Apreciad@s compañer@s,
Es mi turno de agradecer vuestras gentiles palabras por mi humilde apoyo a
vuestra noble causa y la del Pueblo Mexicano - y por ello en contra del
ecocidio criminal de quienes dañan a la Madre Tierra y a los pobladores de
las comunidades del Oriente del Estado de México, en su afán de lucro.

Espero que la Relatora de la ONU os preste la atención y apoyo que vuestros
abnegados esfuerzos y lucha en contra del megaproyecto del aeropuerto de
Texcoco ameritan.

Como ustedes saben, fueron Rodolfo Stavenhagen, mi extraordinario maestro
mexicano y amigo querido, el anterior Relator de la ONU para los Derechos
Humanos de los Pueblos Indígenas (QEPD) y Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, en calidad
de Presidenta de la Plataforma Permanente de DDHHs en la ONU, quienes
juntos lograron que la ONU reconociera finalmente los derechos mencionados,
a pesar de la oposición de muchos países.

Por ello, me permito sugerirles que inviten, para honrar la memoria de
Rodolfo, al eventual encuentro del 11 de Noviembre de la Coordinadora con
la actual relatora, a la Dra. Elia Stavenhagen, la viuda del Dr. Rodolfo
Stavenhagen, y también al representante del PNUD y de la CEPAL al mismo
evento, para amplificar vuestras demandas.

Fraternalmente
Azril
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On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 5:00 AM, Coordinadora Ote Edomex <
coordinadoradepueblosdelorienteedomex@...> wrote:

>
> Apreciable compañero Azril:
>
> Le estamos muy agradecidos por su invaluable ayuda.
> Seguiremos atentos a cualquier posible respuesta ó indicaciones por parte
> de la Relatora.
> Fraternalmente.
>
> CPOOEM.
>
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> *De:* Azril Bacal <bazril@...>
> *Enviado:* viernes, 15 de septiembre de 2017 01:20 p. m.
> *Para:* vicky tauli-corpuz; unsr@...; indigenous@...
> *CC:* Elia Stavenhagen; ROBERTO SAVIO
> *Asunto:* Fwd: Atenta solicitud-RV: Visita a México 2017 / Your visit to
> Mexico 2017.
>
> Querida Vicky,
> Te ruego atiendas la solicitud de l@s compañer@s de la Coordinadora de
> los Pueblos del Oriente del Estado de México, abajo adjunta, durante tu
> importante visita a México el 11 de Noviembre.
> Fraternalmente
> Azril
> _______
>
> *Enviado:* lunes, 11 de septiembre de 2017 11:18 p. m.
> *Para:* unsr@...; indigenous@...
> *Asunto:* Visita a México 2017 / Your visit to Mexico 2017.
>
> *September 11th, 2017.*
>
>
>
>
>
> *VICTORIA TAULI-CORPUZ*
>
> *UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR*
>
> *ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES*
>
>
>
> On the occasion of your forthcoming official visit to Mexico scheduled for
> 8 to 17 November 2017, we are writing to provide information about the
> impact that is already causing to the communities and native peoples of the
> Valley of Mexico, the construction of the New Mexico City International
> Airport on the grounds of the Texcoco Lake and its associated works; and
> also to suggest to kindly consider our case among your topics to review and
> the possibility of visit.
>
>
>
> Since the announcement of the second attempt of construction of the New
> Mexico City International Airport (NAICM) on September 1st, 2014,
> scientists, indigenous peoples and civil society, have been denouncing the
> aggression, the dirty war and the very serious violation of fundamental
> human rights (to life, water, a healthy environment, food and
> consultation, among others), as well as providing proof of the *non-feasibility
> and illegality* of this megaproject that would mean the end of the
> Texcoco Lake, the hydric collapse of all the Mexico’s Valley including the
> very city of Mexico, besides the irreversible affectation of the flora,
> fauna and environment and the extermination of the native peoples.
>
>
>
> Within the scientific analysis provided by specialists in: Geography,
> Digital cartography and Remote perception, Political Geography,
> Hydrogeology, Ecology, Climate Change, Earth Sciences, Petrology, Tectonics
> of Plates, Renewable Energy, Megaprojects in Latin America, Research in
> North America; Environmental law, Right of peoples, Civil Engineering,
> Architecture and Urbanism, Philosophy and Letters, History and Civilization
> of the Anahuac, it was noted that our domestic spaces are being recreated
> with a financial logic, in a global transformation, that domestically is
> leading us in an indiscriminate manner to a number of issues of great
> importance, as reflected in the number of protests against what we have
> termed generically as megaprojects.
>
>
>
> On the other hand, a cartographic tour provided a greater understanding
> with regard to the tragedy that is being plotted in the Texcoco Lake,
> providing us more precise elements in relation to the water bodies as well
> as the rivers that are intended to channel in a single drain sending them
> to the Nabor Carrillo Lake and then to the eastern drainage tunnel, as
> means of avoiding flooding of what would be runways, as well as the
> peasants agricultural nuclei affectation by the roads, industrial areas,
> railways, high tension transmission line towers, pipelines and the real
> estate over development (ARA, GEO, SADASI) that exceeds the growth natural
> of the towns, that belies what Enrique Pena Nieto stated, that the project
> would not affect the ejidal nuclei and already there has been lands
> looting, eviction with violence and demolitions (Tequisistlán,
> Nexquipayac, El Barco, Atenco and Tocuila) through the use of the
> security forces: the army; the navy; federal, state and municipal police
> and bullies of the attack paramilitary group from PRI-antorcha campesina.
>
> The original project consists of 2 terminals, 6 runways, hangars areas and
> an Aerotropolis or city adjacent to the New Airport, not included in the
> environmental impact manifest (MIA) and for which it is not clear where the
> water source will be drawn from to supply it, besides the risk of land
> sinking by the aquifer overexploitation.  The perimeter fence in process
> and later with runway 3, they intend to ensure control of the project
> demarcation at the Texcoco Lake, depriving the communities of more than 650
> hectares of ejidal farm lands.
>
> Sacred hills that protect us are being destroyed with explosives and being
> depredated, their forests and ecosystems for replacement of soil *not
> suitable* of the Texcoco Lake bed by granular materials as tezontle,
> tepetate and stone, believing that with such materials the runways will not
> sink; this results in the traffic through streets and communal lands of
> heavy machinery, thousands of trucks and trailers and soon a train; also
> filling the tunnels of the old mines in the area of the mountain (where
> indigenous communities nahua-speakers live, heirs of the ancient wisdom as
> traditional medicine) with toxic sludge and other debris deposited for
> teens of years in the lake area; in addition to the cost increase.
>
> The Strategic Center of Environmental Recovery on the shore of Lake
> Texcoco, a fairly large area known as Los Tlateles in Chimalhuacan
> territory, are lands that were taken by the paramilitary attack group of
> PRI-antorcha campesina, in legal dispute now. The enlargements of the
> highways, the metrobus lines, the diversion of the subway line 3 going to
> Ciudad Azteca and high-speed trains, are also complementary works of the
> New Airport, already causing affectations.
>
> The Endorheic basin of the Valley of Mexico was formed over millions of
> years; in the basin water seeps from elevated parts of the mountains that
> surround it and has no natural outlet, hence the Texcoco Lake is an
> essential part. A closed basin at over two thousand meters of height in the
> highlands, generates an environment very favorable for life, however, the
> construction of the New Airport would end with its prehistoric strip, with
> historical efforts aimed at preserving the water as the Nabor Carrillo Lake
> and with its natural regulatory function of temperature and rain water, of
> the Texcoco Lake. In addition, the nonsense of continuing pumping and
> taking water out with deep drains, puts in a high risk the hydric collapse
> the entire basin, including the city of Mexico. After the 85 earthquakes,
> when drilling wells in the area of the Texcoco Lake, it was found that its
> floor is formed of limestone from the Cretaceous period, clay, plaster,
> porcelain, bentonite and eruption volcanic rocks and that even when
> drilling to 2,500 meters of depth, the base was not reached. On the other
> hand, the lowest point of the Valley of Mexico basin is located in the
> Texcoco Lake, precisely where they intend to build the New Airport; the
> Nabor Carrillo Lake is higher and could flood the runways. Certainly as
> multinational business already filled the United States, Japan and Europe,
> need to survive and the only way is with works each time more monstrous.
> The basin of the Valley of Mexico is an ideal place to produce and not for
> importation of United States surpluses.
>
>
>
> Why the New Airport should not be built on the bed of Texcoco Lake?
>
> First, because it is a tectonic depression with 90% of clay soil, which
> can sink if dry; second because is an highly seismic area and a zone of
> charge and discharge of storm water; and finally, because to dry or pipe
> all water currents would an ecocide. The Lake Texcoco area is not suitable
> for a project of this magnitude in addition, an efficient re-adaptation of
> the existing airports system in the Central Region of the country and in
> the tourism centers of Cancun-Quintana Roo and Acapulco-Guerrero, would
> resolve the demand for travelers and cargo air transportation domestically;
> but the death megaproject of the New Mexico City International Airport
> (NAICM) does not obey real needs but the interests of the great Capital and
> of the politicians that serve them, as in the case of Enrique Peña Nieto,
> the Atlacomulco Group of the State of Mexico and the Hidalgo Group of Jesus
> Murillo Karam and of Miguel Angel Osorio Chong would allow them more wealth
> and prevail in power at the coast of sacrificing the Texcoco Lake and of
> greater misery of the people of Mexico; In addition that contrary to
> international laws, the New Mexico City International Airport, would be the
> only one in the world in coexistence with a live volcano: Popocatepetl and
> built in one of the most populated cities on the planet.
>
> The official arguments that support the need to build the New Airport have
> been: the favorable impact on economic and social development of the
> country, the creation of infrastructure and administrative modernization,
> but what the project actually represents, it is the way of doing politics
> in Mexico: centralized by a hegemonic group and with huge "extra-costs", in
> the context of the global struggle for the air transport market.
>
> Recent research (Interferometry) define the annual subsidence of the
> Texcoco Lake area in thirty centimeters a year i.e. 3 meters in 10 years
> and corroborate their vulnerability, *since the risk of flooding is rea*l;
> the relationship hurricane-flooding shows that it would require weeks to
> remove the water from the Texcoco Lake.
>
>
>
> The Mexico City Airport Group is denying the aquatic vocation of the
> Valley of Mexico and imposing a forestry "vocation" even with imported
> species of trees that, by not having predators in Mexico, would turn into a
> plague. The denial of the aquatic vocation of the basin of the Valley of
> Mexico is the original sin of the New Mexico City International Airport
> project (NAICM), since the endorheic basin between 1420 and 1440 resulted
> in extraordinary works such as the Huey Tlatoani Netzahualcoyotl
> Acolmitztli "albarradón", a 10 mile dam to provide the Great Tenochtitlan
> freshwater and remove saltwater and when there was danger of flooding to
> open the floodgates; and towards the second half of the 20th century by
> the excellent engineers Nabor Carrillo and Gerardo Cruickshank, the Nabor
> Carrillo Lake, a tiny part reconstituted of the Texcoco Lake, a successful
> project since it is inhabited by more than 120 thousand migratory birds.
> Most of the birds fly high and apparently their "routes" are the same that
> will be used by aviation, so just like the Nabor Carrillo Lake, they are in
> severe danger.
>
>
>
> The ecocide features of the project are clear, the long history of land
> plundering and looting of the water to the people; but there is an aspect
> that not yet visualized: with what energy the New Airport will be provided?
> Apparently will be supplied by a gas pipeline from the United States of
> North America. Can the energy system of the new airport be based on a fuel
> that we lack?  What are we doing?
>
>
>
> It is evident that the project of the New Airport has nothing to do with
> strategic planning, or technics or technologies, but simply with a business
> interest. The capitalist system is based on dispossession and they have
> been preparing everything to deliver the wealth of Mexico to the great
> Capital. From 1521 began in this country this stage and they have left an
> indelible imprint of death and destruction. Mega-projects are the
> continuation of a colonial system, so we must strengthen our identity and
> recuperate our historical memory, because this is a problem of over 500
> years.
>
>
>
> It is irrational to locate to the New Airport in an area with lacustrine
> vocation, a huge zone especially beautiful and productive; but generating
> business is what is behind this ecological, economic and social absurdity
> that for the owners of the money is of no importance, because it is about
> generating profits at the expense of whatever. On the other hand, laws are
> modified and others repealed and make contrary to the interests of the
> nation, thus the peoples that defend their territory, face a legal battle
> in conditions of absolute inequality, which extends to all the social
> sectors that today fight against the neoliberal megaprojects.
>
>
>
> The army and navy levels of repression and torture have increased are
> mainly accused. The army fulfills a function that the people of Mexico do
> not need, since the military are prepared to kill not to deter, this is why
> they cannot have police functions.
>
> This fight against the construction of the New Airport and its
> complementary works that is becoming international, depicts once more in
> evidence that not it is not a required work, but a folly already in
> progress. Hence, when fighting against this nonsense and defending the
> people of the basin of the Valley of Mexico, it is defending the Mexican
> nation and the whole of humanity.
>
> Despite knowing the gravity of what all this means, to impose the New
> Airport, the Government of Mexico held an informative meeting in October
> 2014 in the municipality of Ecatepec, State of Mexico, and made it appear
> as a public consultation, to *illegally* authorize the environmental
> impact manifestation (MIA) and be able to authorize works commencement,
> discarding the 2001 MIA prepared by the environment program of the UNAM
> that determined the New Airport project in Texcoco Lake as *NON-VIABLE*,
> in addition to being public conflict of interest by hiring for preparation
> of the MIA the Environmental Specialists, S.A. de C.V., company whose
> founder Rodolfo Lacy Tamayo acted at the same time as undersecretary of
> planning and environmental policy of SEMARNAT and the Biologists College of
> Mexico, A.C. on whose Board of Directors was Juan José Guerra Abud, then
> Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), *which renders
> any further process illegal*.
>
> Today, although the land leveling for roads and runways, as well as the
> construction of the fence perimeter of the New Airport represents a minimum
> advance, they are already causing mines detonation, construction of
> gigantic garbage disposals (Metropolitan landfills), incinerators, gas
> pipelines, not required road infrastructure, irregular settlements,
> shopping malls, disappearance of public spaces and local trade, plundering
> of lands of culture and common use, change of land use from forest to
> agricultural and from agricultural to urban, expropriation of "public
> utilities" for private use, agriculture by contract, alarming dependence
> food, deforestation, desiccation, pollution of aquifers, increase in the
> temperature (change climate), shortage of water, pollution of seeds
> native with crops transgenic, unemployment, destruction of historical
> heritage, archaeological and cultural, loss of  identity, the
> municipalization of water as a preamble to its privatization, piping of
> springs and water wells from irrigation to carry vital liquid to the area
> of Lake Texcoco, if this work and complementary works continuation is
> allowed, the impact shock wave would lead to the same effects for the
> States of the Central Region and the rest of the country. We also face
> corruption, public health problems, insecurity, drug trafficking, human
> trafficking, loss of autonomy, authoritarianism, criminalization of social
> protest, intimidation, robberies, murders, political prisoners,
> disappearances, backwardness, poverty, division, ignorance, discrimination,
> resentment, violence, fear and a dirty war with the use of the institutions
> of the State of Mexico (SCT, CFE, CONAGUA, SEMARNAT, SEDATU, INAH, etc.),
> religion, the media and of the paramilitary attack Group of Antorcha
> Campesina-PRI, for the subjugation of peoples and elimination of social
> protest; defamation campaigns and disparagement of human rights defenders,
> simulations, electoral frauds, destruction of the social fabric,
> manipulation and deception of indigenous and peasants to convince them of
> delivering their lands and become slaves in their own territory; In
> summary, gentrification and the extermination of native peoples.
>
>
> Our activities in defense of life and heritage of the Texcoco Lake,
> question the absurdity, arbitrariness, and the absurdities, both of the
> mega airport in different places of the world, and the aberrant and
> irresponsible expansion of an industry now in decadence, that from the
> environmental, social and moral responsibility point of view, infringes on
> nature, culture, customs and lifestyles of native peoples, the integrity of
> the social fabric, human life and the future.
>
>
> The territory of the Texcoco Lake was declared a Federal zone *for its
> conservation and its non urbanization*, not for one Government, anyone,
> believes that it can dispose of it as if it were its property. The Texcoco
> Lake is a site of high historical value, symbol of national identity,
> property of the nation and of all Mexicans.
>
>
> *We are against* the intrusion of political parties and the purchase of
> conscience; of the "donation" of properties to the attack paramilitary
> Group PRI-antorcha campesina; recruitment of native settlers from coastal
> communities to work in the Lake and unknowingly help in its destruction and
> then manipulate them to generate violence and division and use them in
> clashes with people affected by the NAICM of the same communities; of the
> siege of disinformation; the strategy of uprooting of the native peoples;
> chaotic urbanization; of the division of our communities and original
> peoples by the connectivity works for the New Airport; the NAICM
> "greenwashing"; the diversion of public funds and irresponsible loans which
> becomes the people of Mexico debt by the signing of billions of dollars
> credits with foreign banks for unnecessary works such as the New Airport;
> for the pollution of the underground water; the noise of air traffic; and
> intentional congestion of the current Airport Benito Juarez to simulate a
> greater demand for passenger and freight traffic.
>
>
> *And we are in favor of* life and heritage of Texcoco Lake, Sanctuary of
> endemic plants and animal species, of hundreds of thousands of migratory
> birds and ancestral nutritional treasures as the spirulina, the ahuautle
> and the tequesquite (land salt).
>
>
> In case you require photographs or further information, please do not
> hesitate to request it.
>
>
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> *ORIGINAL INHABITANTS AND NGO’s EASTERN STATE OF MEXICO COORDINATION*
>
> *IN DEFENSE OF THEIR LAND, WATER AND CULTURE*
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> Contact:
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> E-mail: coordinadoradepueblosdelorienteedomex@...
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> Facebook.com/Coordinadora de Pueblos y Organizaciones del Oriente del
> Estado de México
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> Twitter: @CPOOEM_Edomex
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> Heriberto Salas Amac – Móvil 55 3959-99-53
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> Gabriela Vega Téllez – Móvil 595 107 96 06
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