Organizations of Chiapas Denounce the Criminalization and Death of Indigenous Compañerxs and Environmental Activists
Original peoples of the northern region of Chiapas, MX, demand justice and liberty for Gustavo Castro detained in Honduras
March 12, 2016
To Juan Orlando Hernandez, President of Honduras
To the Consulates of Honduras in Tapachula and Comitan, Chiapas
To Lic. Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico
To the national and international press
To the organization of the United Nations
To the national and international defenders of human rights
To all of the solidarity of the world
Communities of the Indigeous Tsostil, Tseltal, and Ch’ol peoples of the northern region of Chiapas, Mexico, in a regional assembly in the Ejido of La Illusión, Municipality of Simojovel de Allence, Chiapas, organized by the community of Creyente de Simojovel, analyzed the critical situation of our environmental compañero Gustavo Castro Soto, and we protest the criminalization and death of indigenous compañerxs and environmental activists. The cowardly assassination of the Indigenous compañera Berta Cáseres and the intent of assassination of our environmental Mexican brother Gustavo Castro Soto is not a coincidence and much less an isolated act; this cowardly act is the practice of extermination that has been imposed by international capital with the complacency of national governments.
The justice of the country of Honduras should continue the line of investigation on the company of China that has pressured the indigenous compañerxs of COPINH in order to take their land with the hydroelectric dam, that is the motive of the assassination of Berta Cáceres and of the attempt of assassination of compañero Gustavo Castro.
We solicit and demand the immediate transfer to Mexico of environmental compañero Gustavo Castro Soto. The compañero is one of the victims of the cowardly assassination of the indigenous compañera Berta Cáceres that occurred Thursday, March 3, in the early morning, in the town of La Esperanza in Honduras. It is arbitrary to keep Gustavo Castro Soto for 30 more days in that country on the order of the Attorney General of Honduras.
We ask for the security of Gustavo Castro during the entire process of expanding his witness statement and during his stay in the embassy of Mexico in Tegucigalpa. We demand the government of Honduras to comply with the promise to lift the migratory alert that they put on Gustavo Castro so he can immediately leave Honduras ending this last judicial process required without any other action that would prevent his exit.
We hold the two governments of Mexico and Honduras responsible for his security, physical and psychological integrity. We demand the intervention at the highest level of the two governments so he can immediately exit Honduras.
Sincerely,
Pueblos originarios de la región norte de Chiapas México
Organización sociedad Civil de las Abejas de Acteal
Pueblo Creyente de Simojovel
Parroquia San Juan Bautista El Bosque
Parroquia San Juan Dieguito de San Cristóbal
Parroquia Santa Catarina Pantelho
Consejo Estatal de Nuevo Constituyente de Chiapas
Luz y Fuerza del Pueblo de Huitiupán
Centro de Derechos Humanos Oralia Morales de Frontera Comalapa
Luz y Fuerza de Chiapas
Signed in the presence of:
Observadores Nacionales e Internacionales del Movimiento Sueco por la Reconciliación (Swefor), Integrantes del Reconocimiento Jtatik Samuel Jk’anan Lum: Centro de Derechos humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas A.C (Frayba), Servicio Internacional para la Paz (Sipaz), Comisión de Apoyo a la Unidad y Reconciliación comunitaria A.C.(Coreco), Desarrollo Económico y Social de los Mexicanos Indígenas A.C (Desmi), Servicios y Asesoría para la Paz A.C. (Serapaz), Instituto de Estudios e Investigación Intercultural A.C. (Inesin), Coordinación de mujeres (Codimuj) y Vicaria de Justicia y Paz de la Diócesis de San Cristóbal de Las Casas
Poorly translated from the original here: http://espoirchiapas.blogspot.mx/2016/03/organizaciones-de-chiapas-denuncian-la.html
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