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Article: Sonora's Indian nations reject Mexico's diluted rights bill: Say their fundamental rights are omitted
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- Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
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- June 13, 2001
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Norrell, Brenda
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
06-13-2001
Sonora's Indian nations reject Mexico's diluted rights bill: Say their
fundamental rights are omitted
By Brenda Norrell
TODAY STAFF
HERMOSILLO, Mexico - Mayo arrived in the backs of pickup trucks and Yaqui
arrived in a transit bus, packing a meeting with Sonora's state
congressmen, to reject a watered-down version of an Indigenous human rights
bill passed by the national Congress in Mexico City.
Just as Comandanta Esther led the Zapatistas' address to the Union Congress
in Mexico City, an Indigenous woman Fidelia Suarez, Yaqui, led the voices
of Sonora's traditional leaders as they rejected in their Native languages
the diluted version of ...