Mexico
 Date: June 12, 2013
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 Date: May 7, 2013
The Wirikuta Defense Front released their annual report on the mining concessions in their territory and the threats they represent to their people and have presented the information to James Anaya, the UN Special Rapporteur for Indige |
 Date: February 11, 2013
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 Date: November 26, 2012
Tensions are brewing in the Máasewal communities of central Quintana Roo (known as Zona Maya) between those who want to continue the current system of ejido and those succumbing to the pressure to sell their ejido rights. |
 Date: November 19, 2012
The federal government of Mexico has proposed the creation of a Biosphere Reserve in the area of Wirikuta, sacred site to the Wixarika (Huichol) people and the battle ground for a silver mine first proposed by Canadian company First Maj |
 Date: November 8, 2012
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 Date: September 27, 2012
By José E. Martínez-Reyes |
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Date: August 14, 2012
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 Date: July 20, 2012
Porfirio Gutierrez comes from a long tradition of Zapotec rug weavers. |
 Date: May 31, 2012
By Tracy Barnett of The Esperanza Project |
 Date: May 25, 2012
by Tracy Barnett of The Esperanza Project MEXICO CITY – It sounded too good to be true – and, indeed, it was. |
 Date: March 2, 2012
Indigenous rights activists across Mexico and the world are celebrating the news that a federal court suspended 38 mining concessions in the sacred Wirikuta Reserve in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. |
 Date: February 14, 2012
Long before nations like Mexico, the United States, and Canada existed, my people, the Wixárika Nation (incorrectly known as Huichol), were the original inhabitants of this land. |
 Date: February 14, 2012
Hundreds of Wixárika pilgrims traveled last week from their homes in the Western Sierra Madre mountains to Wirikuta, expressing their united determination to save this most sacred place. Wearing ceremonial dress and bearing gifts and offerings, they traversed the path of their ancestors to the place where the sun first rose, Wirikuta |
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Date: December 7, 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 Cul |
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Date: December 5, 2011
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Date: November 17, 2011
Another area considered sacred by the Huichol people of Mexico has been licensed out in concessions by the government. |
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Date: November 3, 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. |
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Date: October 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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Date: September 12, 2011
James Anaya, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, recently published a report on his correspondence with the Mexican government regarding mining concessions within Mexico’s Wirikuta Natural and Cultural Reserve, an area that is sacred to the Wixárika (Huichol) people.
Anaya presented the following facts to the State of Mexico:
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