"The recognition and struggle for the rights of rural women to access land remains a great feat for consolidating and guaranteeing equality of conditions. The structural barriers and the discriminatory social norms still limit the power that rural women have to participate en their own communities. " 

Read the full article written by Xaurima Siitlali Chino Carrillo here.

In recent years, progressive politicians, doctors, community groups and Silicon Valley investors alike have thrown their weight behind decriminalization bills in dozens of US states and cities. Their goal to spread the benefits of psychedelics may be well-intentioned, but for Indigenous Americans, the boom has a dark side that rarely comes up in venture capital pitches. Many Diné tribal members are describing this moment as a “peyote crisis” that threatens to appropriate and commodify their sacred way of life.Their concerns are multifold. Decriminalizing peyote could fuel poaching and a black market for the slow-growing cactus, whose limited habitat is already threatened by climate change and development. A sudden surge in demand might completely wipe out peyote from its natural environment, traditional practitioners say.

The Indigenous Wixárika community of San Sebastián Teponahuxtlán in Nayarit has recovered 2,585 hectares of its ancestral lands – a quarter of the territory it has been struggling to reclaim for nearly 70 years. The transfer took place peacefully after the Presidential Commission for land restitution assembled to address the dispute negotiated compensation with 13 property owners to return the land to its ancestral inhabitants.

En medio del conflicto de potencias, de las humanas contra las naturales y espirituales entre pueblos originarios y mestizos sobre el uso de una cactácea con componentes psicoactivos, se abre un marco propicio para desfavorecer a la planta convertida en droga.

After a monthlong march and three-day campout in front of the National Palace, Wixárika caravan gets presidential audience.

This past weekend was an intense and frightening one for many here in Western Mexico — at least among the people who care about the land and Indigenous people: high-profile Wixárika land defender and attorney Santos de la Cruz Carrillo had disappeared on Friday along with his wife and two children, including a three-month-old baby.

Justice Plan developed jointly with the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI) and representatives of the various indigenous peoples requested and invited. The document explains the historical, geographic, and cultural context of the ancestral territory of the Wixárika, Na'ayeri, O'dam, and Meshikan peoples, with the explicit objective of developing public policies based on the consultations held during this process (2022-2023) under the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Read full Spanish-language document here.

The sacred cactus for Indigenous peoples and protected internationally to avoid its extinction continues to be trafficked between Mexico and the United States. While the authorities in charge of investigating and punishing the traffic of peyote show space results.

“We need to raise our voices so that our rights do not continue to be violated”: Sitlali Chino Carrillo, President of the Agrarian Commission for the communities of San Sebastián and Tuxpán de Bolaños. Like the other members of the caravan, she had walked 353 kilometers upon her arrival to Guadalajara, and she is willing to continue 700 more to the National Palace if necessary.

Complete video of visit made to the National Palace on March 23, 2022 by Wixarika and small farmer representatives to demand the protection of their natural and cultural landscapes. This video shows the presence of the Consejo Regional Wixárika led by their mara'akame, Ambrosio López, the Union of Ceremonial Centers of Durango, Jalisco and Nayarit, y and small farmers from the Wirikuta region of the high plateaus of San Luis Potosí.