Wixárika Scholarship Fund recipient, María Fernanda Ramírez Gamboa, with a sign that says, "Neither the land nor women are territories to be conquered."
El altiplano potosino y la Sierra de Catorce conforman una región con un valor biocultural, como pocas en el mundo. Ahí está representada la mayor parte de las especies de flora y fauna silvestres de todo el desierto chihuahuense; concentra la biodiversidad de cactáceas más importante en el mundo.
La obra del artista wixárika Yucaye Kukame, José Benítez Sánchez, se conoce en todo el mundo. A través de sus cuadros de estambre o nierika (cuyo significado es complejo y profundo), la cosmogonía de esta etnia indígena se exhibió en más de 40 exposiciones en distintos países.
Estando reunidas y reunidos en la localidad de Estación Catorce, San Luis Potosí, representantes ejidales y habitantes de las localidades de la región, nos pronunciamos enérgicamente para que de manera inmediata sean respetados nuestros derechos humanos a la salud, al agua y a un medio ambiente sano.
There are 73 mining projects within natural protected areas in Mexico, one in a Unesco heritage site, but they are allowed to operate due to a law which defines mineral extraction as a public good.
We are pleased to announce the call for the third generation of scholarships 2020-2021 for Wixárika University students. This scholarship aims to help students with various university-related expenses such as school supplies and books, food, lodging or transportation. This year, the Wixárika Research Center, the International Friendship Club and VCEP will offer scholarships of $6,000 pesos for undergraduate students who have completed their first year of studies.
Guadalajara, Jal. Reunidos de urgencia ante los hechos violentos ocurridos entre las comunidades wixaritari de San Andrés Cohamiata y Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitlán, autoridades federales, estatales y la Comisión Estatal de Derechos Humanos (CEDHJ) instalaron una mesa de trabajo permanente cuyo primer acuerdo fue que Josefina Bravo Rangel, comisionada para el Diálogo de los Pueblos Indígenas por parte del gobierno federal, acuda a esa región del norte del estado.
The State Commission on Human Rights of Jalisco (CEDHJ) warned of problems of insecurity in the indigenous community of Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitlán, belonging to the municipality of Mezquitic, whose commissioner and three policemen were arrested for the enforced disappearance of the PRI pre-candidate. The community is now supposed to be guarded by state police, but residents accuse that it is null and void and instead in recent days detected the presence of a group of strange men who, list in hand, are looking for comuneros from the area.
After walking for up to four hours from their communities, besieged by drug traffickers, indigenous senior huicholes were vaccinated against covid-19 in Mezquitic, Jalisco.
