San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chis.— Tzotzil indigenous people from the Yalentay community (San Joaquín), municipality of Zinacantán, yesterday burned the free textbooks that would be used for the school year that began last week, hours after the volumes they had reached the town.
Due to the burning of the books, the Chiapas Prosecutor’s Office ordered a record of attention as part of the investigations that were opened.
The Tzotzils of Yalentay, a community that is located on the free highway that connects San Cristóbal de las Casas and Tuxtla, met at the Primero de Mayo Elementary School, and on the basketball court they piled up the boxes of books to spray gasoline on them and set them on fire .
The children who study at the campus, accompanied by their parents, formed around the field to observe the moment in which the books were burned.
The indigenous people celebrated when the boxes of the specimens burned and shouted words in their language when the fire gained strength.
This is the second community in Chiapas to burn free textbooks, after on August 20, Tzotzils from the San Antonio del Monte community set fire to several boxes of books.
The cremation of the texts occurred at the Benito Juárez Elementary School, in the community of the municipality of San Cristóbal de las Casas, where the majority of the inhabitants are members of evangelical churches, and sympathizers of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
In Yalentay there is a presence of Catholic and Evangelical churches, but the Tzotzils assured that they proceeded to burn the books for having content that affects children.
Specifically, they considered that the books seek to “teach children communism.”
The Indigenous Justice Prosecutor’s Office opened a record of attention against whoever is responsible for “the possible commission of criminal acts.”
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2023-09-01 08:40:04
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