translated from Spanish: Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán considers inappropriate, ineffective and violative online education

Michoacán.- Through a statement the Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán, indicated that it considers online education inappropriate, inoperative and violating. The Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán (CSIM), a council composed of civil, communal and traditional authorities from 60 native communities, publicly denounces that the online education provided by the Secretary of Public Education (SEP) is exclusive, discriminatory and violating their rights.
They showed that according to the official figures themselves, more than 136,608 speakers of an originating language (INEGI / 2010) live in non-urban and rural localities (EDESPI MICH / 2017), 74.9% of the indigenous population are in poverty and marginalization (CONEVAL / 2018), as well as 8 out of 10 dwellings in which an indigenous-speaking person lives maintains housing lag, 19.9% lack water services within the dwelling, 26.6% have no drainage to the public grid and 13.9% maintain housing with dirt floors (INEGI / Intercensal Survey 2015), so these conditions of poverty, marginalization and discrimination online education is inappropriate and inoperative.
They stated that the majority of the indigenous population in Michoacán does not have sufficient economic resources to allow access to internet services, that in various territories of the p’urhépecha regions, the coast of Michoacán or the east of the state, they have no telephone signal, that none of the television channels where the “learn at home” programs of the PMI are broadcast can be observed in communities, nor have they been broadcast by radio programs or delivered by school booklets through CONAFE.
Finally, they stated that online education is violating their collective rights as native peoples, by not imparting content according to their particular needs, worldview, language and culture, and that the educational model called “New Mexican School” was not consulted freely, prior, informed and linked with the original communities.
Below is the full announcement:
ONLINE EDUCATION IS EXCLUSIONARY, DISCRIMINATORY AND LEGAL VIOLATION
Communities, as of April 21, 2020.
TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND COMMUNITIES
TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC
TO THE PEOPLE OF MICHOACÁN
The Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán (CSIM), autonomous and independent council, consisting of Heads of Tenure, Traditional Judges, Ejidal and Community Commissioners, as well as Councils of Communal Governments of 60 native communities, which we collectively walk in our free self-determination, through this communiqué we jointly state the following:
In Michoacán, more than 136,608 speakers of an native language live (INEGI / 2010), of whom more than 90% live in non-urban and rural localities (EDESPIMICH / 2 74.9% of the indigenous population are in poverty and marginalization (CONEVAL / 2018), as well as 8 out of 10 dwellings in which an indigenous-speaking person lives maintains dwelling lag, 19.9% lack water services within the house, 26.6% do not have drainage to the public grid and 13.9% maintain housing with land floors (INEGI / Intercensal Survey 2015).
In this context of discrimination, poverty and social exclusion, the so-called “Online Education” imposed by the Secretary of Public Education (SEP) is inappropriate, ineffective and violating rights for the original communities, since the majority of the indigenous population in Michoacán does not have sufficient financial resources to allow access to internet services, likewise, in various territories of the p’urhépecha regions, the coast of Michoacán or the east of the state, they do not even have a telephone signal, on the other hand, we denounce that none of the television channels where the “Learn at Home” programs of the PMI are broadcast can be observed in the communities, much less have broadcast them on radio programs , nor delivered by school booklets through CONAFE, finally online education is violating the rights of the native peoples, by not imparting content according to our particular needs, worldview, language and cultural, even more, the educational model called “New Mexican School” was not consulted freely, prior, informed and linked with the original communities, with which the Mexican State continues with the old integrationist, paternalistic and discriminatory policies towards the indigenous peoples.
SUPREME INDIGENOUS COUNCIL OF MICHOACÁN
TERUNHASKUA K’ OIA, ECHERI KA JURAMUKUKUA IAMENTU IRETECHANI
JUSTICE, TERRITORY AND AUTONOMY FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

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