2024-06-07 19:41:50
The Institute of the Nationwide Housing Fund for Staff (Infonavit) rejected any type of violence that compromises the bodily, ethical or psychological integrity of individuals, in addition to injury to materials property, and introduced that it’s going to current the corresponding complaints after the assault on union places of work within the Benito Juárez Mayor’s Workplace.
This afternoon, LGBTI activists vandalized the headquarters of the Institute’s union, SNTInfonavithe’s protesting as a result of union employees tore a satisfaction flag from the constructing on Tuesday.
The Institute assured that this Wednesday numerous teams of the LGBTI+ neighborhood gathered peacefully in entrance of the Infonavit places of work in Barranca del Muerto 280.
Protesters expressed their discontent over the current destruction of the LGBTI+ satisfaction flag by the Nationwide Union of Infonavit Staff (SNTInfonavit).
“After that, a gaggle of individuals went to the services of the Nationwide Union of Infonavit Staff (SNTInfonavit), positioned at Minerva 30, inflicting materials injury,” mentioned the establishment’s Administration.
He said that Infonavit, as a social safety establishment, is guided by constructive dialogue between completely different actors.
“The Institute stands in solidarity with the SNTInfonavit to current the corresponding complaints for what occurred and always, will take the required actions to safeguard the integrity of its collaborators,” he warned.
SNTInfonavit places of work vandalized
LGBT activists vandalized this Wednesday places of work of the union of the Institute of the Nationwide Housing Fund for Staff (Infonavit), within the Benito Juárez mayor’s workplace of Mexico Metropolis, to protest as a result of employees eliminated a homosexual satisfaction flag from the central places of work.
LGBTI activists gathered on the headquarters of the group, broke home windows, painted graffiti, burned furnishings and eliminated a flag from its flagpole to lift one of many neighborhood’s flags.
The satisfaction flag, a logo of the struggle for LGBTI rights, was violently eliminated, producing an instantaneous response from the neighborhood and its allies.
On Tuesday, Carlos Martínez, normal director of Infonavit, accused on his social networks that the Establishment’s union chief known as on a few of his members to interrupt with the flags that “we put up each June throughout satisfaction month.”
Rafael Riva, chief of the Nationwide Union of Infonavit Staff (SNTI), ordered his members to destroy the flag positioned yearly on the event of LGBTI satisfaction month. “Don’t inform me that it’s today, it’s the day of the opposite, it’s the day of the hereafter. This (the constructing) identifies us all,” declared Riva by a megaphone, justifying his determination.
“Immediately I’ve been a witness and sufferer of an act of barbarism, hatred, homophobia and discrimination,” wrote Martínez, who printed a video wherein employees of the company are seen tearing an LGBT flag that hung within the constructing,” lamented Martínez, who confirmed that he proudly belonged to the neighborhood.
“After 5 years, it’s the first time he has reached this level. Just a few days in the past, on Might 17, throughout the framework of the day in opposition to discrimination in opposition to the LGBT inhabitants, he spoke of the satisfaction of being homosexual and with the ability to direct an establishment comparable to Infonavit, and from right here contribute to the enlargement of rights and promote inclusion in all its aspects”.
This Wednesday, dozens of protesters introduced needles, threads and staples to restore the flag on the authorities constructing in Mexico Metropolis.
“No to homophobia, no to homophobia!” chanted the LGBTI teams as they superior in direction of the Infonavit constructing.
The act of hate not solely affected the LGBTI neighborhood, but additionally mobilized workers of the company, who joined the demonstration to indicate their rejection.
Repudiation
The reply was speedy. LGBTI organizations, the Authorities of Mexico and the Workplace in Mexico of the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-DH) expressed their repudiation. “We condemn the acts of intolerance, hatred and discrimination dedicated within the Infonavit services in CDMX. Inclusion and respect for range, human rights and human dignity should prevail,” said the UN-DH on the social community X.
Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, spokesman for the Presidency of Mexico, additionally condemned the motion: “Yesterday, union leaders attacked the LGBTTTIQA+ flag positioned within the Infonavit services. We’re a plural and various nation the place love has no gender and respect prevails,” he wrote on his social networks.
Regardless of the demonstration and widespread rejection, union chief Rafael Riva defended his actions in a public letter, arguing that “the façade of the constructing is the property of Infonavit and it’s not justified to make use of it for promoting functions, having positioned banners in commemoration of LGBTTTIQ+ satisfaction.”
2024-06-07 19:41:50