The participatory litigation for the defense of the indigenous Territories of Mexico

Abstract

In Mexico, since 1992, indigenous peoples are constitutionally recognized as members of the nation and their presence is valued for their contributions to the country's cultural diversity and therefore they are conceived as the sustenance of the national cultural heritage. Coincidentally, in the same year that Article 4 of the Constitution was amended to consider indigenous peoples for the first time as members of the Mexican State, Article 27 of the Constitution was also amended in order to free up the land market and make entry possible. of private capital for the exploitation of the subsoil and water and mining resources throughout the national territory. With this step, the Mexican State, on the one hand, put aside its nationalist identity, social and regulatory to openly assume its neoliberal profile; and, on the other hand, in relation to indigenous peoples, it abandoned its social justice policies to fully immerse itself in recognition policies with a multiculturalist approach, increasingly oriented towards the folklorization and commercialization of the cultural expressions of indigenous peoples and in general of cultural diversity