Indigenous Youth to U.N. -- Mexico's Desert is a Life Giver, Now Exploited for Lithium

 

Indigenous Youth to U.N. -- Mexico's Desert is a Life Giver, Now Exploited for Lithium 

"They say there is nothing in the desert, but we are in the desert, and we have sowed life there."

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 11, 2025

NEW YORK -- An Indigenous youth from Mexico describes the beauty of life on the land when the rains come, and how the World Bank and the international financial system exploit Indigenous Peoples, pushing them off their land for lithium and cattle industries.

"I was raised in Mexico, in a land where people say nothing grows, a semi-desert."

"The rains when they do come show us the power of the cycle of life," an Indigenous youth told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Peru's Muzzle Law Follows Murder of 60 Indigenous Peoples: Peru Extinguishing Rights and Life

 

(ONAMIAP) National Organization of Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Women of Peru. U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 2025. Screenshot Censored News.

Peru's Muzzle Law Follows Murder of 60 Indigenous Peoples: Peru Extinguishing Rights and Life

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 11, 2025

NEW YORK -- Peru's government enacted a muzzle law as it seeks to cover-up the murder of 60 Indigenous Peoples who struggled to defend their rights. The law will leave victims of massacres defenseless and ensure impunity for the government, a representative of Indigenous Women in the Andes and Amazon told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

"In Peru, we're actually moving backward," said the representative, pointing out Peru's failure to implement international standards that protect Indigenous peoples.

"We are facing a government where a dictatorship is being imposed that seeks to make disappear Indigenous Peoples. This government is responsible for over 60 Indigenous brothers and sisters killed."