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More than Monarchs Documenting Local Stories in the Disappearing Monarch Forests of Mexico Feb 12, 2007
Ejido Nicolas Romero Municipality of Zitácuaro C. Felipe Calderon, President of the Mexican Republic The letter writer, of this same place, as Ejidatario. 1. Manifest the following, I wish to request in the most respectable manner that there be an investigation in this area. Before 2000 there have been corrupt authorities that do not let the town develop because they are diverting resources that arrive from the government agencies and they are always imposing on people as the authorities projects against the will of those who want to protect the forest. This place is nearly gone because of illegal logging and bird hunters, moss collectors, and our water is drying and there are water diversions for clandestine fisheries and conflicts between the ejido and the indigenous community that since 1970 these people have left our natural resources to be lost and what still remains will be finished and we will go through times of great necessity given that the mountain of Cacique and the mountain of Pelon hold the water and these waters maintain various towns. 2. I, as ejidatario, am concerned because every day that passes I see with sadness all the disaster and that if this is not stopped soon we will feel great consequences and regret. 3. It is necessary that these people be investigated where they live given that they have weapons and that because of this people are afraid to speak because they are threatened and they send to kill those people who defend themselves. Not being any other thing to discuss I give this as terminated and I take advantage of this occasion to send my best regards, hoping that there may be a favorable response.
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