Not speaking Spanish has become a 'crime' for Indians

The lack of structure and understanding of the Spanish language is the biggest obstacle for indigenous people in Mexico . What has cost them at least 502 indigenous 8000 have been unjustly imprisoned in 2012 , not knowing defend before a public prosecutor , according to the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples ( CDI ) .

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" Because I had a translator at the time and nothing engaged to say 'yes ' or 'no' at the time and are judged because they gave his statement and said yes , they take ," said Mayorga Nubia , owner of CDI CNN.

With the Release of Prisoners program , the CDI has achieved so far release year nearly a thousand Indians , aged between 18 and 40 years , illiterate or only a primary education , unjustly accused and could not defend themselves let alone Spanish . Others out by not having the money to bail " from 5000 and 12 thousand dollars ," said the official.

Data of the National Social Policy Evaluation ( Coneval ) notes that there are currently 5 million Mexico 100 000 Indians in poverty , of those 2 million 500 thousand are in extreme poverty.

The program has national coverage through the administrative units of the Commission in the states.

In 2013 , the program had a budget of 26.8 million dollars, for the payment of bail, grant 2000 462 consultants , conduct surveys and hire 26 to 259 performers .

There is a type of crime for which indigenous people are dams with the highest incidence in particular. The charges are both common law crimes and the federal , for crimes against life and physical integrity , property crimes , against health or sexual assault issues , details Mayorga.

This was the case of indigenous Nahua of Puebla José Ramón Aniceto Gomez and Pascual Agustin Cruz , who in 2012 was sentenced to six years in prison for stealing a van, which could not defend themselves for not speaking Spanish .

After 10 months in prison , the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation granted an injunction brought them out of prison and in which it was recognized that there were violations of due process because it did not have translators .

Oaxaca , Chiapas and Guerrero with , is one of the states in which the CDI has more indigenous cases unjustly imprisoned .

The CDI Holder said ideally in Prosecutors had interpreters but it does not. " There are some cases where it does its work who have to make the function that corresponds , in this case in the public ministries . It's easy to put them in jail , that injustice can not give, " Mayorga said .

An emblematic case is that of Alberto Patishtán teacher , who was arrested in 2000 for allegedly engaging in an ambush that killed seven police in Chiapas . International organizations such as Amnesty International ( AI ) have lamented the "serious irregularities" in his opinion .

On September 13th of Chiapas court rejected an appeal by the defense of professor of ethnic Tzotzil thus exhausted their options within the Mexican justice system .

" It is a matter of grave concern that the justice system makes the decision to ignore the serious irregularities against Alberto Patishtán process and keep the denial of the right to a fair trial ," explained AI in a statement after the judge's decision .

In 2010 the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation ordered released by inconsistencies in the process to three indigenous women Jacinta Francisco , Alberta Alcántara and Teresa González , after nearly four years in prison.