Juan Carlos G. Partida and Ruben Villalpando
correspondents
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, April 12, 2022, p. 6
Residents of Wixaritari communities in northern Jalisco and southern Zacatecas, as well as mestizos from at least ten Zacatecan municipalities on the border with Jalisco, demonstrated before and during the revocation of the mandate in their towns to protest the lack of voting booths, that in many cases prevented them from exercising their right to vote due to the long distances they would have to travel.
Wixaritari community members accused the National Electoral Institute of discrimination against indigenous peoples and asked for the departure of councilors Lorenzo Córdova and Ciro Murayama. Outside the INE, Lencho Cordova and Ciro Murayama, enemies of democracy in Mexico
either INE, the native peoples also count and this time you excluded us, you did not put boxes
said posters that members of the Wixárika people carried on Sunday and yesterday during a protest in the region.
On Sunday, the INE delegate in Jalisco, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Morales, said that during the voting day there were acts of inducement to vote without the slightest shame
in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara and in district 1, in the northern zone of Jalisco, specifically in Mezquitic, where the Wixaritari communities are settled, although he avoided specifying in which or which boxes.
That first federal electoral district is made up of 24 municipalities: Colotlán, Mezquitic, Villa Guerrero, Totatiche, Chimaltitán, Bolaños, San Martín de Bolaños, Huejuquilla el Alto, Huejúcar (where dozens of Wixaritari populations are settled), in addition to Tequila, Hostotipaquillo, Magdalena , Amatitán, El Arenal, Tala, Teuchitlán, Ahualulco de Mercado, Etzatlán, San Marcos, San Juanito Escobedo, Santa María de los Ángeles, Cuquío, Ixtlahuacán del Río and San Cristóbal de la Barranca.
In addition, in Zacatecas there were demonstrations on Friday, Saturday and Sunday by inhabitants of towns such as El Salvador, Melchor Ocampo, Susticacán, Tepetongo, Santa María de la Paz, Florencia de Benito Juárez, Atolinga, Moyahua, Huanusco and El Plateado de Joaquina Amaro, in which also denounced the long distances they had to travel if they wanted to vote and questioned the alleged autonomy of the electoral body, which put up obstacles instead of promoting mass participation.
Meanwhile, Cruz Pérez Cuéllar, mayor of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, reported that they are reviewing the legal measures they are going to take against the INE, for having hidden
boxes during the mandate revocation consultation.
He specified that a group of friendly lawyers are analyzing the situation and the lawsuit they are going to present, because the INE obstructed the citizen vote, especially in those places where President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is more widely accepted.
