Itinerary and links: 10/27/09
Dates: Dec 29-Jan 8th
Arrive: Tuxtla, Chiapas
Depart: not sure yet. Need to determine if we have any connections in other states. We may want to consider flying out of Mexico City or somewhere in Guatemala.
Cities/towns to visit (see link for google map of all locations so far):
- San Cristóbal de las Casas
Human Rights Organization:
-- Fray Bartolome' de Las Casas (Contact: Tzotsil): http://www.frayba.org.mx/index.php
Environmental organization:
-- Maderas del Pueblo del Sureste (No contact):http://www.maderasdelpueblo.org.mx
- Oventic: Zapatista ejidos is a village in the Chiapas highlands about an hour north of San Cristóbal de las Casas
- -- December 31, there is a New Years Eve celebration of the anniversary of the 1994 Zapatista Uprising in Oventic.
-- The Good Government Junta receives visitors and can talk to you about sovereignty, autonomy and can learn more about the environmental destruction of the Caracol of Morelia.
- -- December 31, there is a New Years Eve celebration of the anniversary of the 1994 Zapatista Uprising in Oventic.
- San Juan Chamula: This village is particularly renowned for its adherence to ancient traditions. Shamanism and other forms of “folk medicine” are widely practised by its inhabitants. Meanwhile, spirits are said to occupy the forests and mountains around the town. This town is located to the northwest of San Cristóbal de las Casas.
- Acteal, Chiapas
- -- Las Abejas (no Contact): Organization that works to support the rights and autonomy of Indigenous and the human rights of the Acteal.
Oaxaca City: http://www.2501migrants.com/home.html
Lodging and transporation
- ??
Other interest that will capture goal of trip:
- I'd like to visit cooperatives, farms, education centers, ecological communities, markets, human rights activist, clinics and artist. Think about Sustainable Development,
MAP:
TOPICS OF CURRENT INTEREST:
- The pending destruction of the San Cristóbal to Palenque toll road.