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Zapotec, Wixarica, Odami, and Nahuatl are four of the 68 Indigenous languages spoken in Mexico. Cultural Survival supports many Indigenous community radio stations around the world, including two organizations that are producing radio programs to be broadcast in these languages.  

Cultural Survival condemns the murder of the Purépecha environmental activist Guadalupe Campanur Tapia, whose body was found on January 16, 2018 in the municipality of Checrán, Michocán, Mexico. She was strangled to death by two unidentified killers. Investigators have not indicated that Campanur’s death was due to her activism, but they have not ruled it out either.

Por Avexnim Cojti

El Pueblo Maya Ch’orti’ cubre un vasto territorio en el Oriente de Guatemala principalmente en los municipios de Camotán, Jocotán, San Juan Ermita, Olopa, Quezaltepeque en el departamento de Chiquimula y La Unión, en el departamento de Zacapa, se extiende a los hermanos países de  El Salvador y Honduras. Según estadísticas nacionales, la mayoría de Ch’orti’ vive en Guatemala. Los Ch’orti’ son descendientes de sus ancestros Copan Kalel del Reino del Payaquí y  Copán, Guatemala/ Honduras.

On January 21, 2018, The National Indigenous Congress released a report via Twitter that a group of heavily armed men in two vans intercepted the caravan of aspiring Mexican Indigenous presidential candidate, María de Jesús Patricio Martínez (Nahua), also known as Marichuy, in the state of Michoacán. The report stated that the group intercepted the caravan between Tepalcatepec and Buenavista and threatened the journalists traveling with the candidate before stealing their cellular phones and camera equipment.
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