MEXICO CITY, Dec 11 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, signed a decree for publishing a constitutional reform granting full rights to indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples and communities in more than 50 indigenous languages.
Against the backdrop of Human Rights Day, the president signed an additional document with the purpose of creating a presidential commission to monitor the due implementation of such plans.
During the Sheimbaun’s regular press conference, the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, recalled that for decades Mexicans lived in a country where exclusion, discrimination, racism, classism and machismo were normalized.
Starting in 2018, following the inauguration of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the nation began to experience a transformation that made a priority of the citizens’ well-being and vindicated their rights, the head of state stressed.
She highlighted that human rights are respected by the authorities, there is no repression and constitutional guarantees are protected.
The population exercises its right to health, education, culture and access to justice, said the official, emphasizing that the Magna Carta recognizes indigenous peoples and communities as subjects of public law and speaks of substantive equality between men and women. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA
