Guelaguetza Magisterial y Common, an area for reflection and protest

Oaxaca, Oax. The Guelaguetza Magisterial y Common is celebrating its seventeenth anniversary, a time through which it has grow to be a real folks’s celebration, an area for reflection, protest and calls for from the federal government in energy, an area by and for the folks, which anybody can enter with out having to pay a ticket, a celebration that rejects the state authorities’s commercialism for the best celebration of the folks of Oaxaca, stated Yenny Pérez Martínez, Basic Secretary of Part 22 of the Nationwide Coordinator of Training Staff (CNTE).

Earlier than lots of of attendees, each native and nationwide and overseas vacationers, who gathered on the stadium of the Technological Institute of Oaxaca (ITO), the 15 taking part delegations had been launched one after the other, amid cheers and shouts of assist. The welcome to the venue was given by Pérez Martínez in his native language, Ayuuk, who after blessing the stage with mezcal, recalled that this Guelaguetza arose from protest.

Its origins date again to 2006 and the repression that the academics and the folks of Oaxaca suffered by the hands of former Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (2004 – 2006). Because of this this can be a area for protest, but in addition for the protection of human rights, labor rights, the protection of pure assets, tradition and indigenous languages.

He added that the academics’ wrestle nonetheless has a number of pending points, equivalent to the whole repeal of the tutorial reform imposed by Enrique Peña Nieto and that he is not going to again down, however along with this, there are additionally problems with utmost significance such because the punishment of these liable for the failed eviction of Asunción Nochixtlán that left 6 civilians killed by police bullets.

He additionally stated that the Magisterial and Common Guelaguetza is a real folks’s pageant, through which brotherhood and sharing of the tradition of the native peoples with the lots of of attendees is sought, in contrast to the official Guelaguetza headed by the governor, Salomón Jara, through which commercialism is prioritized over traditions.

And he insisted that each one those that want to can entry this area with out having to pay a ticket, whereas within the official Guelaguetza, packing containers A and B are reserved for many who will pay a ticket and for the political class, which is why he affirmed that within the ITO stadium there’s a true “sharing”, since everybody collaborates to have the ability to perform this festivity.