As President of Chile’s recent Constitutional Convention, I and my fellow delegates aimed to present an inclusive, democratic constituent process written by the Chilean people, and defining Chile as a social and democratic state of law: plurinational, intercultural, regional and ecological.
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I’ve been thinking a lot these days about what it means for an Indigenous person to navigate a colonial world.
We often think of food sovereignty as a response to not having enough food to eat. However, throughout Latin America (Abya Yala) and the Caribbean, people do not have enough food because they have been dispossessed from their territories, not because the land cannot produce.
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In January 2023, the Brazilian Minister of Health — faced with a regional scenario of malnutrition and a lack of medical assistance — declared a state of emergency on Yanomami lands.
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I was born into a family of human rights advocates in Mexico. From an early age, I became familiar with advocacy work with Indigenous communities firsthand.
