Opinion: The deadly costs for Mexico’s Indigenous communities fighting climate change
LA TimesSan Juan Mixtepec, a small town in a mountainous region of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is known as Nuu Snuviko in Mixteco, an Indigenous language, which translates to the “place where the clouds descend.” Mexico’s Indigenous communities are on the front lines of ecological preservation. A study by the Rights and Resources Initiative estimates that more than half of Mexico’s land is owned by Indigenous peoples and local communities. Indigenous activists face threats from the Mexican federal and local governments, corporations and organized crime, the same entities that have made Mexico the world’s most dangerous country for journalists. Indigenous communities protecting precious natural resources deserve to be heard and incorporated in Mexican authorities’ political and economic decisions increasingly affecting their territories.
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