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Peru Gives Continuity to Mining Policies without Guarantees to Human Rights
FROM THE EDITORS: From Peru, Red Muqui shares an analysis of the Ministry of Energy’s new mining program under Pedro Castillo’s government, which essentially gives continuity to past mining policies. There is great concern about an obvious omission in recent documents of the human and social rights of indigenous and campesino communities, when Castillo had…
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What is Maya, What Is To Be Maya?
The word Maya is like the seed of maize falling on fertile soil or some stony place, full of thorns, where some hungry birds lurk, desperately looking for a light breakfast in the morning. The seed that falls on fertile soil is what some call pre-Hispanic, Mayanists classify it as a so-called preclassic, classical, or…
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Independence
FROM THE EDITORS: The Mexican state celebrated the country’s bicentennial independence with a strange mix of a military parade and pre-Hispanic mischaracterizations of indigenous peoples. The day of independence in many countries has in fact become to represent forced assimilations and territorial theft in the creation of these “new republics,” in the name of nationalist…
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Miskitos and Mayangnas in Nicaragua Demand Sovereignty to Prevent More Violence by Armed Settlers
Nicaragua faces a human rights crisis that is particularly bitter towards indigenous nations. From April 2018 to August 2021, there have been 32 murders of indigenous peoples. According to the Center for Legal Assistance to Indigenous Peoples (CALPI), the most recent incident was the massacre of at least 15 indigenous Miskitos and Mayangnas on August…
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Panama: Outright Rejection to New Mining Projects
According to Radio Temblor, a coalition of over 30 organizations that make up Panama Is Worth More without Mining Movement (MPVMSM, for its acronym in Spanish) has outright rejected the government’s plans to expand mining projects in the country, citing mismanagement and corruption. Members of this coalition gathered in mid-September for a conference to explore…
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Bioregional Plan to Protect the Lungs of the Planet
FROM THE EDITORS: A large alliance representing 30 indigenous nationalities, inhabitants and protectors of 35 million hectares of the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Amazon, published the “Bioregional Plan: Sacred Headwaters 2030” to present a strategic plan for the protection and conservation of forests led by indigenous peoples. The plan includes concrete transition actions towards indigenous self-determination…
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Indigenous Women in Brazil: “To not fight with the same weapons as the enemy, does not mean we are unarmed.”
FROM THE EDITORS: The first vote of the Supreme Court in Brasilia by Minister Edson Fachin against the “marco temporal” this September 9th was celebrated with joyful shouting by indigenous groups and more than 5 thousand women mobilized in the capital. Fachin rejected the premise that the Constitution of 1988 could define territorial rights that…
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Traditional Zapotec Homes to Rise and Resist
SOURCE: This essay has been translated in collaboration with the Tzam: Trece Semillas Zapatistas project, with permission from the author. Tzam is a long-term project that seeks to feature the work of 130 collaborators during 13 months between May 2021 to May 2022, based on 13 Zapatista demands for justice (13 is a sacred number…