“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.

“Let’s Talk About Hikuri” (‘Hablemos de Hikuri’) is a project that was designed to create spaces for dialogue about hikuri (Lophophora williamsii), or peyote, in order to provide debates and reflections on the use and consumption of this cactus and consider proposals for its protection and use.

Wirikuta is one of the most important natural sacred sites of the Wixárika (Huichol) indigenous people and the world. The Wixárika people live in the states of Jalisco, Nayarit and Durango and are recognized for having preserved their spiritual identity. They have continued to practice their cultural and religious traditions for thousands of years. Wirikuta is the birthplace of the sun and the territory where the different Wixárika communities make their pilgrimage, recreating the route taken by their spiritual ancestors to sustain the essence of life on this planet. In this desert springs the peyote or jicuri, the cactus that the Wixárika ritually ingest to receive the “gift of seeing”.

Article detailing the impacts of the "Psychedelic Rennaissance" on peyote conservation, peyote politics and the appropriation of Wixarika culture by global consumers.

The catalog "Great Masters of Wixárika Art, Juan Negrín Collection", which includes in its pages modern Wixárika works of art and texts that delve into the collection of the same name, was presented on January 11th by authorities of the Jalisco Ministry of Culture (SC).

A contingent of at least 1,000 indigenous Wixárika (Huichol) people in the Western Sierra Madre are gearing up to take back their lands after a legal decision in a decade-long land dispute with neighboring ranchers who have held the land for more than a century.

A group of 15 Wixáritari people have been working around the clock during the last seven weeks to finish the 32 pieces of an 882-square foot mosaic that will weigh two tons.

Wixaritari communities of San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán (Wuaut + a), have detained first and second level government officials from Jalisco State in the town of Mesa del Tirador, in protest of the lack of answers to their demands—in particular, the issue of land restitution in Huajimic, in the neighboring state of Nayarit. The state government officially denies that the officials are being ‘forcibly’ detained. Sources from the state executive and from the community, confirmed to MILENIO JALISCO that there are several secretaries who are being held after attending a meeting the community called with them to discuss and resolve various problems relating to education, health, road infrastructure and poverty. Officials have been warned by the communal leaders that as a means of pressuring the officials to resolve these issues—but above all, due to the federal government’s neglect of the issue of land restitution—they will remain in Mesa del Tirador.

After 13 years of constant struggle, the Wixárika Regional Council for the Defense of Wirikuta (CRW), a coalition comprised of traditional, civil, and agrarian authorities from the Wixaritari communities of Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitlán, San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán, and Tuxpan de Bolaños in Jalisco, and Bancos de San Hipólito, continues to demand that the Mexican State cancel the 78 mining concessions that threaten the sacred land of Wirikuta and its 140,000 hectares, which extend across the municipalities of Real de Catorce, Charcas, Vanegas, Villa de Guadalupe, and Villa de la Paz, in the state of San Luis Potosí.

The lands were seized in the 1950s from the Wixarika community of San Sebastian Teponahuaxtlan, spread across two states in western Mexico. The National Indigenous Congress (CNI), a nation-wide Mexican organization backed by the National Zapatista Liberation Army (EZLN), denounced the aggression on two of its members fighting to restore lands to the indigenous Wixarika people in western Mexico, illegally taken by landlords and ranchers.