Civil society organizations and news rejected President Obrador’s statement that they had gained investment from foreign foundations to oppose the federal government’s Maya rail project.

Obrador made the accusation at his morning press convention on Friday, where his communications coordinator provided more key points on the alleged arrangements.

The Foundations Ford, Kellogg, Rockefeller, Climate Works and National Endowment for Democracy, all in the United States, have provided resources to Mexican organizations to finance critical studies and policies of the Tren Maya, the iconic infrastructure allocation that has recently been structured in southeastern Mexico.

Among the organizations that have gained investments for this purpose, Ramarez said, is Mexico Evala, a group of public policy experts; Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI); Outrage, a human rights NGO; The Mexican Center for Environmental Law; The Mexican Civil Council for Sustainable Forestry; The Foundation for Due Process; the Regional Council of Indigenous Peoples of Xpujil (city of Calakmul, Campeche) and Animal Polotico, an independent news site.

MCCI responded in a statement from the government to be false.

“MCCI has not gained foreign investment to criticize the Maya train. Array.. The priorities of studies and editorial line followed by the MCCI … they do respond to the interests of domestic or foreign donors.”

“No donation jeopardizes the organization’s project or activities,” MCCI said, adding that it is on its own program.

The anti-corruption organization has accused the use of the “presidential podium” to discredit civil society organizations that amounts to an “abuse of power.”

“His words [those of López Obrador and Ramirez] still try to silence critical voices,” the organization said.

MCCI has been highly critical of the existing government, accusing it of corruption and joining a collective that has initiated legal action opposed to the allocation of Santa Luca airport north of Mexico City. He also published a report in May stating that the government did not report on Covid-19’s deaths.

Mexico’s director Evala also rejected the claim that he had made investment to criticize the Maya train, writing on Twitter that “what was said at the president’s [press] convention is not true.”

Edna Jaime said Mexico Evalia won donations to analyze the reforms of the justice formula but the train.

“We don’t oppose anyone,” he added. “We are [an] civil society [organization] that thinks, analyzes and builds a larger country. We paint with data, evidence, statistics and facts in Mexico Evala. We’re not opposed, we’re proposing that public money be used honestly. “

Outrage responded to Obrador’s statement through one of the president’s favorite slogans to reject his government’s denunciation.

I said, “Sir. Mr President, in reaction to the comments and criticisms you have expressed today, this team of runners would like to tell you that after 30 years of walking with the other Maya of the Yucatan Peninsula, WE ARE OTHER INFORMATIONS”. said the human rights group.

The Mexican Center for Environmental Law and the Mexican Civil Council for Sustainable Forestry also rejected the claim that they had gained foreign investment to oppose the US$8 billion Mayan exercise project, which some experts say presents a diversity of environmental hazards in the five states: Tabasco. , Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo and Chiapas – that will pass.

For his part, the director of Animal Polotico assured that the media “do obtain investment conditional on the compliment or denunciation of a public program”.

“We haven’t even published a detailed report on the Maya train. We are deeply insantic that there is something wrong with the president without evidence,” Moreno said on Twitter.

“We too are the President taking advantage of his morning press meetings to collect fees without any prior study. Those of us who produce Animal Polotico ask that you explain this fact that interferes with the journalistic paintings that we have been making for the afterlife. 10 years with the sole purpose of serving our readers,” he writes.

The news said in a report released Friday that he had won the investment of W.K. Kellogg Foundation to submit a 2017-2018 assignment on racism and inequality, which it accepted from the Ford Foundation between 2016 and 2020.

Animal Poletico said it had signed an agreement with the Ford Foundation to organize workshops and provide education to hounds running in several states, adding that it had used Ford’s cash to expand a journalism manual that was distributed to heaps of active academics and hounds.

The media said it was lately a Ford Foundation Grant to conduct studies and publish articles on impunity, corruption, inequality and climate change.

The Kellogg Foundation also responded to the government’s request in a statement issued Friday.

“Long before the Maya Train project, the organizations of the WK The Kellogg Foundation in southern Mexico that try to make communities where they paint communities where all young people can thrive. The foundation grants provide spaces for health, education, food production and language interpretation for access to justice,” he said.

“Also paintings of the protection of human rights, indigenous rights and the protection of the environment. The W.K. The Kellogg Foundation respects the active search for its beneficiaries of these problems, as they decide; however, the base does not direct the use of the funds.”

The foundation said it has been working in Mexico since 1944 and that it now supports more than 100 organizations here including grassroots entities as well as public universities and research centers.

“The foundation’s focus on the Yucatán Peninsula began in 2010 – eight years before public conversations about the Mayan Train project began. All of the work of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Mexico complies with all transparency and other requirements of the governments of both the United States and Mexico. The foundation verifies that all of its grantees do so as well.”

Source: Reform (sp), Animal Polotico (sp)

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