More than Monarchs
Documenting Local Stories in the Disappearing Monarch Forests of Mexico
Nov 4, 2003
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To:
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Governor of Michoacán
MBBR-CONANP
Municipality of Zitácuaro |
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From:
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IIdilberto Gonzáles Claudio
Agrarian Community
Crescencio Morales
Michoacan State |
Re:
(Specific Request)
(TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH)
Lázaro Cárdenas Batel
Governor for the State of Michoacan
Palacio de Gobierno
Primer Patio-Planta Alta
Centro
58000 Morelia, Michoacan
Dear Governor,
The Crescencio Morales indigenous community from Zitacuaro, Michoacan kindly requests your valuable collaboration to prevent a confrontation between a group of 20 people, landowners and sons from Lomas de Aparicio, la Cumbre, Lindero, and Macho de Agua, they have intentions of destroying the little forest left in La Cañada. This is why we have requested State and Federal Police support in places where trees are being illegally cut, and prevent confrontation between woodcutters and commoners. As I have mentioned, no authority has provided support, they all say we must request this to you so that you give instructions to the corresponding authority. Besides, no one can act without orders from their superiors.
Mr. Governor, we are in time to prevent a massacre for defending a natural resource with our own lives. Our community has 6,000 men willing to protect with their own lives the natural resource. And that the sawmills located within our community and that work only with wood from illegal sources are closed, PROFEPA is already aware of this.
Thank you for your time and favorable response to our petition.
Sincerely,
Idilberto González Claudio
Common Property President Crescencio Morales
cc Biol. Marco A. Bernal Hernández, Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve Director
cc Lourdes Jiménez Coronel, City Mayor, Zitacuaro, Michoacan.
Signed and received on Nov. 5, 2003.
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