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).

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.

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.

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.

Pronouncement and press release by the Wixarika Regional Council in Mexico City regarding the UNESCO's recognition of their pilgrimage route to Wirikuta.

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.

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). 

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.”

On November 26, at approximately 5 p.m., an armed attack occurred at El Caracol, a property belonging to the Wixárika and Tepehuan autonomous community of San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, in the municipality of Villa Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico (https://bit.ly/3XwSKPl). Following the attack, the murder of Marcos Aguilar Rojas, the community's agrarian representative, was confirmed. Gabriel Aguilar Rojas sustained gunshot wounds. The news was released in a statement issued by the National Indigenous Congress.

The inscription of the Wixárika Route through the Sacred Sites to Wirikuta as a UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage Site, on July 12, during the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee, is “a strategic tool that strengthens the protection of Wirikuta and many other sacred places along our ancestral routes to prevent their deterioration and destruction,” stated members of the Wixárika Regional Council for the Defense of Wirikuta.