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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador lamented the sale of girls in Guerrero communities and asked not to stigmatize the indigenous communities of the country.

He commented that these facts "occur unfortunately, in all social classes".

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During his morning conference, and after an express question, AMLO said that "this idea that these things happen in indigenous communities and that acts of barbarism should not prevail".

The president continued to say that this idea "does not correspond to reality" and that "it is quite class and racist.It is not a generalized issue ".

According to the president in the indigenous peoples of Mexico there is a great reserve of cultural, moral and spiritual values.

He assured that on this, what is done is to strengthen the values that are, "that the fundamental thing is not material".

López Obrador said that these situations occur "because of the values that are lost, due to social decomposition, the predominance of money, material, family disintegration and abandonment to children".

According to their statements, "social decomposition and disintegration of families occurs above", that is, "it is less in indigenous peoples than in non -indigenous peoples".

He explained that it is "very unfortunate" that these events occur and "that it cannot be allowed, and that there should be no abuse, outrage, violations, against women".

In addition, he clarified that every time there is a complaint, cases are investigated.

Girls trade

"We are not animals (...) Animals are those that are sold," says this 23 -year -old Mixteca indigenous - it is released at 14- of the Juquila Yuvinani community, in the municipality of Metlatónoc, among the poorest in Mexico.

In this southern community, nestled between mountains, some families try.

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The skills charged by the parents of the brides, who only accept husbands from this same region, range between 39,000 and 359,000 pesos, according to inhabitants of the area consulted by AFP.

The newspaper Reforma reports that in the Guerrero mountain, they pay for girls from 9 years, in addition to money, with cattle or beer, a practice that has been attributed to the "uses and customs" of communities.

Faced with this situation, “girls remain in absolute vulnerability.Their new family enslaves them with domestic and agricultural tasks "and sometimes" the in -laws sexually abuse them, "says Abel Barrera, anthropologist and leader of the NGO Tlachinollan.

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Due to the "growing precariousness" of these peoples, he adds, "the indigenous ancestral rituality of the maiden delivery by their first menstruation has been lost and now the girls are commercialized".

Of the almost 2.500 Mexican municipalities, about 620 are indigenous and 420 of them are governed by traditional uses and customs recognized by the Constitution.

In Metlatónoc, 19.000 inhabitants, 94.3% lack basic services in their homes, and 58.7% have difficulty feeding, according to the National Statistics Institute, INEGI.

With AFP information.