translated from Spanish: Receives chairmanship of the Board of Directors Integral Law of Indigenous Peoples

Morelia, Michoacán.- The President of the Board of Directors of the Congress of the State, Ms. Yarabí Avila González, received the draft Law on Rights, Integral Development and the Vindication of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Peoples and Communities of the State of Michoacán se Ocampo, in which indigenous communities and settlers from various indigenous peoples participated, as reported in a communiqué.
In this sense, the President of the Legislative Power stated that this is an open-door Congress, where each and every citizen proposal is received, as long as they are for the benefit of the Michoacans.
“The relationship between the legal framework and social reality, the reality that is lived in each of the indigenous communities and peoples, is often very distant, because the harmonization of many laws with reality is not what you live, it is not the actions that really allow that true feeling of the demands of men, women, children” Added.
The chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the State Congress was angry at noting that commitments and promises should be made, as long as she had the tools to do so, because she stressed that it is best not to lie, to tell people what can and can’t be done, and to knock on the doors to do the necessary management.
For his part, Deputy Arturo Hernández Vázquez, who collaborated and presented this initiative, noted that this new Comprehensive Law of indigenous communities, is presented with the aim of generating better living conditions for those who are originally from indigenous peoples and communities, so that their human rights are respected, is a law that speaks on specific issues such as health , education, security and self-government.
“This Law is made up of the support and participation of inhabitants of indigenous peoples, we made various forums to gather the most specific ideas and concerns of each and every one of them, with people from different communities such as Tiríndaro, Orange or Patambán, just to mention a few,” he said.
The deputy presenter pointed out that today, this Law is nothing more that, but is the pillar of Michoacana culture, purépecha culture and of each and every indigenous community that extends throughout the state of Michoacán.

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