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The Cartagena Piensa program, organized by the Department of Culture, has arranged for this Wednesday, October 24, a double act at the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center that will allow an approach to the culture of the Huichol of Mexico and their struggle to defend their land of projects that threaten their destruction.
Cartagena Piensa offers the opportunity to get to know one of the oldest prehispanic towns, which has some rich traditions.
The Huichols still survive in their territories of Mexico, counting on a living culture and struggling to defend their land from the development projects of the multinationals that threaten their destruction.
This town is known as the Huicholes, although they are named in their language as the Wixarikas, and they are also called 'the guardians of the peyote'.
Wirikuta is its sacred territory par excellence, incorporated in 1988 by UNESCO to the World Network of Natural Sacred Spaces.
For the Huichol people, Wirikuta originated the cosmos as we know it and is the place where and from where they have pilgrimage, since time immemorial, in the recreation of the journey made by their mythical ancestors in the primal process of configuration of the universe.
For the Huichols, Wirikuta is where life is woven, sustained and renewed, not only on the planet, but throughout the universe.
The event will be in the auditorium of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center.
At 18:00 in the screening of the documentary, 'Huicholes: the last guardians of peyote' (Mexico, 2014).
The audiovisual tells the story about the Wixárika people, one of the last living Prehispanic cultures in Latin America, and their struggle against the Mexican government and transnational mining corporations to preserve Wirikuta, its most sacred territory, where peyote grows, the ancestral medicine that keeps alive the knowledge of this emblematic town of Mexico.
Then, at 8:30 p.m., a talk-talk will be offered by the sociologist and poet Eduardo Guzmán, a prominent activist who has been fighting alongside the Huichols for 25 years.
Guzmán will come from Mexico to show this little-known story, speaking of his experience during more than 25 years of relationship with the Huichols, as a prominent member of the ecoterritorial defense and for the life of the Wixarika communities (Huicholas) that suffers the threat of being devastated by the implementation of several open-pit mining megaprojects, included in the production model identified as mining extractivism.
The presence of Eduardo Guzmán is part of a tour of Spain that is part of the desire of the Huichol people, and of the communities that inhabit the Wirikuta desert, to produce strategies and actions aimed at denouncing and making visible the threats that loom over Wirikuta. on an international level.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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