They tried to insert their proposal into the Regulation so that what would not otherwise be validated would not be validated, given its unilateral and biased origin, would be validated. Kind of like sneaking it under the door, but the community kicked them back. By 2019 local groups and grassroots organizations were defending the territory from several fronts: against PROTUR (promoted by Geoalternativa, SEMA and State Tourism), against a new proposal with an intersecretarial declaration scheme for Critical Habitat in the Bacalar Lagoon (with a new NGO in the area: SELBA, AC and former CONANP members), Ramsar continued to be promoted (by the people of IEUNAM and ECOSUR), it continued to try to implement a protected natural area without having arguments (SEMA and local and regional ENGOs), manipulating public opinion and creating myths along the way to validate its invalidable proposals, insisting that such requests came from the community but it was the communities that were fighting against these proposals. And then came the triad proposal to modify Rule 23 of the APIQROO Regulations.
ECOSUR and IEUNAM, in APIQROO If there was the doubt of how the triad acts to validate each other, there is the document that was sent to the APIQROO Operations Committee where precisely the importance of leaving the conservation areas derived from the investigations of Luisa Falcón and AlfredoYañez is emphasized, without specifying what these investigations have been, simply and simply placing a map made freehand with Google Earth and providing arguments that have been repeating a and again as part of your strategies to achieve your goals. They addressed a letter to the director of APIQROO in order to try to influence the design of the instrument. It mentioned Luisa Falcón (IEUNAM) and Alfredo Yañez of ECOSUR, whose opinions were considered to have sufficient authority to influence and change the guidelines of the APIQROO instrument without more evidence than their university degree, through categorical statements that were opinions taken by facts.
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