“The year 2024 represented the corroboration that in Mexico environmental issues were not a priority for the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.”
Words, it turns out, did not result in action. And while the new administration looks more promising on paper, the budgets for 2025 do not herald a change.
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”The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba), in its 2023 report “Chiapas, a disaster, between criminal violence and the complicity of the State,” points out that “Sembrando Vida” is part of a long-term policy that began in the 1990s, with programs such as the Certification of Communal Rights (PROCECOM) or the Regularization and Registration of Agrarian Legal Acts (RRAJA).”
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Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first Presidenta enters the office on the tails of her party’s multiple betrayals of justice. As her platform promises the developmentalism and militarization of her predecessor, the peoples affirm that change will not come from above.
Two perspectives on the new Presidenta’s inauguration.
The rhetoric of López Obrador, and the incoming Sheinbaum administration around the struggles and the rights of indigenous peoples has adapted to the times, but the author points out the lip-service and deception that have only worsened the relation between the State and indigenous peoples.
Despite the fact that recent reforms have been presented by the government as a radical transformation of the judicial system, serious reservations have been expressed as regards the protection of human rights. “On September 12th, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a statement expressing its concern about the approval of the judicial reform in terms of the impact it would have on the rights of access to justice and due process, as well as the rule of law, especially when it remains to encompass and transform other institutions in charge of administering justice where the first contacts to guarantee human rights occur.”
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