Alonso Urrutia and Emir Olivares
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, December 24, 2024, p. 6
When announcing details of what will be, in 2025, the year dedicated to indigenous women, the director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Diego Prieto Hernández, reported that the purpose of the government of the first president in the country, Claudia Sheinbaum, is highlight the role that women have in all of humanity, but particularly in the fight for emancipation and for the rights of indigenous peoples, and for this reason, next year has been dedicated to indigenous women
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Prieto explained what will be the official government logo dedicated to indigenous women: four women were chosen to appear on the emblem, a Mexica woman, in this case Tecuichpo; a Mayan woman, Tz’ak-b’u Aha, also known as The Red Queen; a Mixtec, Señora Seis Mono (Mixtec lady of Huachino) and finally, representing the Toltec woman, Xiuhtzatzin, which means Flower of the Toltec land. She reflects serenity and security.
During the presidential conference, the director of the INAH was responsible for presenting the capsule of Mexican humanism, on this occasion dedicated to offering details about the year of the indigenous woman that Sheinbaum herself had already anticipated last week.
It must be taken into account that, in the last days of September, a reform to article two of the Constitution was approved, in which indigenous peoples and Afro-Mexican groups are recognized as subjects of public law with the capacity to have their own forms of government. , of organization, maintaining their languages and, of course, their territories and their heritage
Prieto declared.
He commented that on another occasion it will be explained how the curation of this emblem was done, making it clear that we will never be able to express the immensity and diversity of our indigenous peoples, our native peoples, it is simply a matter of giving examples.
