translated from Spanish: Remove Morelia Town Hall Statue of Slavery in Aqueduct

Morelia, Michoacán.- Derived from a table of dialogue and debate convened by the City Council of Morelia a and the Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán agrees that the one that will remove the sculpture called the builders.
The sculpture, the builders located at the beginning of the aqueduct, represents, according to the members of the Supreme Indigenous Council, a society of castes, racist and oppressive, as well as the marginalization, humiliation, exploitation, subordination, slavery and genocide of the original peoples and communities and so it is formally agreed to generate the conditions for their withdrawal through consultations.
Similarly, morelia City Council undertook to respect the rights of indigenous peoples and international treaties, in particular those stipulated in Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization, which states that all doctrines, policies and practices based on the superiority of certain peoples or persons or that advocate it on grounds of national origin or racial differences , religious, ethnic or cultural are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unfair.
So far it is not known whether the sculpture will be removed or relocated somewhere in the city.

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