TONATIERRA
Press Release
July 7, 2020
Contact: Tupac Enrique Acosta
Cell: (602) 466-8367
www.tonatierra.org
Indigenous Peoples Denounce USMCA as a Fraud
WE DENY CONSENT!
#SelfDeterminationMatters
#SelfDeterminationMatters
#LaLibreDeterminacionSeVale!
#OrigiNaciones #OrigiNations
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Consultations and Settler States of the Americas
Phoenix, Arizona – An international alliance of
Indigenous Peoples Human Rights organizations of the continent will
deliver tomorrow a formal denunciation of the recently adopted trilateral trade
agreement between Canada-US-Mexico called the USMCA (CUSMA-TMEC). The denunciation will be presented before the
Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs as the President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) is
scheduled to meet with US President D.Trump in the official governmental
celebration finalizing of the agreement. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
will not be in attendance.
A critical issue is the illegitimate fast
tracking of megadevelopment projects such as the Dakota Access Pipeline,
the “Trump Wall” at the border and the “AMLO TRAIN” in Mexico. Such policies of collusion between corporate
and state officials are blatant violations of the right of Free, Prior, and
Informed Consent as is stipulated in the UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples (2007).
AMLO is under heavy criticism
in Mexico for realizing such a state visit to the US under the pall of the coronavirus
pandemic and without denouncing the immigration and refugee policies of the
Trump administration regarding the “Trump Wall” at the US/Mexico border.
The Continental Commission Abya Yala will
be delivering the formal denunciation of the USMCA tomorrow in Washington, DC to
address the systemic racism and international schema of ‘White
Supremacy” in Mexico that has normalized for 526 years the violent persecution
of Indigenous Peoples in defense of the Human Rights and Territories
of the Original Nations of Mexico.
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TONATIERRA: Open Letter to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
USMCA-TMEC-CUSMA 2020: Present Context
In our letter to the USMCA Working Group of the US House of Representatives on September 13th, 2019, we informed the Working Group members and House Speaker Pelosi that upon review of the public record of debate concerning the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the context of the proposed US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the systemic disregard for the human rights of Indigenous Peoples is blatantly discriminatory, unacceptable, and must be addressed before the agreement is put to vote before the House of Representatives.
In our letter to the USMCA Working Group of the US House of Representatives on September 13th, 2019, we informed the Working Group members and House Speaker Pelosi that upon review of the public record of debate concerning the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the context of the proposed US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the systemic disregard for the human rights of Indigenous Peoples is blatantly discriminatory, unacceptable, and must be addressed before the agreement is put to vote before the House of Representatives.
Specifically, we called for a full public hearing before the
appropriate committees and/or Working Group formations of the US Congress for
the purpose of informing the US congressional representatives on the right of
Indigenous Peoples to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) as stipulated in
the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) regarding
projects which impact their collective rights.
On January 1, 2020, we reiterated this concern to the Tom
Lantos Human Rights Commission of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs,
urging the Commission to conduct a full public hearing on this issue before the
vote of approval on the USMCA in the US Congress.
Neither the USMCA Working Group nor the Tom Lantos Human
Rights Commission ever responded to our petition.
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