Merry MacMasters
| 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.”