D
icen that to the laws, and I add To the official reports, we must analyze them not only for what they say, but for what they shut up. The section related to the issue that I state is exhaustive in data on actions carried out from and by the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI). Back six elements. They emphasize that the National Development Plan incorporated “the voices of 68 indigenous and Afromexican peoples and resulted in the integration of a transverse axis over their rights that establishes as national priority a structural transformation of the Mexican State, in which its autonomy and free determination are the fundamental principles for the execution of government policies and programs”. Another relevant aspect has been the National Catalog of Indigenous and Aphromexican peoples and communities (CNPCIA), which, through its latest update, made by the INPI, presents information of 16 thousand 114 communities belonging to 70 indigenous peoples and the Afromexican, in 28 federative entities and 1,392 municipalities, to promote the exercise of its self -determination and autonomy. It is also constituted as a fundamental input for the elaboration of policies, programs, works. It is also added that on December 11, 2024, through the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) and the INPI, the mechanism for the implementation and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples was installed, which is an instance of coordination of public policies between the entities and dependencies of the Federal Public Administration.
On the other hand, they point out that the institutionalization work of the National Council of Indigenous Peoples continues to have the ideal dialogue channels that represent, fully, the community organization, under the principles of self -determination and autonomy, for the formulation of proposals and surveillance of the policies, programs and actions of the Government of Mexico that affect the life of indigenous and Afromexican peoples and communities.
And a central aspect is the constitutional recognition of indigenous and Afromexican peoples and communities as subjects of public law with legal personality and their own heritage, as well as holders of the right to self -determination: “The Government of Mexico promotes the creation and consolidation of direct budget allocation mechanisms, which allow these peoples and communities to exercise their collective rights, based on their own development models, regulatory systems and governance models”. They refer to the Contribution Fund for Social Infrastructure for Indigenous and Aphromexican peoples and communities (FAIS), which allows the execution, administration and exercise of public resources autonomously. For fiscal year 2025, 12 thousand 374.3 million pesos destined for the improvement of basic social infrastructure were assigned to promote the decrease in social lag in these peoples and communities. They indicate that in past months they carried out community assemblies in which, in accordance with their normative systems, authorities and representatives, general diagnoses were developed in the field of social infrastructure for each community, works were prioritized and administration and surveillance committees were formed, through community participation mechanisms. Nothing to do with their own development models stated in the speech.
Likewise, on October 17, 2024, the agrarian inter -institutional table was installed for the attention to the regional justice and development plans, with the objective of analyzing the Agrarian Law, identifying the articles to reform and integrate the recognition of the special, material and spiritual relationship of the peoples with the earth, the territory and the natural resources, as well as the traditional communal property and the possession that the indigenous communities have historically held. They do not notice that they have respected the Salinista counter -reform to the constitutional 27, so they left out the right to territory.
Finally, the instances convened for the elaboration of the proposal of the General Law of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Afromexicans that will “consult” the absent “in their own way” in the coming months. The central question refers to official practices to show as “peoples” and “consult” indigenous people who have no such representativeness. What is silent is the relative to megaprojects and we find a pearl in the section on legal actions to defend the public interest of the Legal Ministry of the Presidency: “On the Mayan train, the continuity of the operation of the project in all its sections was guaranteed by successfully defending various amparos promoted against its construction”. Also absent, the situation of violence and dispossession and impunity facing the really existing peoples in their resistance struggles. Wordless.
