The Ministry of the Interior reiterated the call to avoid road blockages and stated that it is keeping the dialogue open in the face of disagreement among agricultural producers.
Mexico City, December 3 (However).- The Ministry of the Interior (Segob) urged on Tuesday agricultural producers of Puebla, Veracruz y Tlaxcala to avoid road blocks and allow the free transit in the highways of the region during its mobilizations.
Through a statementthe agency reported that yesterday there were mobilizations in different road sectionswhere the caravans They advanced towards the Chamber of Deputies in the Mexico City (CdMx). However, he reported that the highway Acatzingo-Ciudad Mendozain the municipality of Quecholac, Pueblaremained closed due to the presence of protesters, even though the groups had announced that they would not carry out closures.
As a result, he specified that the protest actions generated impacts on traffic, which is why he confirmed that the blockades contradicted the initial commitment of the producers, who had indicated that their marches would only be passing through.
Given this scenario, the Secretariat explained that the Representative Offices and state governments sought a rapprochement with the leaders of the caravans to propose an institutional dialogue. However, the producers rejected the offer, which has prevented the installation of tables to address their concerns without affecting third parties.
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“The agency recognizes the right of citizens to demonstrate and express their demands; however, it reiterates the importance of these actions being carried out responsibly, avoiding impacts on third parties, free movement and the operation of essential services for the communities,” the bulletin reads.
The authorities indicated that the Government of Mexico maintains its obligation to listen, attend and build solutions through direct dialogue, in order not to harm the population while efforts to reach agreements continue.
On November 28, the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism of the United Mexican States (Concanaco) warned that the blockades carried out from November 19 to 26 generated losses of between three billion and six billion pesos (mp).
“Protesting is a right. Preventing families from working, getting supplies and getting to their activities on time cannot be the cost of any disagreement. It is time to agree on a solution route, free up strategic corridors and protect household income,” said Octavio de la Torre, president of Concanaco in a statement.
The Confederation pointed out that, based on public reports from authorities and business organizations, at least 29 closures were recorded in 17 states, which have seriously affected the mobility of goods, the supply of products and the daily operation of thousands of companies.
In this way, the organization proposed four urgent actions to mitigate the economic impact:
- Install an immediate technical table with clear objectives.
- Enable free transit corridors with priority for food, medicine and essential goods.
- Create a public real-time information mechanism about closures and alternative routes.
- Guarantee that the right to demonstrate does not nullify the right to work and free movement.
Water Law seeks order and transparency: Sheinbaum
This morning, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo reiterated that the General Water Law is necessary to order the use of water resources and guarantee access, maintaining that the initiative seeks to stop overexploitation and make the management of concessions transparent.
The president explained that the reform proposal aims to prevent the commercialization of the transfer of water rights and reinforce the participation of the National Water Commission (Conagua) in each procedure. With this, he pointed out that the initiative establishes expeditious and transparent processes to avoid irregular practices and strengthen the supervision of the resource.
“The essence of why we proposed the change to the National Water Law is to protect the natural resource, prevent its overexploitation and guarantee the right to water, and stop seeing water as a commodity, and see it as a resource and as a right, as we proposed from the beginning, which is the essence, of the change to the National Water Law,” he explained from the National Palace.
Sheinbaum stated that those who oppose the changes are sectors that maintain privileges associated with access and use of water, including cases of unused or non-standard concessions. As a result, he highlighted that his Government consolidated a national database on concessionaires to give greater clarity to the use of the resource and reinforce surveillance.
The President indicated that the Government of Mexico will continue to advance in the organization of the water system and in the fight against corruption in the transfer of rights. These modifications include details on agricultural use, such as allowing water intended for agriculture to also be used for livestock without the need to update permits.
“We must continue to advance and we are putting order, we must put order to avoid corruption and to guarantee that we all have water, or that in those places where there is a shortage of water, human consumption of water is privileged, so that is what we are doing and avoid this transfer of rights that has generated a lot of corruption and water hoarding and that is not in order,” he concluded.
Tractor caravan arrives in Mexico City
The tractor caravan made up of agricultural producers from Veracruz, Puebla and Tlaxcala arrived in Mexico City this Wednesday to demonstrate against the reform of the National Water Law, which is being discussed today in the Chamber of Deputies.
According to the first reports, around 100 tractors entered the capital as part of the mobilization called by the Agricultural Alliance, which accuses risks for the rights to use water in rural communities.
Among the points with slow traffic are the Mexico-Puebla highway, the Mexico-Querétaro highway, the Mexico-Toluca highway, the Peñón-Texcoco highway, the Circuito Exterior Mexiquense, as well as Eduardo Molina and Fray Servando Teresa de Mier avenues.
Faced with the mobilization, producers maintain that the reform puts at risk their concessions for agricultural use and the possibility of inheriting or transmitting rights, which — they affirm — would impact field productivity and food security. In this way, they indicated that they seek to make their position visible before Congress and demand greater participation in decisions related to water management.
The organizers warned that, if their demands are not met, they are willing to expand the protest actions in the coming days, although they reiterated that the nature of the operation remains peaceful and oriented towards the defense of their rights over the use of water.
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