Two new inscriptions had been inscribed yesterday on the Wall of Honor of the Senate of the Republic: “Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Distinguished Proletarian, Revolutionary and Defender of the Mayab” and “Elvia Carrillo Puerto, Suffragette and Defender of Ladies’s Rights,” throughout a solemn ceremony headed by the president of that chamber, Ana Lilia Rivera, and with the presence of the governor of Yucatán, Joaquín Díaz Mena, and relations of the honored figures.
Senator Rivera harassed that the Carrillo Puerto brothers are two figures who’ve left an “indelible mark” within the struggle for the rights of essentially the most unprotected folks in our nation.
Felipe Carrillo Puerto, known as the “Pink Apostle of the Mayans” as a result of he was all the time immersed within the vindication of his folks, presided over the Socialist Employees Get together, was a member of the Communist Get together and was governor of Yucatán, a place he assumed in February 1922, till 1924 when he was shot.
His authorities, added the president of the Senate, was characterised by fixed enchancment in favor of the working and peasant plenty, in addition to ladies and youngsters. He adhered to “Maderismo” and was additionally a part of the Zapatista ranks. He’s a transcendent, exemplary character, she added, which is why the Congress of the Union permitted declaring 2024 because the “Yr of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Meritorious of the Revolutionary Proletariat and Defender of the Mayab.”
On this regard, the elected governor of Yucatan, Joaquin Diaz Mena, recalled Felipe Carrillo’s efforts to combine the Mayan peoples within the development of a extra simply and equitable nation. His battle towards the landowners of the time, he harassed, reminds us that all through Mexican historical past financial energy has resisted change when preventing for the rights of the poorest.
For her half, Morena senator Verónica Noemí Camino Farjat, promoter of the legends, stated that it’s important to maintain the historic and political legacy of Felipe and Elvia Carrillo Puerto alive, as a result of solely on this method can this mandate be mirrored within the actions of the Fourth Transformation, “with our ideas, phrases and actions.”
Senator Raúl Paz Alonso, one other of the promoters, additionally famous that Elvia Carrillo Puerto was a social fighter who left a legacy so that ladies’s political rights had been acknowledged.
Because of the seed planted by Elvia Carrillo Puerto for girls’s rights, ladies at the moment maintain essential decision-making positions within the authorities, the legislature and shortly within the presidency of the Republic, she harassed, in a full session corridor, which was additionally attended by Senator Mónica Fernández, from Morena and Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín, from the PVEM.
Marcela Fuentes Ortega, a relative of Felipe and Elvia Carrillo Puerto, recalled that “the crimson nun of Mayab” stood out for bringing points resembling ladies’s suffrage, contraception, and blended, secular and equal schooling between the sexes to the nationwide public debate.
Earlier than the complete Senate, the president of the Committee for the Centenary of the Assassination of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Carlos Bojórquez Urzaiz, highlighted the significance of recovering the work of this historic determine, often known as the “Martyr of the Nationwide Proletariat”, as he fought for indigenous folks to realize their financial freedom, for his or her rights to be acknowledged, and for them to turn into a part of the Mexican nation, with out dropping their cultural and linguistic id, their unbiased types of group, their traditions and customs.
He famous that as governor of Yucatan, Carrillo Puerto established the customized of distributing and handing out free textbooks to poor kids in Mayan communities. He additionally promoted a complicated labor legislation that assured the proper to strike with out the necessity for arbitration, in addition to a 40-hour work week, amongst different progressive insurance policies throughout the two years of his administration.
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– 2024-07-27 20:38:30
