MEXICO CITY, DF - In a private telephone conversation whose
audio was uploaded to YouTube, the president of the National Electoral
Institute (INE), Lorenzo Córdova Vianello, is overheard to ridicule in racist tones the
representatives of the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico. President of the INE had recently conducted a
session in consultation with Indigenous Peoples regarding the call for the
creation of a specific sixth constituency within the national electoral proceedings
to allow the Indigenous Peoples to nominate candidates outside of the party
structures of the current system.
In the telephone conversation Cordova referred to the consultation on the 23rd of the month. He had called the executive secretary of the electoral body, Edmundo Jacobo, to mock one of the leaders of Original Nations, Hipólito Arriaga Pot from the Otomi Nation.
In translation the voice of Cordova is heard to say: "There was one of them, I am not kidding, I will not lie, I'll tell you how this bastard spoke," says Cordova, and then begins to mimic with a deep, mocking voice: "I head Great Chichimeca Nation, come Guanajuato. I say here for deputies, Us not allow your elections. " Cordova then bursts out laughing.
Cordova said that the workshops with the indigenous constituencies are more "dramatic" than the meetings he held with the parents of the 43 normalistas from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, adding that "we should write an INE version of the Martian Chronicles", referring to the works of science fiction of author Ray Bradbury.
"It is too much, we will either end up in stitches
laughing or having to see the psychiatrist, you bastard," he adds.
Moreover, the INE did not deny the authenticity of the tape.
Just today the National Electoral Institute issued a statement in which they
announced that a complaint has been filed with the Attorney General (PGR) for
"illegal interception of private telephone conversations".
The INE revealed that the other party in the conversation
with Cordova, whose voice was distorted during audio editing, was Jacobo
Molina, Secretary General of INE.
"The INE is outraged by such practices and calls on the
competent authorities to further investigation," he said in his
newsletter.
Even Cordova regretted that the dissemination of such
discussion occurs in a complicated context that does not benefit the electoral
institutions within weeks of the election.
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Indigenous Peoples Forum on the Impact of the Doctrine of Discovery
MEXICO
“As Indigenous Peoples we have been marginalized and
excluded. They have called us ignorant savages without culture. They have
imposed ideas, languages and religions and this is why I believe it is
important that we elaborate these issues and we shall make our voice be heard.
That our ideas be known and that we will not be diminished.”
Message to the O'otham Nations
Virginia Flores Flores, O'dam
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