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Indigenous Groups Block Consultation on Michoacán Rights Law

From La Jornada · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Members of the Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán prevented a forum on a proposed general law on Indigenous peoples' rights from taking place in Pátzcuaro.
  • The group called the consultation discriminatory, simulated and failed.
  • It said the proposal excluded 109 Michoacán communities missing from the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples' registry.

Members of the Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán blocked a forum in Pátzcuaro on a proposed general law concerning Indigenous peoples' rights.

The council rejected the consultation as “discriminatory, simulated and failed.” It also said the process did not include 109 communities in Michoacán.

Those communities do not appear in the catalog maintained by Mexico's National Institute of Indigenous Peoples, the council said.

discriminatory, simulated and failed

· Supreme Indigenous Council of MichoacánThe council used the phrase to reject the consultation on the proposed Indigenous rights law.
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