Forced displacement in Chiapas

Within the framework of Human Rights Day, celebrated on December 10, Natarén and Aquino presented an analysis of the prevailing situation in the entity, where at least 6,500 people live in a situation of displacement and are denied all their guarantees individual.

Chiapas, together with Guerrero, are the states with the highest number of displaced people. The current largest number of people who have had to leave their community forcibly come from the Altos de Chiapas region, specifically from Chenalhó and Aldama.

Although the cases of displacement are different and generated by problems that at first glance seem different, the consequences suffered by families in both places are the same: the systematic violation of their human rights, since they do not have access to decent housing, to the most basic services such as drinking water or the right to health.

The activist and president of the Ku’untik Center for Human Rights (CDH), Diego Cadenas Gordillo, stated that forced displacement in the state is a phenomenon that has mainly affected the lives of indigenous people, a situation that has prevailed for decades. From 2009 to January 2017, in Mexico 310,527 people had to be displaced internally due to violence or due to territorial, religious or political conflicts, according to the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH).

Chiapas shares the seriousness of this social problem with Guerrero, both are the states that most register this type of situation, which is why they are the only ones that have a State Council for Comprehensive Attention to Internal Displacement, “but, despite this, The existence of the Comprehensive Law for Attention to Internal Displacement has not been prevented, nor has it been avoided, less adequately cared for displaced people in both entities. In Chiapas, the council is legally constituted and eventually meets, but not as it should be ”.

The director of CDH Ku'untik concluded that it is important to note that “the Mexican state is not complying with the international obligations it assumed on the issue of internal forced displacement and that, although we can consider progress regarding the recognition that there are people in a situation of displacement that require attention and solution, goes very slowly. People continue to be displaced and go hungry. There is an emergency regarding the disappeared and the displaced ”.

Post by: Daniela Osorio

De los Santos, S., Natarén, L., Aquino, M., & Leyte, A. (2020, December 10). Desplazamiento forzado en Chiapas, un martirio prolongado. Retrieved December 13, 2020, from https://aquinoticias.mx/desplazamiento-forzado-en-chiapas-un-martirio-prolongado/

Ministry of Economy authorizes 13 new mining projects in Guerrero

 

The Ministry of Economy, through the General Mining Coordination, authorized 13 mining projects in Guerrero to exploit gold, silver, iron and copper, and one more for aluminum.

Among the 13 concessioned projects, there are around 1,800 hectares that mining companies and entrepreneurs intend to explore and exploit; They range from the Papagayo River to the Coyuca River and the La Coscolina hill, on the Costa Grande of Guerrero.

For ten years, in Guerrero, mining concessions have been granted in indigenous and peasant territories, several of them open pit, as in the case of Carrizalillo in Zumpango, where the ecosystem has been destroyed. The La Montaña Tlachinollan Human Rights Center has denounced that various concessions are granted to mining companies without the consent of the population.

I think that the competent authorities should address the issue to avoid environmental and social injustices with the indigenous people that inhabit the region, for me this is a clear example that large companies and the government itself misuse their power. 

Post by Diana Gonzalez 

                       www.guerrero.quadratin.com.mx (2020,November, 30). "Achievements and Challenges in Chiapas". Retrieved December 06, 2020. From https://guerrero.quadratin.com.mx/autoriza-secretaria-de-economia-13-nuevos-proyectos-mineros-en-guerrero/

Climate crisis poses challenges

The Chiapas University of Sciences and Arts (Unicach) provides research and high-level human resources, capable of generating knowledge and proposing alternative solutions around climate change, highlighted the rector José Rodolfo Calvo Fonseca.

The foregoing, regarding the participation of Dr. Silvia Ramos Hernández, in the second Webinar "The Paris agreements in the face of the Covid-19 crisis: situation of the Expected and Determined Contributions for Chiapas."

During the second webinar, the director of the Institute for Research on Risk Management and Climate Change (IIGERCC) presented a report on the current status of the Climate Action Program of the State of Chiapas (PACCH), in her capacity as president of the Advisory Council on Change Chiapas climate.

In this regard, he pointed out that climate change, as a global environmental problem, poses challenges in the construction of a new type of development for human societies.

He said that in 2010, IIGERCC specialists designed the PACCH, which four years later became the State Program against Climate Change (PECCH) with the advice of local and national experts, and the inventory groups were created, legal framework and vulnerability.

Posted by: Vanessa Bazán

diariodechiapas.com/ (2020, December 03). UNICACH will provide research on food and nutritional security. Retrieved on December 03, 2020 from https://diariodechiapas.com/region/crisis-climatica-plantea-retos/143279

TELECOMUNICACIONES INDIGENAS COMUNITARIAS WINS SPECTRUM THAT WILL BE THE PILLAR OF ITS 4G NETWORK

Social works in the South Pacific Zone have begun to take on a certain importance within the pandemic, because according to Nicolás Lucas for El Economista, the Asociación Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias A.C. At the beginning of the pandemic, requested a concession for social use to exploit spectrum in the 10 GHz band, which will work to speed up its current voice traffic and then the megabytes generated by its users in rural communities.

This operator has coverage in the states of Oaxaca, Chiapas and Guerrero (that is, the entire South Pacific Zone) as well as in Veracruz.

Telecomunicaciones Indigenas Comunitarias currently operates a 2G network, but its plans are to evolve that network to a 4G infrastructure to provide high-speed Internet to indigenous communities, thus becoming a sort of fifth operator in Mexico with investment in its own 4G network together with Telcel, Movistar, AT&T and Altán Redes, although their coverage is limited only to very particular rural towns in the South-Southeast of Mexico.

This process will benefit the indigenous communities of the South Pacific Zone, giving its users greater opportunities to integrate more quickly into the globalized world, which can also be an opportunity to publicize their artisan products and help them to have a voice that can be better heard at both the State and Federal level about the conditions in which they live.

The important thing is that Telecomunicaciones Indigenas Comunitarias sees its now 10 GHz band for social use as the pillar to transport the Internet traffic that will be generated by its 4G network, which is expected to start full operation in the following months, starting in San Pedro el Alto, Oaxaca.

The mechanism used by the regulator for this delivery to a small operator with social coverage objectives, such as Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias, will also be known. It is still unknown if there was a tax exemption on this installment.

This of course this is expected to improve the quality of life of the people who reside in these areas and that can be a pillar to offer better education conditions, which can attract in the long term a greater investment to the area, better living conditions and economic prosperity.

POST BY SERGIO ENRIQUE LEON DE LA CRUZ

https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/Telecomunicaciones-Indigenas-Comunitarias-gana-espectro-que-sera-pilar-de-su-red-4G-20201130-0047.html

South-southeast states, with the greatest dynamism in construction value

By November 26, 2020, according to the newspaper "El economista", the South-Southeast zone of the country (which includes the South Pacific Zone in its entirety, that is, the states of Oaxaca, Guerrero and Chiapas) showed dynamism in the production value of the construction sector in contrast to the fall within the same industry at the national level caused by the covid-19 pandemic, with Oaxaca being the leader in this branch, being the entity in the country that has had the most annual growth in that field.

Oaxaca reported a growth of its annual value in construction from 15% to 35%, being Chiapas with a growth of 10.3% and Guerrero with a growth of 12.3%.

According to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, during September of this year, construction in Mexico generated 21,243 million pesos, an amount that meant an annual drop of 25.2% in real terms. With this result, there are already 27 annual decreases in a row, that is, more than two years in negative lands.

The foregoing shows that the health emergency exacerbated the decline in this industry (in April and May the worst historical results were obtained, with decreases of 31.5 and 34.6%, respectively, due to the fact that they were months of total confinement and stoppage of non-essential activities) , but the lag is from before, due to the cutback to public investment by the Federation.

This behavior in Oaxaca derived from the injection of resources made by the Private Initiative. The increases in construction came from the private sector, with triple-digit variations, while public works show annual contractions since the beginning of 2019.

POST BY SERGIO ENRIQUE LEON DE LA CRUZ

https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/estados/Estados-del-sur-sureste-con-el-mayor-dinamismo-en-valor-de-la-construccion-20201126-0137.html
 

Achievements and Challenges in Chiapas

 Slow Food which is a global, grassroots organization, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions it began to work in Chiapas, with the launch of the milpa system Presidium that aims to increase the availability of agroecologically grown corn and strengthen the production chain of tostadas, making visible the role and knowledge of women and raising awareness to society about the importance of supporting these processes. One of the main activities has been the creation, in the municipality of Mitontic, of a group of seed guardians and a seed bank for the conservation of local varieties of corn, promoting their consumption and processing.

In Chiapas, the project focuses on two different geographical areas: On the first, the production and sale of corn tostadas represent an activity that contributes to the conservation of biocultural heritage, among the improvements that were identified in the process of making tostadas are the making of different flavors, changes in the techniques for better transportation, the incorporation of eco-technologies, and construction of the Casa de Barro in Teopisca.

I think this project is important because the corn is one of the most important elements of our culture, the women strengthened their productive capacities and acquired awareness about the consumption and production of good, clean, and healthy food through training and technical.

Post by Diana Gonzalez 

                       www.slowfood.com (2020,November, 23). "Achievements and Challenges in Chiapas". Retrieved November 29, 2020. From https://www.slowfood.com/achievements-and-challenges-in-chiapas

The effect of the pandemic in Guerrero

The article by Rogelio Agustín Esteban seeks to analyze the challenge that the covid-19 pandemic has been for the Guerrero administration during fiscal year 2020, since it inevitably had a highly negative impact on the approved budget for the fiscal year that is about to close.

He mentions that Tulio Samuel Pérez Calvo, head of the Ministry of Finance of the Guerrero government, said that the pandemic not only represents a health problem, it is an economic and budgetary issue, as well as detailed that said health emergency generated not only a change in the health of Guerrero, as the state administration made drastic decisions to boost the economy. He said that the intention was always in the sense of saving thousands of lives, trying to stop contagion through the suspension of tourist and economic activities, which represent a large part of the income of Guerrero. To date, the economic impact of the pandemic has resulted in the loss of thousands of jobs, formal and informal, in the seven regions of the state. He explained that the impact of the pandemic had an impact that exceeded 10 billion pesos of the State Gross Domestic Product and as a result thousands of jobs were lost.

The affectations for the state, by concept of federal participations amount to 1,487.4 million pesos, while in the contributions in 800.8 million pesos, which adds about 2,300 million pesos less than what was scheduled to be received in this year. He indicated that for the state it was necessary to launch an austerity program, generating in recent months two budget adjustments that resulted in obtaining 441.2 million pesos, which the finance secretary assured, were not enough since the expenses destined for the attention of the pandemic, until the month of October were 1,322.52 million pesos.

Agustín Esteban, R. (2020, November 26). Pandemia de covid-19, el mayor problema de la economía de Guerrero. Retrieved November 26, 2020, from https://www.milenio.com/estados/pandemia-de-covid-19-el-mayor-problema-de-la-economia-de-guerrero