Presidency seeks to merge Institutes of Indigenous Peoples and Languages

The federal government presented since December 9 an initiative for the National Institute of Indigenous Languages (INALI) to merge with the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI).
In arguing this merger, the Legal Counsel of the Presidency maintains that it seeks to strengthen the Institute of Indigenous Peoples, so that “it carries out the tasks related to the strengthening, development and preservation of the national indigenous languages.”
It proposes the “transfer of functions” through the disincorporation of INALI, which is currently a sectorized body of the Ministry of Culture.

In a statement, the agency maintained that it is an “administrative adjustment,” and that the infrastructure of the INPI “would allow a greater scope and impact of the actions of study, institutionalization and safeguarding of the national indigenous languages.”
He also published that there is a budget for the National Institute of Indigenous Languages (INALI) of just over 71 million pesos.
“The Federal Ministry of Culture, through INALI, will promote the centrality of indigenous peoples as subjects of public law with the slogan of ‘nothing for us without us,'” he said.

The initiative seeks to reform the laws on the Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples, the National Shield, Flag and Anthem, as well as the Law on Education, Penal Enforcement and the Promotion of Reading and books.

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Original source in Spanish