Presidential decree protects sacred sites
August 9, on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador signed a decree that “recognizes, protects, preserves and safeguards” the sacred places and sites, as well as the pilgrimage routes, of the Huichol (Wixárika), Cora, Tepehuano and Mexicanero peoples in the states of Jalisco, Nayarit, Durango and San Luis Potosi.