DESPITE ATTEMPTED BOYCOTT, TACURO DECIDES IN FAVOR OF SELF–GOVERNMENT
TACURO ANTAKUA VICTORY FOR TACURO!
THE CHILCHOTA TOWN HALL
TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND COMMUNITIES
TO THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO AND MICHOACÁN
TO THE MEDIA
THE MEXICAN STATE
Indigenous and Afro–Mexican communities in #Michoacán as of February 27, 2025.
K’eri Kunkorhekua Iretecheri, the Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán #CSIM, an autonomous and independent council of governments, political parties and religious institutions, made up of traditional authorities from 70 communities, we jointly state the following:
The P’urhépecha community of #Tacuro, an ancestral village with hundreds of years of history, located in the Cañada de los Eleven Peoples in the Municipality of #Chilchota, today, gathered in the General Assembly, maximum authority of the primitive peoples, determined with 307 votes in favor and 0 against, to directly manage their resources, to be governed by uses and customs and to self–govern.
This exercise of direct democracy, convened by the civil and communal authorities of Tacuro and protected by the historical, international, constitutional and state right that the indigenous peoples have to exercise their free self–determination, is totally relevant and historic, since it was held despite the attempted boycott by the Municipal President of Chilchota Alejandra Ortiz Suárez and his Secretary of the City Council Oskar Pake Gómez, who through a group of inhabitants of Tacuro, mainly employees of the City Council as well as their relatives, took the road Carapan–Zamora to try to stop the consultation, however, the people of Tacuro woke up, did not pay attention to the provocations and voted in favor of their autonomy.
From the four P’urhépecha regions, the Hñahñú or Otomi region, the Matlatzinca or Pirinda region, the Nahua region and the Afro–Mexican region of #Michoacan, we congratulate the people of Tacuro fraternally and invite all the peoples and communities to undertake a State Day of Struggle in Defense of Autonomy and against President Alejandra Ortiz Suarez and Oskar Pake Gómez, enemies of the indigenous peoples who refuse to recognize their free self–determination and autonomy.
From this moment, we hold the Municipal President Alejandra Ortiz Suárez and the Secretary of the City Council Oskar Pake Gómez directly responsible for any repression, arbitrary detention or criminalization that may be suffered by the comrades who are demanding self–government.
To the peoples and communities members of the CSIM we ask them carefully and respectfully to prepare to attend the call to the State Day of Struggle in Defense of Autonomy that we are about to begin. The communities of the Cañada de los Eleven Peoples are not alone, it is time to collectively actualize.
We demand that the City of Chichota approve the transfer of resources to the community of Tacuro!
TERUNHASKUA K’OIA, ECHERI KA JURAMUKUKUKUKUKUU IAMENTU IRETECHANI
JUSTICE, TERRITORY AND AUTONOMY FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
SUPREME INDIGENOUS COUNCIL OF MICHOACÁN #CSIM