The government applies indolence politics

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This politics is weighed to end against indigenous towns
The government applies indolence politics
By: Carlos Damián July 26, 2012
The barricades activate in the doors of the town of Cherán again
México. - A hundred of integral of the Movement for the Peace with Justice and Dignity, #yosoy132mx, and other social organizations contained in the Net of Autonomous Resistances Anticapitalists carried out a meeting in front of the representation of the Michoacan’s government in the Federal District to demand justice for the 14 peasants (comuneros) of the Cheran’s town that have been murdered up to now, as well as the respect to the autonomy of that town, at the time that David Peña (DP), lawyer of that community, considered that the federal government's inattention can be interpreted as a "punishment".

To the unanimous scream of "justice "!, and “Cheran, friend, the town is with you"!, dozens of students and activists showed his respect and solidarity with this worthy town that for more than three years, in front of stealthy lumberjacks pursuit and of the organized crime, and before the accomplice inoperability of the governments local, state, and national, it opted for the self-defense and the political self-determination". They also demanded the federal and state governments to start, of urgent way, the investigation and the necessary measures for the clarification of the murders.

They punish to the autonomous indigenous towns
Jafet Sanchez, integral of the community, he said that they are “indignant and full with anger” for the recent murder of their partners and they made responsible, the state and federal Executive's leaders Fausto Vallejo and Felipe Calderon, respectively, of the murders and disappearances that have taken place in Cheran, and it demanded the execution of the agreements of the past 15 of April to recover their forests. In spite of the change in the political panorama, and the change of initials of party in the government in Michoacan, to the community Purhepecha they continue it applying an official strategy of indolence, forgetfulness and ignorance of agreements that it can be interpreted as a "punishment” against the project autonomist.

Last year you could achieve that the army gave some patrols and it stopped to some stealthy lumberjacks, but after the elections it undrawn everything. The agreement message with the member of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers, is that if “you are already authority you scratch yourself with your own fingernails", that which is absolutely unfounded, since the combat against the groups of the organized delinquency is the state and federal governments' responsibility. However, contrary to last year, in this occasion the inhabitants of this community don't request the intervention of the authorities, but their cooperation in a combined plan, and they make it, also in their paper of leaderships of the municipality, DP explained. "It is as if mayor of Juarez's City or Acapulco the federal government told him that he cannot help him because it is not of his competition. It would be a national scandal; but here the message is: if you are autonomous, now you enter him alone", DP regretted.

Justice is demanded for the 14 murdered peasants
When concluding the 43 meeting of the National Conference of Governors (Conago, in Spanish), the leader of the executive of Michoacan, Fausto Vallejo, said that the federal government's bigger support is required it doesn't only for military and police troops, but also to promote a social development that prevents that the groups of the organized crime continue dominating in the community of Cheran. He added that the population of that place is right when defending that the economic conditions of the Michoacan’s government prevent it to face with more force the situation. "In Cheran we need more soldiers, more state and federal policemen, and it is also required to take them more develop and to take them employment sources so that the organized delinquency doesn't abuse of the necessities of the communities and it throws them to one of the inflamed disputes in that area that is the clandestine pruning", he said.

The afternoon of this Friday (7/13/12) residents of Cheran 'take it' the huts of toll of San Angel Zurumucapio and Zirahuen, of the XXI Century highway, to demand the clarification of the homicides of the Urban peasants Urbano Macias and Guadalupe Geronimo Velazquez kidnapped the past 8 of July and found dead two days later in a place of Zacapu. The communal counselor Jose Trinidad Ramirez Tapia (JTRT), he said that they have come closer in the surroundings some federal forces, “but they only make it when they register o blood’s facts and we are asking him to settle a military barracks in the area forest to impede them to follow clandestine pruning the trees."

The government has not given pursuit to the problems of the region, he said because “in passed May he remembered that they would be here officials to make an analysis of the situation and to outline alternative and we are already in July and it has not passed anything, there are only two bodies more". JTRT commented that the fight undertaken during years against the stealthy lumberjacks has been kidnapped and dead 16 peasants of the town, for what has to be worth the right state and to imprison to those responsible for the crimes. "In the town we are protected, but in the mount it is very difficult to have security if the support of the federal forces doesn't exist". As long as the president of the State Commission of Human Rights (CEDH, in Spanish), Jose Maria Cazares Solorzano, exhorted to the three government orders to that they reinforce the security in Cheran and look for the dialogue to avoid that they continue spilling out blood among towns siblings that they continue charging victims for ancestral differences. (La Jornada, politica, p. 14, July 14, 2012).