<media 7370>Entrevista 24</media>

In August 2010, PBI accompanied the Flor y Canto Centre for Indigenous Rights (Centro de Derechos Indígenas Flor y Canto, A.C.) and the Coordination of the United Peoples for the Defence of the Water (Coordinadora de Pueblos Unidos por la Defensa del Agua) in their Civil Observation Mission “Water is life, let's defend its existence” (Misión Civil de Observación “El agua es vida, defendamos su existencia”). PBI subsequently interviewed Yanet Ambrosio Ambrosio, Legal Coordinator, and Cinthia Méndez Mota, Operative Team Coordinator, of Flor y Canto.

How does Flor y Canto work with the Coordination of the United Peoples for the Defence of Water?

Yanet Ambrosio Ambrosio: The campesino communities organised themselves in 2005, and asked the Flor y Canto Centre for Indigenous Rights for supervision in regards to the demand by the National Water Commission (Comisión Nacional de Agua, CONAGUA) that they pay for excess water... <media 7370>Download the complete interview</media>