Peace and Reconciliation Mexico Project #57836

For peace in the Tarahumara region

by Fundacion San Ignacio de Loyola A.C.

Project Report | Jul 28, 2023
The Raramuri population is in danger. Identity

By Adapaulina Ramos | Lider de proyecto

There are records from 1989 with the following diagnosis of the people of the Tarahumara region: "a disunited people, living in a situation of cultural shock, of a dichotomy between faith and life, with strong vices and injustices: drug trafficking, alcoholism, lack of sources of work , Loss of identity".

Different activities have been carried out since 1990 to promote the recovery of the language and it has been seen that it has a positive impact on the union and identity of the communities.

The population of five years or older speaking an indigenous language has seen a continuous increase thanks to the activities that are carried out as a recovery of traditions through music, dances, rites and traditions.

With great sadness, it was discovered in 2002 and 2013 that other segregation problems have worsened, favored by government programs that adapt more easily to mestizo peoples who have benefited more widely while indigenous areas have been affected by projects that have divided communities and overexploited their forests.

To this we add the increase in poverty, violence and lack of guardians and promoters such as Fr. Javier Camos and Fr. Joaquín Mora.

Thanks to your donation we are working every day in cultural centers, promoting cultural practices such as festivals, music, language, games, songs and dances where symbols that give a sense of identity are reinforced.

Traditional Rarámuris values are recovered, such as the self-consumption economy over the consumerist and welfare economy; shared assets instead of the accumulation of assets; group solidarity in the face of competition without measure; the sense of community as opposed to individualism; the collective sense and celebration of work, the use of the native language, the value of the countryside and its culture.

Your support means the possibility of creating conditions for the reconstruction of the social network. However, help is still necessary to promote the objectives, create spaces, disseminate the activities in the mountains, generate quality and dignified spaces. Please do not stop supporting this project to continue, spreading or donating, the way to get involved is very valuable. Thank you so much.

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Mar 30, 2023
En peligro la poblacion raramuri. Caos y violencia

By Adapaulina Ramos | Project Leader

Aprovechan instrumentos nuevos

There are complex processes that not only require dedication and intentionality, but also require a permanent effort, such as the construction of peace. However, despite working hard to care for the population, we find ourselves facing an overwhelming violence in the area.

On June 20, 2022, the murder of Pedro Palma and the Jesuits Javier Camos and Joaquín Mora, has made visible the great lack of attention to the situation of violence in the country. This case, named, in the words of Father Jorge Atilano as "an emblematic case of social decomposition [...] speaks of the weak institutionality of the state and the fragility in which the indigenous communities of the Sierra Tarahumara find themselves"

This scenario is due to many complex macrostructural causes that require the intervention and participation of many sectors of society and authorities.

What urgently concerns us is addressing the deterioration of the social fabric that we identify as one of the deepest causes of the violence and crime in which the Rarámuri communities are immersed.

From the Sierra Tarahumara, efforts have been made to strengthen the sense of hope and community in the face of such discouraging events. We understand peace not as the definitive suspension of conflict and violence, but rather as the result of a process of social reconstruction that contemplates as one of the fundamental edges the sense of identity such as cultural practices (symbols, rites, festivals, music , language, etc.).

For this reason, we consider it important to open paths for peace, where the Rarámuris are the ones who figure as builders of their future and their community, a community that favors cohesion, respect for their culture and their diversity. A community that appropriates its spaces and in which children, as fundamental actors, build references of meaning and belonging by returning to their traditions, their music, their songs, their dances.

Thanks to the donations received, the activities to strengthen their identity provide, mainly to the Rarámuri children, the opportunity to create different conditions for the construction of a future in peace.

The music activities are carried out with some new instruments that favor the possibility of developing skills, of knowing traditional songs accompanied by stories and tales, with dignity and freedom.

Thanks to the donations that they shared with us, they also bought fabrics that the girls now wear in new typical costumes that reinforce the bonds in relationships of trust and care. They are used in traditional activities together with the other people in the community.

Your contribution is building bridges between girls and boys and their communities. Please continue to support the community, resilient, willing and urgent to seize this opportunity to build the peace we have dreamed of for decades.

"It is the time for the Rarámuri institutions, to recover their ways of resolving conflicts and addressing problems, to understand their way of understanding the world and support their ways of recovering social harmony, because we are all the Sierra Tarahumara." Jorge Atilano Gozález Candia, S.J.

Existen procesos complejos que no solo requieren dedicación e intencionalidad, también requieren un esfuerzo permanente, como la construcción de la paz, sin embargo, a pesar de trabajar arduamente en el cuidado de la población, nos vemos frente a una violencia desbordada en la zona.

El 20 de junio del 2022 el asesinato de Pedro Palma y de los jesuitas Javier Camos y Joaquín Mora, ha visibilizado la gran falta de atención a la situación de violencia en el país. Este caso, nombrado, en palabras del padre Jorge Atilano como "un caso emblemático de la descomposición social [...] habla de la débil institucionalidad del estado y la fragilidad en que se encuentran las comunidades indígenas de la Sierra Tarahumara"

Este escenario se debe a muchas causas macroestructurales complejas que requieren la intervención y participación de muchos sectores de la sociedad y de autoridades.

Lo que nos ocupa con urgencia es atender el deterioro del tejido social que identificamos como una de las causas más profundas de la violencia y la delincuencia en la que están inmersas las comunidades rarámuris.

Desde la sierra Tarahumara se ha buscado fortalecer el sentido de esperanza y comunidad ante tales hechos desalentadores. Entendemos la paz no como la suspensión definitiva del conflicto y la violencia, sino como el resultado de un proceso de reconstrucción social que contempla como una de las aristas fundamentales el sentido de identidad como lo son las prácticas culturales (símbolos, ritos, fiestas, música, lengua, etc.).

Por lo anterior consideramos importante abrirnos caminos para la paz, en donde los rarámuris sean quienes figuren como constructores de su futuro y su comunidad, una comunidad que favorezca la cohesión, el respeto a su cultura y su diversidad. Una comunidad que se apropia de sus espacios y en la que, las y los niños como actores fundamentales construyen referentes de sentido y pertenencia volviendo a sus tradiciones, su música, sus cantos, sus danzas.

Gracias a los donativos recibidos, las actividades de fortalecimiento de su identidad brindan, principalmente a las y los niños rarámuri la oportunidad de crear condiciones distintas para la construcción de un futuro en paz.

Las actividades de música las realizan con algunos instrumentos nuevos que favorecen la posibilidad de desarrollar habilidades, de conocer canciones tradicionales acompañadas de historias y cuentos, con dignidad y libertad.

Gracias a los donativos que nos compartieron también se compraron telas que las niñas ahora visten en trajes típicos nuevos que refuerzan los vínculos en relaciones de confianza y cuidado. Se usan en actividades tradicionales junto con las demás personas de la comunidad.

Tu aportación está construyendo puentes entre las niñas y niños y sus comunidades. Por favor continúa apoyando a la comunidad, resiliente, dispuesta y urgente por aprovechar esta oportunidad de construir la paz que hemos soñado por décadas.

"Es el tiempo de la institucionalidad rarámuri, de recuperar sus formas de resolver conflictos y atender los problemas, de comprender su manera de entender el mundo y apoyar sus modos de recuperar la armonía social, porque todos somos la Sierra Tarahumara". Jorge Atilano Gozález Candia, S.J

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