• In a meeting of Campesino Organizations with the President of the Republic, CONOC expressed its opposition to the privatization of the ejido and indigenous and campesino territories.

• Enrique Peña Nieto assures that the Mexican government will not promote changes in land tenure.

In the meeting between peasant organizations and EPN, the National Council of Peasant Organizations (CONOC) defends social property and peasant and indigenous territories.

During the meeting of different peasant organizations with the President of the Republic, Enrique Peña Nieto, the National Council of Peasant Organizations (CONOC) -through a speech delivered by Isabel Cruz, President of the Mexican Association of Credit Unions of the Social Sector (AMUCS)- stated that the organizations that make up this space reject the opinions that have been expressed by the government and the private sector encouraging positions in the sense that the Rural Reform that would be promoted by the Government of the Republic would have as a fundamental axis the privatization of the land.

Also, among other points, Isabel Cruz said that one of the deformations in rural policy has been the concentration of subsidies in a few regions of the country and in a small number of producers, which has accentuated inequality and generated regressive support schemes that make government spending inefficient.

In her participation, at that time, the CONOC representative detailed the main proposals for a reactivation of the peasant and indigenous peoples' economy that would result in increased food production, in the fight against climate change and the degradation of land and ecosystems, in the implementation of a financing policy for rural development and in marketing policies that respect peasant and indigenous territories in the face of the voracity of companies and extractive projects that lack all environmental and social safeguards.

After listening to the different interventions of the organizations in attendance, President Enrique Peña Nieto assured that he took note of all the concerns expressed and said that the government of the Republic would not promote any policy to modify the agrarian structure.

It should be noted that the defense of the ejido, indigenous communities and territories is one of the fundamental demands shared by practically all peasant organizations. The President of the Republic instructed the Secretary of Agriculture Enrique Martínez y Martínez and the Secretary of the Interior Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong to implement, together with the peasant organizations, the corresponding dialogue to build consensus towards the reform for the countryside.

At the end of the event, most of the peasant leaders in attendance agreed that the President's announcement that there would be no privatization of social property was one of the basic conditions for a serious and constructive dialogue process.