Ejidatarios agree to reopen the Mexico-Puebla highway

MEXICO CITY.- After almost 60 hours of blocking the Mexico-Puebla highwaythe government of Puebla agreed with the ejidatarios to reopen the road.

However, they have not opened traffic in both directions.

Only one lane is operating relatively normally on Friday. Despite this, the situation has eased considerably after three days of blockage and hundreds of stranded drivers.

Mexico-Puebla highway partially reopened

Yesterday the transporters reached an agreement with the ejidatarios of Santa Rita Tlahuapan to open one of the lanes of the Mexico-Puebla highway for a period of two hours.

Although the lane was closed again, a new agreement was reached on Thursday night to keep it open permanently.

The high-speed lane of the federal highway was allowed to open on Friday morning, but the farmers’ protest was not removed.

At the moment there is constant traffic on the Mexico-Puebla highway.

The farmers remain blocking part of the lanes at km 70, but the high-speed lane is open in each direction.

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Reports of Infobae They indicate that traffic is fluid, compared to previous days.

Millennium He said this lane will be open to unrestricted traffic, a second lane will have intermittent blockages and a side lane will be completely closed.

The agreement was reached after a meeting between the Ministry of the Interior and the ejidatarios.

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Payment is demanded to lift the blockade on the Mexico-Puebla highway

Jorge Portilla Albathe lawyer for the ejidatarios, said that the Mexico-Puebla highway will be completely cleared when the federal government complies with the payment of compensation.

The inhabitants of Saint Rita Tlahuapan They are demanding payment for their lands expropriated for the construction of the Mexico-Puebla highway, which they have been owed for six decades.

In an interview for Millenniumdenied that the farmers had received any payment.

🪙📍 There is no appraisal of lands that were expropriated from farmers to build the Mexico-Puebla highway and they want to pay them up to four pesos per square meter, denounced Jorge Portilla Alba, legal advisor to the protesters pic.twitter.com/Wg4Ddbnntk

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He also responded to the president’s statements Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in this week’s morning press conferences about wanting to “make money” from the conflict.

They know me well in Santa Rita Tlahuapan, #Pueblarather than to the lawyer Jorge Portilla Alba who heads the blockades on the Mexico-Puebla highway. “I hope they accept the conditions that are fair, and also that they stay calm, they will not be repressed, we are not authoritarian, but we are not going to… pic.twitter.com/3SJ8r99BLN

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The lawyer stressed that his objective is conciliation, despite the fact that the interest has been unilateral, in reference to the position of AMLO.

He stressed that they are only seeking to obtain payment from those affected.

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