SIERRA REGION, Dgo. (OEM).- Residents of the ejido of Guarizamey, a town near the Tayoltita mining complex, in the municipality of San Dimas, in the state of Durango, demonstrated against the Canadian company First Majestic Silver Corp, which relied on documentation It deprives them of water for human consumption and also prevents them from building a school in the community of Santa Rita, according to the plaintiffs.

Through social networks, residents have denounced that the ejidatarios led by their leaders demand the immediate intervention of Governor Esteban Villegas and the President of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the face of what they consider an outrage of the new company manager. Miguel de la Madrid, who refuses to recognize their rights as true owners of the ejido land.

“How is it possible that a foreign company comes to take our land away from us, when we have seen that foreigners own our land, that is why more than 70 ejidatarios have been here with their children, with their wives for Sunday and the manager that he refuses to dialogue, we have been owed money for the damage for a long time, the man does nothing to dialogue with us, he contaminated land for us, the water we had to ‘an aquifer in the city was withdrawn for industrial use, being that it was for the use of the population’, denounced Laura Morones, treasurer of the board of directors of Ejido.

They also pointed out that Sarahí, a teacher at the “María Isabel Estrada Marín” elementary school, located in the community of Balderrama better known as Santa Rita, said that the mining company was putting obstacles in the way of continuing the construction of the school on earth. that the same ejido donated it.

The ejidatarios, who with documents in hand demonstrated to state police and the army that they were the real owners of the land and the water concession title, stressed that they would go as far as the last consequences to defend their right to water for human consumption and the repair of environmental damage by the Canadian company.

A video has begun circulating on social media showing the protest by the ejidatarios, in which the public prosecutor’s agent is also seen accompanied by law enforcement as they chat with local residents.