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7th Milpa Festival: Indigenous Communities Resist
Three months before the 20th anniversary of NAFTA, I found myself in an old school bus traveling through the Sierra Juarez in Oaxaca, Mexico. The landscape was unbelievably beautiful. Riding on the curvy roads I saw dense green vegetation and endless chains of mountains. The Sierra Juarez´ flora and fauna have been preserved because they have powerful allies: indigenous people who have fought for centuries to protect their land, their culture, their way of life, and mother ea
Groups of Small-Scale Farmers Reject “Oaxaca’s Program for Self-Sustaining Agriculture”
The program endangers small-scale agriculture and the biodiversity of corn. It also harms the environment and people’s health. We call on Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico; Enrique Martínez y Martínez, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Cattle Ranching, Fisheries, and Nourishment (SAGARPA); and Teodulo Manuel García Corpus, Oaxaca State Delegate of SAGARPA; and we convey to them the following: As part of the Crusade Against Hunger, the government drives a natio
Monsanto and GMOs: Worldwide Resistance
Monsanto is infamous throughout the world and Mexico is no exception. Here in corn’s birthplace, Monsanto is increasingly expanding its dominion of the food industry. This has created changes that have affected Mexicans’ diets, health, way of life, and ability to survive. But in the US Monsanto is up to no good as well, and Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have become an important subject of debate. Throughout the years, there has been great concern about the effects of
Pre-Trial Hearing Judgement : People’s Permanent Tribunal Regarding Corn
Despite everything that successive governments have done to dismantle the Constitution of Mexico, its social and political commitments, and its sense of nationhood that Mexicans formed almost 100 years ago, the Constitution is still its Carta Magna: a document that remains a source of both rights and national union. Article 39 of the Constitution deems that national sovereignty belongs to the people of Mexico. It belongs to each and every one of those who came to present thei
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