Periodicals

| July 2003

Editorial about the investments made for electric cable installation throughout the Wixarika sierras during the presidency of Vicente Fox Quezada. In this case, it is argued that the alternative of solar panels is better because of its lesser ecological footprint and cost, but also because of the negative cultural implications of electrification.

| April 2003
Santiago Ixcuintla, México David De la Cruz, a Huichol Indian farmworker, was harvesting tobacco last month when a crop duster flew overhead, dousing him with toxic pesticides. De la Cruz vomited for three days, but he never thought to see a doctor.
| January 2000
"The Huichol are best known for their strikingly vivid, and colorful, yarn paintings and beadwork. However, few people know or understand the depth of this pre-Colombian culture. This book is just a brief overview of some answers to some of the questions I am asked of these interesting people." Peter Collings
| December 1999
El Instituto Nacional Indigenista señalo que lo ocurrido en los albergues infantiles de la zona huichol, no se puede considerar, de acuerdo a los especialistas, como una epidemia, ya que no es un problema de tipo infecto-contagioso, ni tampoco de un brote de locura, ya que los signos y síntomas que presentan los niños, no son compatibles con esas anormalidades.
| August 1997

According to state authorities, in less than a month the first results will be obtained for restitution of 110 thousand hectares demanded by the Wixaritari.

The federal and state authorities yesterday offered their political will to disactivate land conflicts in Huichol Indigenous communities in the north of Jalisco through the gestation of judicial authorities to achieve in a short and medium period of time the restitution of 110 thousands hectares of invaded communal land.

Read full Spanish language article here.

| July 1995
El Instituto Nacional para la educación de los adultos (INEA) en Jalisco, emprenderá la atención con sus programas de alfabetización, primaria y secundaría en la zona huichol, informó la delegada de esa dependencia federal, Blanca Escota González.
| July 1994
El Subprocurador de Asuntos Indígenas del Estado, presidente de la Unión de Comunidades Indígenas (UCI) y presidente de Bienes Comunales de Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitlán, profesor J. Guadalupe Carrillo de la Cruz, manifestó ayer que con los huicholes los que deben aprovechar sus bosques, sin necesidad de concesionar su explotación a nadie.
| September 1993
"Our country occupies the ninth place in emissions of contaminant gases and holds the fourth place amongst the most deforested in the world. In addition, Mexico emits 500 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere."
| August 1993
The governors of the Huichol communities of the state will meet today with Carlos Rivera Aceves, interim governor of Jalisco, to inform him about the agreements reached by their communities during the last general assembly, related to terminating the contract with the Mexican Forestry Promoter, owned by Enrique Niembro and to request that the Supreme Agrarian Court be the the decision-making body of the land conflict they have with the Nayarit cattle ranchers.
| August 1993
In the state of Jalisco, one of the child populations most affected by malnutrition is in the Huichol region, and it is because of this that during this week there will be a course developed by the National Indigenist Institute (INI) in Tuxpán de Bolaños, with the focus on nutritional orientation for comuneros in the centers that tend to Indigenous communities.