"Yucatan calls for the rights of its indigenous people to be respected", 15 September 2021

...Through the report on the mega pig farms in Yucatán, activists call to respect the rights of the people who live in indigenous towns and also documented the consultation process as a process that should be applied by the State...

The documentation of this process includes the experience of what took place in July in the Mayan communities of Kinchil, San Fernando (Maxcanú) and Celestún.

The people of these areas convened and participated in a self-consultation to discuss and decide on the presence and continuity of pork companies working in the area.

The consultations were carried out by collectives belonging to U Yutzil Kaj in Maxcanú; the Colectivo Maya del Poniente Chik’in Ja’ in Kinchil and the Consejo Maya del Poniente Chik’in Ja’ in Celestún...

With this exercise, the inhabitants of these indigenous zones seek to set an example of consultation that the State should apply when developing a project...

The documentation of the consultation was also sent to the United Nations (UN) and to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Freedom of Expression.