Reports and complaints of oil spilling cases in Rio and Playa Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, opened the works of the Latin American Water Court in Mexico City this Monday, in its third version since two previous in 2000 and 2004 about Central America.

In the inaugural ceremony were presented several motions of concern and sanctions against the Mexico City government who just days before the event decided a sudden change of the place discarding the National Museum of Anthropology alleging that it didn’t have the technical requirements.

Oscar Gonzalez, cultural communications coordinator of the University Autonomous of Mexico UNAM, said that such change of place as the refuse to provide visas for representatives from Ecuador and El Salvador suggest a sabotage of the event because its ethical implications.

Silke Helfrich, representative for the German Heinrich Boll Foundation, said that for her condition as foreign participant she will not make any opinion but she emphasized that there could be a strange undertone about the sudden decision to reject such a place as the National Museum of Anthropology for the event.

Jesus Trapaga, secretary of Constitutional Law and Administration of Jurists Union from Mexico, said that the Court event is an excellent opportunity in favor of socializing Law which should not be a privilege only to be handle by jurists and lawyers.

The Latin American Water Court is one of consciousness to dictate resolutions towards a known truth, he added. ‘’Our Latin America people is thirsty, we are thirsty populations and we want to own our water’’, he said.

Javier Bogantes, director of the Latin American Water Court, said in the inaugural speech that we still don’t have conscience about the rupture made to aquifer environments and the current and future effects of this.

‘’We are turning our rivers into sewers and our oceans are dump of garbage and filth’’, he emphasized.

Bogantes spoke in favor of fighting along with many institutions which create and spread a culture of good use of water and the protection of water natural resources.

This forum’s jury is integrated by Alexandre Camanho de Assis from Brasil; Alfredo J. Valladares from Argentina; Patricia Avila, David Berkin and Oscar Gonzales from Mexico; Philippe Texier from France, Selma Diaz from Cuba and Augusto Willemsen from Guatemala.

During one week of workshops, 13 cases would be presented in this event and there would be resolutions pronounced about them in another week.

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