Indigenous peoples of Tecámac protested at the inauguration of AIFA

The twelve original peoples of Tecámac spoke out on the Felipe Angeles Airport (AIFA) after its inauguration this Monday, March 21. In a statement released through their social media platform, they reported that the complex began its work by missing its own Environmental Impact Manifestation (MIA).

Activists, inhabitants and organizations from the north of the Basin of Mexico and the south of the Mezquital Valley, have already positioned themselves before this problem, such was the case on March 17 at the Autonomous University of Mexico City, Cuautepec campus, as the document recalls.

They pointed out, in the framework of the inauguration ceremony of AIFA, that their “triumphalist spirits” contradict the commitment of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), not to make the water imbalance suffered by the Cuautitlán-Pachuca aquifer more serious and to steal water from the surrounding villages, through the construction of an aqueduct.

This aqueduct, which the president promised and the indigenous peoples highlight, would supposedly be responsible for re-importing water from the Valle del Mezquital aquifer, starting at the height of the Tula refinery and emptying part inside the airport complex.

However, the complainants say that to date, not only is there not a project proposed before the National Water Commission (CONAGUA), but also the infrastructure of some aqueduct “So where are they going to take water from?” , they questioned.

They demanded that their complaints about the poor water quality in the Mezquital Valley have been ignored and that instead the authorities have concentrated on the drilling of 700-meter-deep wells in the vicinity of the municipalities of Zumpango, Tequixquiac, Apaxco, Hueypoxtla and Tecámac to supply water to the new air terminal, something that the peoples were able to partially prevent.

They also added that since December 2021, the Tecalco-Chiconautla hill has been the epicenter of what could well be considered “ecocide” in order to consolidate the infrastructure of AIFA and other works, which are considered in the statement as a continuation of the extinct project of the New Mexico City Airport (NAICM).

This Monday, the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) preceded the inauguration of AIFA, a project that has been criticized for being the replacement of NAIM. morning conference the head of the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), María Luisa Albores, announced the decree by which Lake Texcoco was declared a natural area protected.

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