-They are part of public policies designed to meet the priority needs of native communities
ZOQUITLAN, Pue. – The State Government, through the Poblano Institute of Indigenous Peoples (IPPI), in coordination with the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI) and municipal authorities; presented the “Plans for the Comprehensive Well-being of the Nahua and Mazateco People of Sierra Negra” (PLABIM), with the objective of meeting priority needs and thus reversing the rates of lag in the area.
The construction process of the PLABIM consisted of participatory workshops with community representatives, under a gender parity perspective with 207 communities from the municipalities of Zoquitlán, San Sebastián Tlacotepec, Eloxochitlán, Coxcatlán, San Antonio Cañada and Vicente Guerrero.
In the presentation, both towns shared in plenary the activities carried out over six months; In the same way, they expressed to the officials the needs they have in terms of social infrastructure, women and youth, health, traditional medicine, education, economy and productive systems.
With these actions, the state government walks together with the indigenous peoples, with respect to the decisions of how to live, the territory and the language.
Present at said presentation were representatives of the Ministries of the Interior, Planning and Finance, Health, Culture, Environment, Labor and Education, as well as the Council of Science and Technology of the State of Puebla (CONCYTEP) and the municipal presidents of Coxcatlán, Camerino Montalvo Montiel; San Sebastian Tlacotepec, Raymundo Atanacio Arciga; Vicente Guerrero, Francisco Javier Hernández Morales and, Zoquitlán, Virgilio Efraín Cortés Jiménez.
