Abstract

MORENO ARRIBA, Jesús. The municipality of Pajapan in the Sierra of Santa Marta (Veracruz, Mexico): a case of indigenous resistance in defense of territory and the natural resources for sustainability of indigenous peoples of the Gran Caribe. memorias [online]. 2015, n.26, pp.65-119. ISSN 1794-8886.  https://doi.org/10.14482/memor.26.7423.

The municipality of Pajapan, in the Sierra of Santa Marta (Veracruz, Mexico), represents a paradigm case in the struggle for the defense of the communal lands of the peasant indigenous communi/es in the Gran Caribe, who use different mechanisms of resistance. Furthermore, by implementing a qualitative research methodology and going through the literature and a documentary research of the subject of study, this research has identified and analyzed various natural resources management projects in the geographic environment the Pajapan and in the Sierra of Santa Marta. These emerging nongovernmental experiences are presented as a possible development alternative model destined to help improve the precarious ecological, demographic and socioeconomic situation of the tropical territories and the Mesoamerican indigenous peoples of the Gran Caribe.

Keywords : Mexico; Veracruz; indigenous peoples; communal lands; natural resources; resistance; sustainability.

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