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.
López Obrador made the allegation at his morning news conference Friday, where his communications coordinator provided more details about 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 covid-19 deaths.
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.
“Mr. President, in response to the comments and opinions you expressed today, this working team would like to inform you that after 30 years walking with the Mayan people of the Yucatán Peninsula, WE HAVE OTHER INFORMATION,” the human rights group said.
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 also regret that the president uses his morning press conferences to make accusations without carrying out research beforehand. Those of us who produce Animal Político demand that he clarify this information that damages the journalistic work we’ve been doing for 10 years with the sole objective of serving our readers,” he wrote.
The news said in a report released Friday that he had won the investment of W.K. Kellogg Foundation to carry out a 2017-2018 assignment on racism and inequality, which it accepted from the Ford Foundation between 2016 and 2020.
Animal Político said it signed an agreement with the Ford Foundation to deliver workshops and provide training for journalists working in several states, adding that it used Ford money to develop a journalism manual that has been distributed to hundreds of students and active journalists.
The media said lately it was 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. 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 base said it had been operating in Mexico since 1944 and now supported more than a hundred organizations here, adding local entities as well as public universities and study 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: Reforma (sp), Animal Político (sp)
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