226:(INE) on October 15, 2017, Marichuy and the Council have begun collecting the required 866,593 signatures, throughout 17 states, during the subsequent 120 days. The INE digital signature process via cell telephone has revealed serious flaws weighted to benefit wealthier voters. Marichuy said, "the INE made a list of telephone makes and models so that you must have at a minimum an Android 5.0 operating system or higher and so many hours to begin with the download of the applications in the devices, we find that the list is not true; we find brands that are not included in the list and of those that are included they don’t all work. The download is tedious and can take hours." The INE declared each signature registration would take 4.3 minutes, but each actual signature registration has taken up to 16 hours, or more. 'With these "classist, racist and excluding measures," Marichuy said, you realize "that this electoral system is not made for those peoples below that govern ourselves and that the laws and institutions of the State are made for those above, for the capitalists and their corrupt political class, resulting in a big simulation."'
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Congress (CNI) as their spokesperson and representative for the presidency. Although afraid at first to accept her election to participate, Maria joined the campaign in hope to address the problem severely affecting her community. Some of the concerns that impacted Maria to participate in the election include the imposition of mines, remnants of waste left by companies that negatively affect the environment as well as the repression of communities that fought against dispossession such as death, disappearances and incarcerations and the ongoing health problems occurring in her community. In hope to bring visibility to the issues occurring in her community, Maria participated in the election to facilitate a connection between both indigenous communities and society in an effort to reconstruct Mexico. Her campaign reflected both a displacement and an adherence to post-modern
Zapatista politics –on the one hand, they reject state-power as a political goal; on the other, by endorsing Marichuy they joined an electoral competition of alternative state projects.
195:. The National Indigenous Congress is an organization Maria became a founding member of to voice the demands and necessities of both indigenous and disadvantage communities in the country. By establishing a removal of the Mexican political establish in a desire to construct a new style of political engagement, the organization approaches its demands by combatting marginalization and underrepresentation of communities. "We think that compañera Marichuy doesn’t sell out, doesn’t give up and doesn’t surrender, as she was trained inside the CNI, we believe that," said one of the women of the Indigenous Governing Council (CIG) while reading the pronouncement of Marichuy's election. Motivated through her biggest obstacle, the repression of people who disagree, as well as the incarceration of the councilmen of Querétaro and the assassination of two CNI members. Marichuy continues to persevere and move onward with her movement as the figure spearhead for change in indigenous communities.
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ability however misdiagnosed, doctors were unable to find the cause of her condition or any remedy for it. However, through a three-month use of alternative medicine, Maria's mother was able to walk again. Through seeing the ground breakings innovations traditional healers produced, Maria completed high school for the purpose of dedicating herself to preserving her community by way of studying traditional medicines. After furthering these dreams to become a traditional doctor, she founded the Casa de Salud Calli
Tecolhuacateca Tochan Clinic in 1992. Responsible for the Casa de Salud, Maria began the clinic in hopes for tending to her community with both traditional and alternative medicine. The health center supports the continuity and further development of Nahuan traditional indigenous medicine, an objective supported for decades by the University of Guadalajara.
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they say that everything is fine. We’ve seen that’s not true". By furthering focusing on the dangers threatening indigenous land, she continues by saying "What we get when we plead is jail, death, and contamination from large projects that don’t benefit anyone in the pueblos.” She lastly concluded her speech by the following statement "Indigenous people are ready to fight, and we won’t stop. We will work together to construct a new Mexico from below, and to destroy this grand capitalist system that is destroying us.” Maria's run for presidency is a historic movement as it focuses on the massive destruction of capitalist system that fails to protect the environment and social justice system while also failing to address the concerns of women and indigenous communities.
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characteristics. It’s not an essentialist or ethnic proposal. The proposal addresses all the peoples of Mexico, including the one of the majority nationality, that world where we all fit." CNI'S collaboration with Maria developed through a common goal that a new and improved Mexico would emerge as the current version during the election did not favor the working class and the people of communities. According to both. members of the organization and Maria herself, by running in the presidency they hope not to win but to address and give voice to those who have no voice. By electing
Marichuy to the presential run they hope to make an "indigenous, feminist perspective a part of Mexico’s national presidential debate.
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diseases such as fear, fright, heatwaves and weakness. Through seeing these alternative forms of medicine. Maria followed their path and became a traditional medicine healer. Her reasoning for following this path was because she felt her knowledge and understanding of the ways in which plants can aid the sick would be beneficial to help those in her community who were unable to afford medicine from the government.
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CNI's decision is also seen as a proposal for all
Mexicans. "It’s an inclusive proposal, not only of the indigenous and with the indigenous, which makes the vindications of all the exploited, oppressed and discriminated of the earth its own, regardless of their ethnic or national origins and cultural
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Mexican state and its electoral politics, the Zapatistas announced in December 2016 their plans to elect a female spokesperson to represent the indigenous community as a presidential candidate. On May 28, 2017, Marichuy was elected by the National Indigenous
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In 1978, motivated by her mother's loss of mobility from the waist down, Martinez sought medical attention from traditional healers in her community who were able to return her mother's ability to walk. Her mother indued three years of treatments by specialized doctors to help her mother regain her
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At the Zocalo parade in Oaxaca, Maria took the stage to deliver a speech to the
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Maria's integration to traditional and alternative medicine as a healing tool began with her observations of the older women in her community that used herbalism as a form of healing. She saw women in her community such as her aunts and grandmothers use these different forms of medicine to treat
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In May 2015, the Tuxpan
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Marichuy has further stated, "as is the custom in our peoples, surrendering, selling out or giving up is not an option and we will redouble efforts to collect the citizen support required to figure as an independent candidate to the presidency of the
Republic on the 2018 electoral ballot."
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about the situation of indigenous women nationwide. At that time, lawmakers directly and indirectly responsible for indigenous human rights violations in Mexico decided not to attend.
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