A Congressman Oaxaca state, one of the states with the largest religious persecution in Mexico, said the state government on 17 March that "enough of religious intolerance in Oaxaca."

The deputy of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), Alejandro Lopez Jarquin, requested the state government to end abuses of authority, arbitrary detention, discrimination and violation of religious freedom against people who profess non-belief or religion Catholic religion or custom.

Along with Hidalgo, Guerrero, Estado de Mexico, Chiapas and Tabasco, Oaxaca is one of the major hot spots of religious intolerance. In December last year, Eliseo Lopez Estrada, Oaxaquense theologian, said that in the Mexican state of Oaxaca "strong dyes predominate our history of intolerance towards minorities that Protestants have had to deal with the traditionalist conservative views (Catholic) ranging in against those who think differently. "

For more conrad between theory and reality, past December 5, Mexico celebrated the 150th anniversary of the promulgation of the Law on Religious Freedom, adopted on December 4, 1860.

RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN CASES OF OAXACA
In the communities of La Palma and James Teotlasco of Ixtlan de Juarez, San Juan Yaa in Villa Alta, and Santa Maria Ayutla Yohueche Mixe, there have been cases of religious intolerance which have not been resolved by state authorities, said the deputy.

For this, Lee proposed that the local Congress an agreement to urge the Chief Executive to accept the recommendations of the Commission on Human Rights were issued following the reported cases of religious intolerance in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca , and that through the General Secretariat of Government and the management of religious affairs are carried out parcels that dictates the recommendation.

SAN ANDRES YAA
Lopez also said that in the Sierra Norte have been acts against religious freedom and that 6 months ago several people were expelled from the community of San Andrés Yaa for professing the evangelical Christians.

The responsibility for what happened said the mayor, Daniel Matthew Marcial, who took over 2 months ago and today's date has not identified any action to solve the expulsion of evangelicals, let alone to end religious persecution has always existed in the town, but has increased in recent weeks.

DEAF EARS HR RECOMMENDATIONS
He also said that they have ignored the above recommendation issued by the Commission for the Defense of Human Rights which details the intolerance that exists in the community, mainly against the brothers Imeldo and Claudio Gabriel Amaya, and recalled that the Mexican government is secular and the customs (Catholic) are not an excuse for such actions.

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