translated from Spanish: Alistan peasants march for resources in CDMX

CDMX.- Peasants of the National Coordinator Plan of Ayala march from the National Auditorium towards the City Center on the occasion of the 140th anniversary of Emiliano Zapata’s birth and to demand budget and other support for the field. The peasants gathered in the Auditorium and hope to make a stop at the Angel of Independence, where other organizations of the Authentic Field Front (FAC) are already meeting and from there hope to continue to the Monument to the Revolution.
The peasants demand that the budget for the camp be released, but also that the resources already exercised be clarified, that the reforms made in the government of Carlos Salinas de Gortari to article 27 constitutional, related to the ownership of the and for the current federal government to agree to establish a dialogue table.” We are asking that the resources for the field that have already been approved and that do not drop them be handed over,” said Juan Caporal, a protester who carried a blanket of the CNPA Querétaro with the image of Zapata.

They went out to demonstrate to the streets of the CDMX / Photo: Reforma

Zapata lives, the fight goes on! and you can see the CNPA is present!

About 300 peasants were dritory around them so far. City Government staff accounted for about 1,500 people in The Angel of Independence.

About 300 people came out / Photo: Reformation

It is expected that by the demonstration they will close the central lane of Paseo de la Reforma towards the Zócalo.La march was announced by the FAC, who has been maintaining a camp for more than two weeks at the gates of the National Palace and which is also composed of other organizations such as the Coalition of Democratic, Urban and Peasant Organizations (CODUC), the National Union of Agricultural Workers (UNTA), the Independent Central of Agricultural and Peasant Workers (CIOAC) and the Social Movement for the Earth (MST).
… And they protest in nine states 

For more than two weeks they have been demonstrating in the palace / Photo: Reformation

With blockades and demonstrations, peasants of the Frente Auténtico del Campo affect the transit of highways, roads and huts of at least 9 entities. The first reports on This Thursday indicate that the mavericks started seedlings, with green and red flags as symbols of their movement, in San Luis Potosí, Morelos, Tlaxcala, Oaxaca, Edomex, Veracruz, Puebla, Guerrero and Querétaro.

Started seedlings in different states / Photo: Reform

In the State of Mexico, blockades are recorded on the Mexico-Puebla Highway, at the height of the San Marcos shed, the Circuito Exterior and Peñón-Texcoco.While in San Luis Potosí, the blocked roads are Valles-Monte, Río Verde-Cd Valles; in Morelos, the Express Pass, at the height of Cuernavaca; Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala-San Martín and Texmelucan-Tlaxcala; in Oaxaca, the airport cruise on federal route 175.

Photo: Reformation

It was also alerted about closures in the Xalapa-Veracruz; in Puebla, in the Esperanza shed, San José Chapa and Texmelucan-Cuapiaxtla; in Guerrero, on the Acapulco-Zihuatanejo, and in Querétaro, at the height of Chichimequillas.With information from .scar Uscanga

Photo: Reformation

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