Chihuahua deputies will go to international tribunals for water conflict

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A week after the takeover of the La Boquilla dam , Chihuahua deputies from different political forces announced that they will go to international tribunals for Mexico and the United States to begin with the revision of the Water Treaty to seek to guarantee the supply of water to producers of the state. Local legislators signed a manifesto, with which they support the defense of water for producers. The document also indicates that the demand for justice for Jessica will not be reversed after she died during a confrontation between peasants with the National Guard. Legislators demanded that the National Guard remove its elements from the state's dams.

They said, nothing will stop us from defending the water of Chihuahua, because we will go to international tribunals for a thorough review of the 1944 International Water Treaty between the United States and Mexico.

Among the signatories are the president of Congress, Blanca Gámez, and coordinators Fernando Álvarez, from the PAN; Miguel Colunga de Morena; Rosy Gaytán from the PRI, René Frías from PANAL, Rubén Aguilar from the PT, Misael Máynez from the Social Encounter, Rocío Sarmiento from the Citizen Movement and Alejandro Gloria del Verde. The congressmen urged President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the Welfare delegate, Juan Carlos Loera, to respond to the calls of producers in the central-south region. During the weekend the councilors of Delicias and Chihuahua, Eliseo Compeán Fernández and María Eugenia Campos , arrived at the dam to give support to the producers. The mayors made a tour of the dam facilities and provided toilet paper, water, blankets, pillows, food, among other items, which were delivered to the producers who guard the dam facilities.

The mayor Eliseo Compeán said he will stay up all night accompanying the producers in the La Boquilla facilities, while the municipal president of Chihuahua said that he will return this Sunday to spend the night in La Boquilla. The mayor assured that she maintains contact with three day laborers who were detained by the National Guard for allegedly carrying tear gas.

He anticipated that they will be presented on September 16 at an initial hearing, for which he gives them legal advice. Meanwhile, State Police agents tried to evict the protesters who maintain a blockade on the roads of Consuelo Station during the early hours of this Sunday. The villagers were alerted and they rang the bells in order to avoid being withdrawn for the third time, since they took that point 20 days ago. "\

Farmer Saúl García said, they were not able to remove us because all the people gathered, about 40 patrols arrived but we were able to defend the right of our waters.