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A visit to Santa Maria de Yaviche
Previously, eight neighboring villages lived in conviviality and had organized through Pueblos Unidos del Rincon de Sierra Juarez. Together they demanded that the government build a road to the numerous mountain villages. Pueblos Unidos had organized the project to develop a bus cooperative for transportation from the communities to the city. The new president wanted to get rid of Pueblos Unidos and attempted to compel Yaviche to support his movement. Meanwhile, the members of the community in this little mountain village decided to organize and form a free municipal agency during the year of 2001. They did so with the support of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca (CIPO).

written by Johanne Pelletier and Francis Murchison
june 7th, 2004, Santa Maria de Yaviche, Sierra Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico