Autonomia y Resistencia
[:es]Guatemala | El Estor: autoridades indígenas Q’eqchi’ instalan campamento de resistencia[:]
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Por Nelton Rivera
Las autoridades comunitarias que forman parte de los cuatro Consejos de autoridades ancestrales Maya Q’eqchi’ de El Estor, Izabal, iniciaron este lunes una serie de manifestaciones en rechazo al proceso preparatorio de preconsulta, por el proyecto minero Fénix, de la Compañía Guatemalteca de Níquel CGN y la empresa rusa Solway, que promueve el ministro Alberto Pimentel y el viceministro Oscar Rafael López.
La comunidad se movilizó en las carreteras que comunican hacia Río Dulce y comunica, al municipio con Panzós, Alta Verapaz. Las autoridades comunitarias denunciaron que el Ministerio de Gobernación movilizó a unos 300 de agentes de la Policía Nacional Civil (PNC) de Jutiapa e Izabal, a pesar de tener conocimiento de que las manifestaciones anunciadas se harían de forma pacífica.
Las autoridades y dirigentes comunitarias conversaron con los responsables de la PNC que llegaron al municipio y les pidieron respetar el derecho del pueblo Q’eqchi’ a reunirse, manifestarse y expresarse.
Una de las autoridades consultadas dijo que el Ministerio de Energía y Minas MEM, no ha paralizado las operaciones de la minera Fénix y que, por el contrario, las ha protegido desde el 2019, en desacato a la orden de la Corte de Constitucionalidad.
El domingo 3 de octubre, en el Parque Central del municipio, a unos 320 kilómetros de la ciudad de Guatemala, las autoridades de los cuatro Consejos Indígenas Q’eqchi’ se reunieron, para decidir, según dijeron, las medidas que tomaran ante la decisión del MEM de excluirlos y discriminarlos del proceso de preconsulta.
“El alcalde municipal Joel Lorenzo, Reyes, acreditó a COCODES afines a la Compañía Guatemalteca de Níquel CGN; desde el 2017 las instituciones del Estado operan en beneficio a la empresa, como ha quedado demostrado, ¿entonces, a quién quieren consultar a la empresa o al pueblo Q’eqchi’?”, expresó una autoridad vía telefónica que prefirió omitir su nombre.
Las autoridades indígenas piden que se detenga las reuniones de preconsulta, se deje de excluir a los principales actores en el problema y sea suspendidas las operaciones de CGN en el departamento, como requisito previo para realizar la consulta comunitaria por el proyecto minero Fénix, tal y como lo ordenó la CC.
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[:en]Communities and Collectives of Oaxaca Denounce the State-Organized “Indigenous Encounters Canada-Oaxaca 2021”[:]
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Communique from communities and collectives of Oaxaca denouncing the state-organized “Indigenous Encounters Canada-Oaxaca 2021,” and calling for the construction of affinity and reciprocity between Indigenous peoples of so-called Mexico and Canada through solidarity and resistance
To the Media
To the General Public
To our Brothers and Sisters of Turtle Island
Within the context of the “Indigenous Encounters Canada-Oaxaca 2021,” a celebration organized by the Canadian and Mexican states taking place from September 20 to October 8 in Oaxaca City, we have decided share some relevant information that has been omitted and misrepresented in the official announcements and press conferences for the event.
What they call the “state of Oaxaca” is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse places in the world, thanks to the ongoing Indigenous resistance against extermination, which began with European expansion into the territory now known as Mexico. It is this very diversity which the governments of Oaxaca and Canada figure as the principal motivation to carry out this event.
However, what they call diversity is much closer to Mexican nationalism, constructed with the blood and bones of our ancestors. The reason for this is that the governments see the Indigenous and the Afro as a profitable cultural expression, as a discourse, as an image, etc.
We, those who for generations have resisted their necropolitics, racism, classism, and sexism, not only refuse to nurture that nationalism, but we also repudiate the commodification of our life forms. We want all those who prefer to ignore reality to know that for generations we have witnessed the expulsion and marginalization of Indigenous people in the territory invaded and now called Oaxaca. We have been subject to the dispossession of our lands, which we watch with sadness and rage as they are converted into objects of financial speculation.
If we have anything to share with our brothers and sisters from Turtle Island, it is this history of pain and colonial violence. They too were dispossessed, massacred, and forced to live on reservations. What they call “Canada” hides under its soil thousands of bodies of Indigenous children, men and women, assassinated for the misfortune of not being white and not thinking like whites. Although the state tries to hide it, this violence endures and manifests in different ways.
This shared history of dispossession invites us on this occasion to say in unison, to those whose laws justify or facilitate Indigenous extermination, to those who confuse our history of resistance with folklore, and to those who hide their business interests behind the expression of “cultural fraternity,” WE WILL NOT ALLOW IT, NEITHER MATERIALLY NOR SYMBOLICALLY.
WE DENOUNCE that these same people have been the masterminds of the worst environmental and social tragedies that we have seen in recent times. An example of which is the installation of mines for mass mineral extraction, through the exploration and implementation of mining concessions and mining projects.
