From the Writing
Newspaper La Jornada
Monday, February 7, 2022, p. 4
The traditional governors of the Yaqui people and representatives of the presidential justice commission for the Yaqui people of Sonora reaffirmed that the dialogue open and flat
It is the way to solve the historical demands of the ethnic group. Among them is the recovery of water for human and agricultural use in the region where the Yaquis live and produce.
Through a bulletin issued by the federal government, it became known that the traditional governors of Vícam Pueblo and Pótam –from the first and second heads of the Yaqui Nation, respectively–, as well as Tórim, Huírivis, Ráhum, Cócorit, Loma from Guamúchil, Loma de Bácum and Belem, they met with the general director of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI), Adelfo Regino, and the governor of Sonora, Alfonso Durazo. It was also stated that the recovery of water for human and agricultural use in Yaqui lands is of great importance, where infrastructure and social welfare works will also be deployed.
The presence of public officials, the bulletin refers, was due to consolidate the construction of the Yaqui aqueduct of irrigation district 018, in addition to disposing of the water that belongs to them, as established by the decrees of Presidents Lázaro Cárdenas of 1940 and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, signed on September 28, 2021
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