translated from Spanish: We need the truth,

delegates demand Maya on projects and members of 43 Mayan communities in the Yucatan Peninsula marched Monday in the streets of Merida against dispossession from which have been their lands because of projects of development.
Some 300 people from communities Kimbila Chablekal Chochola, Santa Gertrudis snowflake, Kanxoc and, Homun left the four corners of the city towards the large square, in the Center, for “ask all Governments” who fail to make decisions that they they affect without consulting them, and to notify them to how they want to live.
Their demands have been listed in a document drawn up between all communities and released on his behalf by the non-governmental organization team outrage, in which he made 13 urgent notifications and recommendations of measures precautionary After considering that Governments have failed to protect the right to self-determination of communities Maya, while this right is covered in article 2 of the political Constitution of the Mexican United States, article 7 Bis of the Constitution Yucatan and international treaties and declarations that rights of indigenous peoples, it has signed and ratified the Mexican State.
“We don’t want to go back 600 years ago, we know to use the technology, science and art; This is also a right. That we know and we know that right to the afterlife as village is a possible right. listen very well, we’re going to go back to our people, to continue gathering winds. Today we return to demand our right to self-determination, because we know that the Mayan people are subject of law and that the only possible law, is a law that recognizes that we have the right to make our laws. ‘ Ki ‘u’ uy u ‘owing’ ex ‘, expressed in the document.
Photo: Carlos EscoffiéEntre demands highlights the recommendation to review and modify “any public policy”, as the announced project Maya train to be consulted at national level 24 and 25 November, in addition to redistribute the budget “with a perspective of” ethnicity”.
“Listen well, already reviewed all laws, regulations, codes, plans of development, decrees, initiatives and platforms of political parties, contracts and covenants. do not suit us. We can still discuss it, but we need to know the whole truth. And when we say all the truth, it is the real information of those plans that Governments have and those who have money. Everything you want to do in our towns and mountains, we first have to tell all the truth, to know if it is good for us or not. “We want to come with your open heart, also so they know how have really cared for us things, we know how to do it: Ki’ u’uy u ‘owing’ ex ‘, exposed.
Photo: Carlos EscoffiéTambién ask for the cancellation of the catalogue of Mayan communities and the anthropological surveys, as well as the revision of the criteria of existing ethnicity with the consultation and approval of the communities, after warning that they will not wait for the Governments say who are Mayans and who does not.
“We know that if we say it, so. If you want to make your list of people, make it. “We already know who we are Maya and who do not”.
After talking in the villages “in a big way”, the signatory communities of the document also reported the following agreements: “(…) Homun in do not want to put a farm of pigs along with the natural wells; Kimbila in do not want to do what you want them as the market on the football field, we want it on other side; in Kanxok already resolved to join the ejidos divided; in point topped do not want a wall as the hacienda in the middle of the people that live in those who are not of the people; in Chablekal and Chocholá do not want the ejido to take decisions on the mountains and the air, Sun and water, because of all the people. We are not going to deliver our best seeds and defend us whenever they want to spray poison the Earth. “Notified them that we are not against the mirrors for the Sun, nor the abanicos-eolicos, but we want that there is a wind farm in each village, but make it so that we have a supply of clean power that we live in the village”.
They claim that “are not going to wait for you to do your querieswe know decisions and make agreements. We have always done it”, after demanding treatment worth rather than contempt.
“We demand, as they say our rights, that despise us to stop. That we respect and treated with dignity. “So we will understand who want things to change and will begin to heal the wounds of history of all the people: Ki’ u’uy u ‘owing’ ex ‘.
Photo: Carlos EscoffiéEl document is signed by 43 Mayan communities and the Council of the school of agriculture ecological U Yits Ka’an, in addition to be certified before a notary public.
It is also backed by 18 writers, academics and researchers, which include Elena Poniatowska, Juan Villoro and Bishop Raúl Vera, who claim to have heard the word of the maya people and sign your manifest.
“(…) We affirm that, in a country where multiculturalism is recognized, the authorities must stop making decisions on behalf of the people and give effect to the right to self-determination”, indicate the undersigned.

Original source in Spanish