The San Cristobal-Palenque super-highway has been met with massive rejection, Photo @ Espoir Chiapas
On April 3, the inhabitants of the Tsotsil communities of Los Llanos and San Jose El Porvenir in the municipality of San Cristobal de Las Casas, made known in a statement that on January 18 of this year they were granted legal protection against the San Cristobal-Palenque highway project. In the sentence for legal protection 16/2014, the judge orders the cancellation of the outlines of the construction project or any other program for the highway on the stretch between the municipalities of San Cristobal-Huixtan, in particular on the lands of the communities, by the Secretariat of Communications and Transport and the Secretariat of Infrastructure of the State of Chiapas.
In the statement, the ejido demanded that, “the authorities should respect our community’s right to free consultation, previous and informed through its representatives and traditional authorities, providing information in good faith, including the possible environmental and health risks resulting from the construction of operation of the highway project.” They also underlined that their “land is not for sale, now or in the future, and we completely reject the San Cristobal-Palenque highway project because it dispossesses the indigenous communities of the most sacred thing in this life which is land.” It should be mentioned that since its beginning, many communities and those possibly affected expressed their concern about the construction of the highway, whose cost would be around ten billion pesos and would reduce the journey from San Cristobal to Palenque, two of the zones most visited by overseas and domestic tourists, from five to less than two hours
For more information in Spanish:
Dan a conocer amparo contra proyecto de autopista San Cristóbal de las Casas-Palenque (Desinformémonos, 4 de abril de 2016)
Existe amparo sobre proyecto autopista San Cristóbal de Las Casas-Palenque (Diario de Chiapas, 4 de abril de 2016)
Se otorgó el amparo contra el proyecto de la #autopista #SanCristóbal de Las Casas-#Palenque al Ejido Los Llanos y San José El Porvenir (Koman Ilel, 3 de abril de 2016)
Opositores a carretera San Cristóbal-Palenque presentan documento en contra (La Jornada, 9 de abril de 2015)
For more information from SIPAZ
Chiapas: Nuevo comunicado de San Sebastián Bachajón (18 de febrero de 2015)
Chiapas: Nuevo encuentro en Los Llanos en contra de la carretera SCLC-Palenque (14 de octubre de 2014)
Chiapas: Movilizaciones en contra del proyecto de autopista SCLC-Palenque (18 de septiembre de 2014)
Chiapas: Los Llanos y San José El Porvenir rechazan paso de autopista San Cristóbal-Palenque por sus comunidades (10 de febrero de 2014)
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