Please join us on April 21st at 6.30pm BST to hear this year's Incommindios-Lippuner scholar, Flavio Ayuso, discuss his work with the Ixil community in Yucatan, Mexico.
Flavio Ayuso
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La defensa de las tierras comunales del ejido de Ixil, Yucatán, México, ante megaproyectos / Defense of the communal lands of the Ixil Ejido, Yucatan, Mexico, against megaprojects
Contexto:
Se le llama “ejido” en México a las comunidades que administran sus tierras de manera colectiva, a través de un sistema asambleario para la toma de decisiones. En las asambleas participan personas que se les denomina “ejidatarios” y “ejidatarias” que son mayormente personas indígenas mayas.
[Communities that administer their land collectively, through an assembly system for decision-making, are called “Ejido” in Mexico. People who are known as “Ejidatarios” and “Ejidatarias” participate in the assemblies–they are mainly Mayan indigenous people.]
Tema:
Se abordará el caso concreto de Ixil, el cual se encuentra en defensa de su territorio comunal ante distintos megaproyectos inmobiliarios y eólicos. Estos proyectos pretenden instalarse en su territorio sin consulta previa, libre, informada y culturalmente adecuada, y sobretodo sin la autorización de la asamblea ejidal de la comunidad.
Se dará a conocer las estrategias que el ejido de Ixil ha implementado en defensa de su territorio.
[This talk will address the specific case of Ixil, which is defending its communal territory against different real estate and windpower megaprojects. These projects intend to install themselves in their territory without prior, free, informed and culturally adequate consultation, and above all without the authorization of the community’s Ejido assembly. The strategies that the Ixil ejido has implemented in defence of their territory will be presented.]
Flavio Ayuso, a young Mayan from Muna, a small community in southern Yucatan, is a student of Sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). For the past three years, he has supported Mayan communities in agrarian processes in defence of their territory against megaprojects and real estate developments that violate the collective rights of Mayan communities. He is currently closely supporting the agrarian judicial process of the community of Ixil, Yucatan, in the defence of their ejido territory against businessmen who intend to dispossess more than three thousand hectares of very well-preserved jungle. His topics of interest and research are agrarian law and agrarian sociology. In 2018 he received an honorable mention inthe “Premio Nacional de Ensayo sobre la Constitución Política del Estado de Yucatán” organized bythe Judicial Power of the State of Yucatan. He has published several mini essays in the Youth Blog of the Magazine of the University of Mexico.