Urban Development in San Cristóbal de las Casas

This Statement of Facts is dedicated to the last two situations that were denounced and correspond with all previous efforts in the essence of the problems and that the omissions, manipulations and falsification of all levels of environmental authority continues without shame or remorse for the damage it has caused to the environment nor to the Indigenous communities in the region where the proble. [...] I went directly, by bus, to Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capitol of Chiapas, and walked from the bus stop to the offices of the Procuduria Ambiental in the Torre Chiapas where I was told, “this isn’t our problem, we are administrative nothing more.” But, they helped me write the complaint and then I literally walked for three hours on the side of the road to the offices of PROFEPA where I filed the new c. [...] I have especially emphasized the compost issue and have suggested we do the same thing in San Cristobal and donate the compost to anyone who can use it for an urban garden and the majority would be donated to the rural agricultural communities of Indigenous people that make up 30% of the population in the county and provide most of the food consumed in San Cristobal. [...] I also wish to appeal to the Commision to help organize sustainable practices in the Indigenous communities in the same zone that are also being affected by the invasion of the unsustainable housing developments as the existence of them will divert funding and development projects away from the original communities to the benefit of the new unregulated and illegal new housing developments. [...] for example, Parachicos from Chiapa de Corzo in the middle of the Sumidero Canyon in the “island of garbage” that forms there all the time, In San Cristobal it could be with actors from San Juan Chamula dressed as “max” or Monkeys which is their traditional costume and recognized throughout the state, in the middle of the wetlands with the view of the disastrous sand and cravel mine, SalsiPuedes i.