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.
“In my 12 years of doing community radio, I had never had the opportunity to produce my own radio pieces. This was a task delegated and assumed by men, and therefore I came to think it was something complicated.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
