Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Mexican ranchers and indigenous people urge government to solve land conflict

Audelina Villagrana has run her ranch in Mexico's Western Sierra Madre mountains on her own since the death of her husband 23 years ago, herding livestock, hiring local Huichol people and even raising a young Huichol boy like a son.

Now she and other ranchers are locked in tense confrontation with their indigenous neighbors over land that has been in contention for centuries. A series of recent legal decisions has brought the dispute to a boiling point.

"It's a strange situation, when on the one hand I share my home with them, and on the other, they're . . .

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