Farmers Organizations Demand Mexican Government Establish Rural Development Plan Patricia Mumoz - La Jornada
go to original May 31, 2013

The Broad Campesino [traditional small farmers] Front will surround the Secretariat of Government Relations headquarters in Mexico City on June 19, with more than 30 thousand members from rural organizations, who will remain in an indefinite encampment until the head of the agency, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, opens the doors to dialogue with the governing council of the Pact for Mexico to establish a State agreement with these organizations.

Alvaro Lopez Rios, leader of the National Union of Agricultural Workers (UNTA) Federico Ovalle Vaquera of the Independent Center of Agricultural Workers and Campesinos (CIOAC) and Javier Eduardo López, leader of the National Integrative Union of Organizations for Solidarity and Social Economy (Unimoss), warned yesterday at a press conference that if there is no response from the head of Government Relations, "we're going to sit-in indefinitely; the struggle is serious, we are not announcing one-time events."

They argued that they will not accept a deal "to eat and leave" and will stay just outside the agency until they reach agreements and that this will be the first of many actions from the Front, since the federal government and the political parties do not want to acknowledge the food crisis that Mexico is suffering.

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Posted by Reed Brundage at Mexico Voices
 

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