Magdalena Gómez: Xochimilco: Does the mayor’s office portray the government?

On September 5, in front of the Xochimilco City Hall in Mexico City, something happened that should never even be thought of at any time in history, in any country. A group of community members, especially from San Gregorio Atlapulco, in the aforementioned municipality, accompanied by activists from social and indigenous organizations, and from independent alternative media, among them the Front for the Defense of the Native Peoples and Neighborhoods of the Anáhuac Basin, the National Assembly for Life (Anavi), the Otomi community residing in Mexico City and students from UNAM and the National School of Anthropology, were holding a peaceful protest on the esplanade of the mayor’s office, defending Hortensia Telésforo, accused of dispossession by the mayor’s office and with her the Permanent General Assembly of the People of San Gregorio Atlapulco, who, exercising their right to have autonomous spaces like the community library now renamed Casa del Pueblo Tlamachtiloyan, decided to occupy for this cultural project a premises, by the way, practically abandoned, in which the now criminally accused Hortensia Telésforo coordinates activities.

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