En Oaxaca, la población indígena tiene dos opciones: emigrar o morir, expresó Beatriz Floriana García Cortés, migrante oaxaqueña en Guadalajara y Premio Nacional de la Juventud 2005-2006 por su labor en el impulso de las mujeres artesanas mixtecas.
Al igual que muchos oaxaqueños, Floriana tuvo que salir de su pueblo para ir en búsqueda de oportunidades de estudio y trabajo. Junto con sus ocho hermanos y sus padres, engrosaron las cifras de personas que emigran del estado de Oaxaca, al sur de México, una de las entidades federativas con más comunidades de migrantes fuera del país.
Floriana llegó a Guadalajara cuando tenía seis años. Al paso del tiempo encontró lo que buscaba: estudiar. Logró concluir la licenciatura en Informática Administrativa en el Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO).
Olga Rosario Avendaño
CIMAC Noticias
Dec. 18, 2008
Mexico
Atentado del ejército colombiano iba dirigido a mí: Aída Quilcué
Consejera del CRIC había recibido amenazas de muerte
Aída Quilcué: "The Colombian army's attack was directed at me."
Indigenous leaders had received death threats
Mexico City - "I think the attack was meant for me," said Aida Quilcué, head
counsel for the Greater Regional Indigenous Council of [the province of] Cauca (CRIC).
Quilcué was referring to a Colombian Army attack last Tuesday that resulted in the death of her husband, Edwin Legarda, who had been riding in a van that Quilcué used for her travels.
Quilcué, after analyzing what had occured, stated that the murder was a premeditated crime, and that she was
the intended target.
Quilcué has received numerous death threats.
In a communiqué from the CRIC, Quilcué stated that the threats to her life
increased after she submitted reports nationally and internationally about the violence to which
indigenous peoples are being subjected in Colombia.
Aída Quilcué, along with other leaders of the CRIC, recently spearheaded a "Minga" (meet-up or mobilization) of the aboriginal peoples of the southwest of the country, from October to November, that included a march to [the nation's capitol,] Bogota, to demand the return of their [stolen] land and an end to the violence against their communities...
The CRIC's vehicle, which is widely known on the roads of the region, was attacked from three sides and had 17
bullet impacts. According to witnesses, there was no checkpoint on the road, nor was an order given by troops to stop...
Luis Andrade Evelis Casamada, Director of the the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC), pointed to these facts
and declared that an attack on the CRIC is an attack on ONIC, on the Colombian indigenous
movement and against any and all who dare to and engage the people by proposing
new ideas.
Evelis Casamada said that with this murder, we confirm once again that efforts by the Colombian
state to kill indigenous leaders are a component of its security policy, as was
also demonstrated during the recent Minga act of resistance.
The state calls these events acts that are carried out by isolated individuals, to distance themselves. In reality, these events for part of the massacre against the Colombian people...
The CRIC has reiterated the position of their past statements. They reject bullets, terror and war, wherever they come from. Impunity, they say, cannot be allowed to continue in this painful situation. "This is a war against
the people, and against the indigenous movement for dignity, including the right of peoples to build a country without bosses, that can live in peace."
The CRIC has demanded that soldiers leave their territories so that they can live in peace.
“Creo que el atentado era para mí”, expresó Aída Quilcué, Consejera Mayor del Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca (CRIC), al referirse al ataque del ejército colombiano el pasado martes en el que murió su compañero Edwin Legarda, quien iba en la camioneta que ella utilizaba para sus recorridos.
La Consejera del CRIC, al analizar las circunstancias del asesinato de su esposo, denunció este hecho como un acto premeditado que en realidad la tenía a ella como objetivo, pues Aida Quilcué ha recibido múltiples amenazas de muerte. Su riesgo aumentó a raíz de sus denuncias nacionales e internacionales sobre la violencia contra los pueblos indígenas, expresó un comunicado del CRIC.
Aída Quilcué, junto a otros líderes del CRIC, encabezó recientemente la "Minga" (marcha o movilización) de los pueblos aborígenes del suroeste del país, que de octubre a noviembre pasados caminaron hasta Bogotá para exigir la devolución de tierras y el fin de la violencia contra sus comunidades.
CIMAC Noticias
Dec. 18, 2008
Mexico
En Ecuador, Conaie condena asesinato del líder indígena Edwin Legarda
Pide investigación internacional
In Ecuador, CONAIE indigenous leader condemns killing of Edwin Legarda
in Colombia, and requests an international investigation
Mexico City - The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), has made a strong public condemnation of the murder of Colombian indigenous leader Edwin Legarda on December 16th, and calls for the establishment of an international commission of Inquiry into this event, that has affected indigenous peoples in Colombia and across the Continent.
Given the number of acts of violence in Colombia against indigenous peoples and their organizations, CONAIE believes it is imperative and urgent that international action be taken to investigate the facts, so that those responsible are punished to the full extent of the law .
CONAIE's statement went on to say that the murder of Edwin Legarda is not an isolated incident. They note that International human rights organizations have shown that leaders of Ecuador's social
organizations and its Afro-Ecuadorian and indigenous communities are also the victims of gross violations of their fundamental
human rights.
The self-defense of indigenous territories remains the major cause of these
conflicts and associated crimes against humanity, which can not and should not continue with impunity. For our peoples, territories are crucial in the exercise of our right to life.
In the short-term, CONAIE calls upon the UN Special Rapporteur for Indigenous Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, [Mayan] Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú Tum, to speak on the proposal of the commission of inquiry and to ensure its creation.
La Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (Conaie), hace pública su firme condena al asesinato en Colombia del líder indígena Edwin Legarda el pasado 16 de diciembre, y pide el establecimiento de una Comisión Internacional de Investigación sobre un hecho que afecta a los Pueblos Indígenas de Colombia y del Continente, informó un boletín de CONAIE.
Ante la serie de hechos de violencia acaecidos en Colombia contra los pueblos indígenas y sus expresiones organizativas, la Conaie considera que es imperativa y urgente una acción internacional que investigue estos hechos con la finalidad de que sus responsables sean sancionados con todo el rigor de la ley.
Debe señalarse que el asesinato de Edwin Legarda no es un hecho aislado, pues los organismos de derechos humanos internacionales han señalado que en ese país dirigentes sociales, organizativos, afroecuatorianos e indígenas, son víctimas de graves violaciones a sus derechos fundamentales.
CIMAC Noticias
Dec. 18, 2008
/ Welcome
Hillary
Clinton: Well. Jamie, the fact that
this is a modern-day form of slavery was shocking to me. When I
realized, because of my travels and exposure as First Lady, how
prevalent it was, I determined that we should do something about
it.
September 23, 2003
