cuxuljá, based on the Act of the Population and Article 2 of the Political Constitution, we are opposed to implementing the highway project that aims to pass through our lands.
No to the San Cristobal highway.
We defend the region!
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The organized people in cxuljá
