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Campaign Update – Mexico: Mining Office Replies to Cultural Survival

Date: 12/07/2011

Mexico has assigned a special commission to consider the protests of the Wixárika (Huichol) people against mining and other environmentally destructive projects within the Wirikuta Natural and Cultural Reserve, according to a letter Cultural Survival received from Mexico’s Office of Mining. Signed by the General Director of Mining, Lic. Miguel Angel Romero González, the letter says that the Wixárika case is being considered by a commission coordinated by the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples (CDI), with representatives of the Ministries of Governance (SEGOB), Economy (SE), Agrarian Reform (SRA), Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), Agriculture (PA), and the state governments of San Luis Potosi, Durango,  and Nayarit.

Campaign Update - Mexico: Writers and Artists Sign Petition to Protect Wirikuta

Date: 12/05/2011
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More than 150 writers and artists from 30 different countries joined together to sign a petition against the First Majestic Silver mine proposedwithin the Wirikuta Natural and Cultural Reserve, reported the Associated Press last week.  The petition was led by Mexican writers and environmentalists Homero and Betty Aridjis, and is directed to Mexican president Felipe Calderón, urging him to cancel the concessions made to the Canadian company on sacred lands of the Huichol (Wixárika) people.

Campaign Update - Mexico: Tourism Complex Threatens Another Huichol Sacred Site

Date: 11/17/2011
Tatei Haramara photo, from the documentary "Flores en el Desierto", by José ÁlvarezTatei Haramara photo, from the documentary "Flores en el Desierto", by José ÁlvarezAnother area considered sacred by the Huichol people of Mexico has been licensed out in concessions by the government. According to the Secretary for the Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), approximately 250 acres of beachfront property including the sacred area of Tatéi Haramara will be developed for tourism.
The area known as Playa del Rey, a beach in San Blas, Nayarit, since ancestral times has been a place for worship and prayer to the Huichol goddess of the sea, Tatéi Haramara.

Campaign Update - Mexico: Huicholes March to President's Residence

Date: 11/03/2011

On October 26 and 27, hundreds of Huichol people traveled 20 hours to the Mexican capital to demand, once more, that President Felipe Calderón cancel mining concessions in their sacred lands and fulfill his promises to the Huichol people.

Campaign Update – Mexico: Save Wirikuta Convocatoria, Oct 26-27

Date: 10/25/2011

The Wixárika Regional Council and its allies in the Front for the Defense of Wirikuta Tamatsima Waha'a are mobilizing public events and demonstrations in Mexico City this week. They urge everyone to join them, both locally and internationally, in calling for permanent protection for the Wirikuta Natural and Cultural Reserve. Read their call to action below, in English, and the original Spanish here on their website.

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