PBI-Mexico accompanies Peoples Front in Defence of Land and Water at meeting with Municipal President about landfill
PBI-Mexico has posted on Facebook:
“Today, Friday, January 10, PBI accompanies the People’s Front in Defence of Land and Water (FPDTA-MPT) to a dialogue with municipal authorities and the municipal presidency of San Pedro Cholula in the context of their struggle against the intermunicipal landfill. The project that, according to the inhabitants and some studies, has contaminated the aquifers that supply the original [Indigenous] towns of the Cholulteca region.
The meeting that had been scheduled for this morning was held after a peaceful protest by the affected communities whose purpose was the attendance of the Municipal President.
PBI will continue to observe the process and provide international accompaniment of the People’s Front of Morelos Puebla Tlaxcala.”
El Sol de Puebla reports:
“With samples of black and smelly water, product of the leachate that continues to be generated by the landfill in the Cholula region, the group of activists who managed to have it closed last year demonstrated in front of the municipal presidency of San Pedro. They demanded that the city council, headed by Tonantzin Fernández, issue an agreement of the Cabildo to prevent the opening of a new one.
At least 20 members of the Union of Peoples and Fractionations Against the Garbage Dump and in Defense of Water went to a working table with the city council, which began an hour late and after the closure of 4 Poniente Street, since the activists demanded the personal attention of the mayor and agreed to dialogue until her arrival.
Activist Miguel López Vera explained that although the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa) definitively closed the landfill last August, they are concerned that the state government has announced the creation of a Waste Transformation Center in that region, to replace the landfill.
He argued that this is how the problem began, since at the time the former governor, Rafael Moreno Valle announced a dry sanitary landfill for the area, where waste would be recycled and processed; however, in the end the site was exceeded in operating capacity, its useful life ended early and it became a garbage dump that caused pollution.”
There were also news reports: They ask that the Calpan-Cholula landfill not be reactivated; Activists against the reopening of the landfill demonstrate in San Pedro Cholula; and Open Town Hall Session Agreed Between San Pedro Cholula City Council and Activists.
PBI-Mexico has accompanied the Peoples’ Front since early 2020. In August 2022, that accompaniment was extended for another three years.
Previous articles:
PBI-Mexico accompanies communities at protest in Mexico City demanding closure of Cholula garbage dump (PBI-Canada, June 12, 2024)
PBI-Mexico accompanies Peoples’ Front in Defence of Land and Water at march against San Pedro Cholula landfill (PBI-Canada, April 26, 2024)
PBI-Mexico accompanies Peoples’ Front in Defence of Land and Water at highway blockade at Cholula garbage dump (March 22, 2024)
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