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| April 2026
Declaration with the Wixarika Regional Council on the mining concessions that remain active in Wirikuta despite recent judicial victories that led to the cancelation of 44 concessions. The declaration analyzes the judicial advances, considers the pending actions to effectively protect the sacred territory, and exposes the demands that include the respect for sustainable development for the small farmer communities that live in the region.
| April 2026
Statement issued by the Wixarika Union of Ceremonial Centers of Jalisco, Durango and Nayarit that recognizes the legal victory that cancels 44 mining concessions in the sacred place of Wirikuta, but that leaves 23 concessions active despite international and national agreements.
| March 2026
Diego Galeana Jiménez, presiding judge of the Fourth District Court of San Luis Potosí, granted a writ of *amparo* (constitutional protection) to the Wixárika people, ordering the nullification of 44 mining concession titles located within the Wirikuta protected natural area and sacred site—concessions that had been issued during the six-year presidential term of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (2006–2012).
| March 2026
Following the toppling of the "Monument of the Deer" (*Monumento del Venado*), the Municipal President of Bolaños, Trino Sandoval González, convened Wixárika and *mestizo* leaders for a dialogue session to address the conflict and help contain the climate of social tension currently prevailing in the municipality.
| March 2026
Statement presented by the Commission for Self-Determination and Autonomy of Tuxpan and San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán, Mezquitic, and Bolaños, Jalisco, regarding the events of recent days—specifically the blockade—as well as their concerns and the conditions for entering into the dialogue convened by the municipal government following the conflict concerning changes to the system of governance within the Municipality of Bolaños.
| March 2026
After 15 years of litigation, the Fourth District Court in the state ruled to grant *amparo* relief to the Wixárika people, ordering the relevant authorities to revoke the mining concession titles within the Wirikuta Natural Sacred Site Protected Natural Area, and further mandating that, henceforth, any granting of concessions must be subject to consultation.
| February 2026
Pronouncement and press release by the Wixarika Regional Council in Mexico City regarding the UNESCO's recognition of their pilgrimage route to Wirikuta.
| December 2025
We are pleased to close out another year with progress in all our areas of operation. We appreciate the participation and support of the public and look forward to what we have in store for 2026.
| December 2025
The historically marginalized and isolated Indigenous Wixárika towns of Northern Jalisco,  will soon gain improved road connections, thanks to a program by Mexico’s Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT). 
| December 2025
Traditional, civil, and agrarian authorities from the Wixárika communities that make up the Regional Council held a press conference at the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (Prodh), where they emphasized that the Council, along with its allies, has worked for years to achieve this international recognition and to publicize the importance of this work. Furthermore, this recognition “does not mean surrendering our ancient culture, but rather protecting it to prevent its plundering, commodification, and extinction.” The inscription, in turn, “commits the Mexican State more than ever to providing sustainable development options for local inhabitants to prevent the exploitation of the territory by agribusiness and extractive projects.”