Fernando Camacho Servin
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, April 14, 2022, p. 12
Although indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples had high expectations for the current federal government, those hopes they start to fade
largely due to the lack of momentum of this administration to the constitutional reform project that various organizations, communities and experts delivered to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador more than half a year ago, without it having been sent to the Legislative until now.
This was stated by Carlos de Jesús Alejandro, indigenous representative of Mexico before the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, who pointed out that the void of interest
government on issues related to indigenous communities is being taken advantage of by opposition parties.
In interview with the daythe expert pointed out that although the Executive launched or announced care plans for the Yaqui and Wixarika ethnic groups, it has left aside the rest of the 68 original peoples that exist in Mexico and has not given legal channel to the proposed constitutional reform presented since last September 28.
There is an omission or neglect of the issue of the rights of indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples. With great expectation we participated in this call launched by the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI), in which more than 54 forums were held and a working group was formed
since 2019 to recognize the communities as full subjects of rights, he indicated.
Added to this is the fact that the INPI not only failed to recover from the 50 percent budget cut it suffered in the previous six-year term, but also fell 30 percent.
