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| December 2025
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.
| December 2025
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.
| November 2025
Article detailing the hydrological history of the region of Wirikuta in the high plateaus of Wirikuta and the reasons why mining and agroindustrial concessions are further endangering the water table. Includes maps and photographs.
| October 2025

Article written by longtime environmental activist and scholar, Tunuari Chávez. This article deals with the overexploitation of Wirikuta's aquifers despite environmental designations that should protect the region from the large-scale agroindustrial exploitation occurring at an increasingly fast pace.

| October 2025

Article summarizing the research conducted by Dr. Iracema Gavilán about lithium concessions in Wirikuta.

 

Read full Spanish-language article here.

| September 2025
Article detailing the historic removal of barbed wire fencing by a coalition of small farmers and allies from the Las Margaritas ejido in the heart of Wirikuta. Read Spanish-language article by Alfredo Valadez Rodríguez in the link.
| September 2025

Last month marked a historic victory for the Wixárika people of Mexico, and by extension for Indigenous communities across the Americas.

| August 2025
"Dawn takes its time in the Chihuahuan desert. By the time the first light brushes the hills above Wirikuta, Wixárika pilgrims are already moving, with gourd bowls and candles in hand, and stories carried in footsteps along a 500-kilometer thread of sacred sites that ties mountains to springs, desert to sea, and families to their ancestors. Last month, UNESCO wove that thread into World Heritage. 
| July 2025
A route through 20 sites sacred to Mexico’s Wixárika people was recently added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List, becoming the first such recognition for a living Indigenous tradition in Latin America.
| May 2025
Bianca América Enríquez López or Tanima, as her grandparents named her in Wixárika ceremony, was born in Bajío del Tule, San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán. Tanima grew up living in the community, and the assemblies sowed the first concerns about the rights of the native peoples.