Action: send a letter to the authorities in Mexico to demand cancellation of mining Concessions Wirikuta
Action: send a letter to the authorities in Mexico to demand cancellation of mining Concessions Wirikuta http://www.redtdt.org.mx/d_acciones/d_visual.php?id_accion=273 ¡We demand cancellation of concessions affecting the Wirikuta Protected Natural Area! Enrique Peña Nieto President Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Secretary of Economy Mario Alfonso Cantu Suarez General Coordinator of Mining Miguel Angel Osorio Chong Secretary...
WIXÁRIKA PEOPLE SUBMIT AN APPEAL FOR CANCELLATION OF MINING CONCESSIONS
Press Release WIXÁRIKA PEOPLE SUBMIT AN APPEAL FOR CANCELLATION OF MINING CONCESSIONS Illegal exploration activities are performed with complete impunity According to the mining law, not having permits and environmental authorizations is a cause for cancellation of concessions. On Friday, March 1, 2013, integral authorities of the Wixárika Regional Council appealed to the Secretary...
Press Release, WIRIKUTA SACRED PLACE FUNDAMENTAL TO THE SURVIVAL OF THE WIXARIKA PEOPLE AND TO HUMANITY
PRESS RELEASE Mexico City. February 7, 2013. WIRIKUTA SACRED PLACE FUNDAMENTAL TO THE SURVIVAL OF THE WIXARIKA PEOPLE AND TO HUMANITY CONTINUES TO BE SERIOUSLY THREATENED BY THE IMPUNITY OF MINING AND AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES. • Despite attempts to divide us, the Wixarika people maintain a single voice: “The cancellation of all mining concessions.” And they...
URGENT SECOND LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO, THE PEOPLES AND GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD
Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto Constitutional President of the United Mexican States To the Peoples and Governments of the World We the undersigned, traditional and agrarian authorities from the communities of San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán, Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitlán and Bancos de San Hipólito, Wixárika Regional Council members, come to make known to you in your capacity as...
THE NATIONAL MINING RESERVE WILL NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF MINING AND AGROINDUSTRIAL CONCESSIONS IN WIRIKUTA
RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL MINING RESERVE WILL NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF MINING AND AGROINDUSTRIAL CONCESSIONS IN WIRIKUTA The Wirikuta Defense Front – Tamatsima Wahaa, given the recent announcements that the Federal Government has released as measures for the protection Wirikuta, declare the following: The measures imposed...
Press Release by the Wixárika Regional Council
PRESS RELEASE *On the eve of the Wirikuta Fest concert, the government’s announcement for the protection of Wirikuta is considered by Wixárika authorities to be incomplete and filled with false information that distorts the reality of the sacred place. *Mining in the sacred territory of Wirikuta is not canceled. *First Majestic Silver Corp., through its...
Press Conference – The Regional Council Wixárika
Mexico City, May 24, 2012. For the editors, reporters and columnists in the national and international media and the general public. The Regional Council Wixárika through The Wirikuta Defense Front – Tamatsima Wahaa has the honor to invite you to the Press Conference which will take place at the Human Rights Centre Miguel Agustin Pro,...
The words of our deities
In the coming weeks we will have English subtitles. Now we share the English text with the intention to know the message of the deities Good morning to all those present who hear me. I am going to relate the words of our deities, who flourished during last night’s chant. Tatewari Tutsi (the Grandfather of the Fire) speaks to us of his ancestral...
On the Conventions for the protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage and of Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO
The territory of Wirikuta, considered Natural and Cultural Reserve of Wirikuta with more than 350,000 acres, since 2004 is in the tentative list to become World Cultural and Natural Heritage Site of UNESCO. This protection, established by the “Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage of UNESCO”, is what we ask for Wirikuta....
Mining and the Huichol Ancestral Landscape
In the last year, author Paul M. Liffman has provided comments about the Wixarika (Huichol) people’s fight for cultural rights and a ban on large-scale silver mining near their principal sacred sites to the southwest of the historic town of Real de Catorce in the state of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. He provides a timely update...
Documentaries about the Wixarika culture and the defense of Wirikuta in the National Museum of the American Indian, New York
The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, in cooperation with Cinema Tropical and the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, presents At the Movies: Huichol Journeys Thursday, March 29, 6:00 pm Saturday, March 31, 2:00 pm Auditorium, George Gustav Heye Center National Museum of the American Indian One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004 Admission is...
Project Universo, the New Threat to Wirikuta
RECENT TECHNICAL INFORMATION ON THE Wirikuta CASE The Tamatsima Wahaa Front for the Defense of Wirikuta reiterates once again that Wirikuta is not confined to specific sites where the Wixarika people deliver their offerings, but Wirikuta is the full collection of stones, springs, cactus, snakes, scenery, etc., comprised in a continuous stretch of land over...
Salvemos Wrikuta
Venado Mestizo
