Jalisco.-Hundreds of indigenous Wixárikas with banners against the government of Enrique Alfaro, and in demand of supports and social works, blocked the entrance to the event of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to receive them. The Representative promised to do so in the end, although he then only made a call for harmony among the peoples and avoided the meeting.
No, practically until now the community of Santa Catarina did not have the support of any kind,” said Agustin Sandoval, president of Real Comunales de Santa Catarina.
“Alfaro Enough of the omissions, get to work!”, “The wixárikas we own this land enough of racism and discrimination!”, “Welcome to our municipality the president of the native peoples of Mexico”, “AMLO take care of us the wixarika community awaits its visit in Santa Catarina,” said the banners and blankets of the indigenous people, some with cardboard huaraches, who said they had left their communities since 2 a.m. Sandoval said they were also seeking support for clean water works, roads, schools and agricultural conflict resolution. They waited for the President at the entrance to the Mexquitc sports car and said, López Obrador promised to receive them on the next basketball court.” AMLO is our hope!” they chanted as they walked to the place of the rally, where they were allowed to pass, but before they interned to take their banners away. During his speech, the Governor of Jalisco said he will not accept blackmail from traditional governments, as they themselves did not accept support in the first place.” I will be in Santa Catarina, if I may, I will visit this community and I will do it with just a comment, we do not accept blackmail or closure of schools, you can not deny the right to study, we will not accept amagues , we’re going to keep our word, but not with disrespect for the relationship we’ve built,” he said.
A bag of 32 million pesos was made to support communities, their authorities refused to receive a single weight of works for health, education, roads.”
He called for the working relationship between the two parties to be based on respect.
That’s why today in front of everyone we are going to work hand in hand with traditional governments, so the work agenda that we are doing is going to align with that of President López Obrador,” he said.
Alfaro also called that when next year’s budget is released, it could meet with federal authorities to discuss infrastructure works for Jalisco.” The work agenda that we are doing will align with that of President López Obrador, some think that there is confrontation or dispute, the President knows that in Jalisco he has allies for the transformation process that he leads”. The Representative recalled that the existing protests are held because of the proximity to the adoption of the 2020 Budget as, previously, organizations and government were accustomed to receiving “moches”.” That’s why we now have a little protest, because next year’s budget is about to be approved and they were poorly accustomed, you know what The Treasury was doing? State governments as well and municipal governments. There were games for moches,” he said.
“But what was going on, the money was left in the organizations, upstairs and nothing was coming to the people, so now there are protests but it is no longer going to be so, in the case of state, municipal governments, which they are entitled to by law, without taking absolutely nothing away from them , in the case of organizations, who are getting used to everything being direct.”
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