"President Claudia Sheinbaum has taken decisive steps toward the restitution of ancestral lands to the Wixárika people in a historic process that seeks to repair decades of dispossession and agrarian conflict in the border region between Jalisco and Nayarit.

The Wixárika, sometimes known as the Huichol, are an Indigenous group primarily from the state of Jalisco. They mainly live in the municipalities of Mezquitic, Bolaños, and to a lesser extent, Huejuquilla. According to official figures, this area is home to approximately 14,300 Wixárikas.

"Bianca América Enríquez López o Tanima, as her grandparents called her in Wixarika, was born in Bajío del Tule, San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán. Tanima grew up experiencing the community assemblies and that inspired her first concerns over the rights of Indigenous peoples. With Perimetral, Tanima shares her personal story and her new role in the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples where she was named a delegate." 

“In a day considered to be historic, the municipality of Bolaños experienced an unprecedented exercise in intercultural democracy this Sunday. Wixarika and Mestizo residents participated in a referendum to decide whether the city council should be governed by its own normative system of government, based on Indigenous customs and practices. According to preliminary figures shared by community liaisons, more than 50 percent of the nominal list turned out to vote, and the majority reportedly voted in favor of the change of regime."

Abstract: Since 2010, the Wixarika (Huichol) indigenous people of western Mexico have struggled against transnational mining activity in their sacred pilgrimage site of Wirikuta in the semi-desertic plateaus of San Luis Potosi. This struggle has been accompanied by a multitude of non-indigenous and largely urban actors who have joined the Wixarika, bringing with them their own cultural, political and geographic registers for understanding and mobilizing against mining in the region.