Mixtec peoples facing Covid-19. : Reflections from the territory

Abstract

The present work intends to reflect on the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Mixtec towns from what was experienced in Chila de las Flores, a small municipality located in the Mixtec lowlands of Puebla. Chila is the place where I am originally from and where I returned as soon as the pandemic was declared. From here I will try to analyze the impacts and responses of the Indigenous Peoples in the face of this emergency situation and delve into the actions that some Mixtec communities (Ñuu Savi) took to face the emergency situation. I also analyze the role of the State and extractivist megaprojects in this context. On the one hand, I argue that the pandemic came to further undermine the socioeconomic conditions in which the inhabitants of indigenous peoples find themselves and, on the other hand, to show their capacity to respond to adverse situations in which community organization plays a role. key code. In this context, this document states that the responses to the pandemic have arisen from the peoples themselves and from the relationship that they have built since ancient times with and in their territories.