María Tzuc Dzib:
We are on day 4 of the Permanent Forum of Indigenous Peoples, a time in which we have heard different denunciations, petitions and manifestos from the diverse Indigenous peoples that exist in the world.
It is difficult to listen to each of the experiences lived in the Indigenous territories because they all share dispossession, extractivism, deforestation, destruction and contamination of rivers that are sources of life. Each intervention in the forum is the reconfirmation of a crisis that affects the physical health of Indigenous peoples, but also sickens our beliefs and our spirit.
What is really being done to heal mother earth? In this forum, we are people from different generations, young and old, who also come to denounce the criminalization of our movement for the protection of our territories.
There are advances in the recognition of Indigenous peoples as free to make decisions in their territories, but it is not enough a recognition on paper, it is necessary immediate action and implementation of the recommendations of respect for the dynamics of life of Indigenous peoples.
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