Mexico .- The treatment he gives to indigenous peoples and the recovery of capitalist projects, have made the anthropologist and leftist Gilberto Lopez y Rivas consider that with the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador “Mexico has returned to priismo.” In his most recent book entitled “Indigenous Peoples in Times of the Fourth Transformation (4T)”, López y Rivas criticizes the plans that the head of the Federal Executive Branch has deployed in relation to pre-Hispanic groups and, in this sense, returned it to “paternalistic indigenism”.
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In an interview with EFE, the Mexican intellectual criticized the transformation supposedly contrary to neoliberalism led by President López Obrador, indicating that it is nothing more than “a capitalist plan,” which rescues projects of federal administrations of the past, such as the Mayan Train, mining and the transoceanic, which had already been put on the table previously. Read more: They protest against the appointment of Rubén Moreira; As for the inconvenience that the indigenous peoples have expressed against the macroprojects of the National Regeneration Movement, the anthropologist explained that the reason for this is because they know what the effects of the works that intend to build capitalist companies helped by the Mexican government itself are.
He pointed out that for the indigenous inhabitants of the Mexican Republic, the megaprojects are seen as a “recolonization” of the land, which is why they “clash because of their form of community organization.” He also recalled that in 2018 the López Obrador government created the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI), which he described as an “aggression” to the indigenous peoples’ own “autonomic processes,” since it is “a return to PRI indigenism.” For his part, Gilberto López y Rivas also criticizes the militarization of the Mexican State during the current administration, by granting the Armed Forces control of customs and seaports, as well as the construction of important projects, such as the Mayan Train and the “Felipe Ángeles” Airport. Read more: Lopez-Gatell in the crosshairs; In this regard, he said that he would never have imagined, either in the governments of Enrique Peña Nieto or with Felipe Calderon or Vicente Fox, that the process of militarization of the country would take place in such a “fine-tuned” manner as is taking place in the Fourth Transformation. , accusing that, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the agency was increased in resources by giving it 38 government projects, while, otherwise, the amounts allocated to the Ministry of Culture decreased by 75%.
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