Estimad@s companer@s,
Me alegra mucho vuestro encuentro con la Rapporteur de la ONU para los
Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas.
Les encargo un saludo especial de agradecimiento en mi nombre
Abrazo fraternal
Azril

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From: Coordinadora Ote Edomex <
coordinadoradepueblosdelorienteedomex@...>
Date: Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:21 PM
Subject: RE-ENVÍO RESPUESTA ONU - RV: Gracias a ustedes - Re: Visita a
México 2017 / Your visit to Mexico 2017.
To: "bazril@..." <bazril@...>



Muy estimado compañero Azril:

Al calce re-enviamos para su conocimiento la respuesta a nuestro envío de
información, por parte de la oficina de la Relatora Especial de la ONU para
los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas Victoria Tauli-Corpuz.
Apreciamos mucho su ayuda y le saludamos
Fraternalmente.

CPOOEM

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*De:* Coordinadora Ote Edomex <coordinadoradepueblosdelorien
teedomex@...>
*Enviado:* jueves, 28 de septiembre de 2017 03:16 p. m.
*Para:* Indigenous OHCHR
*Asunto:* Gracias a ustedes - Re: Visita a México 2017 / Your visit to
Mexico 2017.



Gracias a ustedes por su muy amable respuesta.

Con cordiales saludos.

CPOOEM.


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*De:* Hee-Kyong Yoo <hyoo@...> en nombre de Indigenous OHCHR <
indigenous@...>
*Enviado:* jueves, 28 de septiembre de 2017 10:16 a. m.
*Para:* Coordinadora Ote Edomex
*CC:* indigenous@...; unsr@...
*Asunto:* Re: Visita a México 2017 / Your visit to Mexico 2017.

Gracias por el insumo para la visita de la relatora especial para los
derechos de los pueblos indígenas, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz a México.
No dudaremos de ponernos en contacto si necesitáramos información adicional.
Un cordial saludo




From:        Coordinadora Ote Edomex <coordinadoradepueblosdelorien
teedomex@...>
To:        "unsr@..." <unsr@...>, "
indigenous@..." <indigenous@...>
Date:        12/09/2017 06:19
Subject:        Visita a México 2017 / Your visit to Mexico 2017.
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*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.

*ORIGINAL INHABITANTS AND NGO’s EASTERN STATE OF MEXICO COORDINATION*
*IN DEFENSE OF THEIR LAND, WATER AND CULTURE*

Contact:
E-mail: *coordinadoradepueblosdelorienteedomex@...*
<coordinadoradepueblosdelorienteedomex@...>
Facebook.com/Coordinadora de Pueblos y Organizaciones del Oriente del
Estado de México
Twitter: @CPOOEM_Edomex

Heriberto Salas Amac – Móvil 55 3959-99-53
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