CENACED y SOCPINDA fortalecerán la respuesta humanitaria y la resiliencia comunitaria en Oaxaca y Guerrero

• Ante los desastres naturales, el Centro Nacional de Apoyo para Contingencias Epidemiológicas y Desastres, A.C. (CENACED) se compromete con la responsabilidad de la supervivencia y salud de las personas
• El CENACED coadyuva en el fomento de una Cultura de Prevención que permita fortalecer la capacidad de gestión de los sectores público, privado, social y académico, en la respuesta a las diferentes etapas de un desastre y las posteriores contingencias epidemiológicas, así como, la atención de manera expedita de las demandas y necesidades de la población afectada, para lograr su subsistencia, reconstruir el tejido social y obtener un mínimo de bienestar.

Con el firme propósito de fortalecer la Capacidad de Respuesta ante emergencias y construir comunidades más resilientes, el pasado viernes 2 de mayo de 2025, en las instalaciones del Archivo General del Estado de Oaxaca, se llevó a cabo la ceremonia de la firma del Convenio de Hermanamiento y Colaboración entre el CENACED y la Organización para el Desarrollo Social y Productivo de los Pueblos Indígenas y Comunidades Afrodescendientes (SOCPINDA).

El principal objetivo de este convenio es formalizar la colaboración entre ambas organizaciones, estableciendo a SOCPINDA como aliada estratégica de CENACED en los estados de Oaxaca y Guerrero. En caso de cualquier emergencia derivada de eventos
climatológicos, hidrometeorológicos, geológicos, socio-antropológicos, SOCPINDA actuará como aliado en campo para la coordinación de esfuerzos en la respuesta humanitaria y la gestión de apoyos directos a las comunidades afectadas.

Además, ambas organizaciones impulsarán la promoción de una Cultura de Prevención, fortaleciendo las capacidades locales en gestión de riesgos, preparación ante emergencias y resiliencia.

A través de este hermanamiento, se establece un marco de colaboración abierto y flexible, que permitirá adaptarse a las necesidades y prioridades que puedan surgir durante su vigencia, asegurando una respuesta humanitaria eficaz, oportuna y coordinada.

Esta alianza representa un paso significativo en la construcción de un México más preparado y solidario ante cualquier adversidad.

 SOCPINDA se ha destacado el arduo compromiso en la Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos de los Pueblos de México, especialmente de los Afromexicanos e Indígenas desde 2011.

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VALORES DE LA ORGANIZACIÓN SOCPINDA

 

✅Dignidad Humana: La base de nuestro trabajo es el respeto intrínseco al valor de cada persona, promoviendo sus derechos fundamentales. Esto se refleja en su apoyo a la defensa de los derechos humanos y en la búsqueda de mejorar las condiciones de subsistencia de la población.

✅Justicia Social: Buscamos una sociedad más equitativa donde se eliminen las barreras de discriminación y se garanticen los derechos para todos, especialmente para los grupos en situación de vulnerabilidad como los pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes, personas con discapacidad, mujeres y la comunidad LGBTIQ+.

 

✅Participación Ciudadana: Fomentamos la organización y la participación activa de la población en la toma de decisiones y en la mejora de sus propias comunidades. Esto se evidencia en su promoción de la participación organizada y en asuntos de interés público.

 

✅Equidad de Género: Reconocemos la necesidad de eliminar las desigualdades basadas en el género y promovemos la igualdad de oportunidades y el pleno ejercicio de los derechos de las mujeres y hombres.

 

✅Inclusión: Nuestro trabajo se dirige a asegurar que todos los grupos de la sociedad, especialmente aquellos históricamente marginados o discriminados, sean incluidos y tengan sus derechos respetados. Esto se ve en nuestro enfoque en pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes, personas con discapacidad y la comunidad LGBTIQ+.

 

✅Sostenibilidad: Mostramos un compromiso con el cuidado del medio ambiente, el aprovechamiento responsable de los recursos naturales y la promoción del desarrollo sustentable para las generaciones presentes y futuras.

 

✅Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural: Valoramos y promovemos el reconocimiento y la difusión de la riqueza cultural de los pueblos y comunidades, especialmente los indígenas y afrodescendientes.

 

✅Colaboración: Buscamos activamente alianzas y convenios con otras organizaciones, instituciones y la sociedad civil en general para ampliar nuestro impacto y lograr nuestros objetivos de manera conjunta.

 

✅Transparencia y Rendición de Cuentas: Tenemos un compromiso con la gestión transparente de los recursos y la rendición de cuentas de cada una de nuestras acciones.

 

✅Solidaridad: Nuestro enfoque en apoyar a grupos vulnerables y promover el bienestar de la comunidad sugiere un valor de solidaridad y compromiso con aquellos que más lo necesitan.

 

✅No Violencia: Promovemos activamente la no violencia, especialmente contra las mujeres y hombres, buscando construir relaciones basadas en el respeto y la paz.

 

Estos valores se entrelazan y se manifiestan en las diversas áreas de acción de Socpinda A.C., guiando sus estrategias y su compromiso con la construcción de una sociedad más justa y equitativa, Sembrando Conciencia y Cosechando Derechos.

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Mexico’s First Liberated City Commemorates Its Founding

The City of Yanga was founded after a group of enslaved Africans, led by Gaspar Yanga, rebelled against colonial rule.

Mexico has spent the year 2021 celebrating its bicentennial: it has been 200 years since the nation won its War of Independence from Spain. About two hundred years before Mexico’s independence, in 1609, the city known today as Yanga, located in the state of Veracruz, won an important battle against the Spanish crown, paving their way to freedom and becoming the first self-liberated and independent town in the Americas.

Yanga is commemorating its history with receipts: it now has digitized and certified copies of the city’s founding documents––paperwork originally received from the Spanish monarchy in 1618, now on display on the ground floor of Yanga’s city hall. To celebrate, Apolinar Crivelli Díaz, the current mayor of Yanga, recently held a ceremony with Leticia López Landero––the mayor of the neighboring city of Córdoba––where they showed off copies of Yanga’s founding papers. These copies of Yanga’s founding documents had been held for years in the archives department in Córdoba, a city initially established as a military base specifically because it was close enough to Yanga to monitor the Black population there.

Located in east-central Mexico, the city of Yanga is named in honor of Gaspar Yanga, an African who was reportedly born in 1545 and who led the rebellion that led to its founding. Yanga, who was said to be a direct descendant of royalty in either Angola or Gabon, was captured and sold into slavery in Mexico, known at the time as New Spain.

Yanga was enslaved on the Nuestra Señora de la Concepción sugarcane plantation, in an area just 93 miles from Veracruz, a major port city originally founded in April of 1519 by Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortés, who designated it La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz (The Rich Town of the True Cross). Veracruz very quickly became an important harbor for African enslavement in Mexico. Enslaved Africans and Indigenous people were captured and sold there into a brutal caste system that privileged Spanish colonialists.

The historian William H. Dusenberry noted that, in Veracruz, enslaved Africans lived under strict laws in New Spain’s viceroyal system. Those Africans who were able to liberate themselves from slavery were treated even worse:

…the Negro or Negro woman absent from the service of his or her master for four days shall suffer fifty lashes of the whip… and if they should be away more than eight days, for a distance exceeding one league, each of them shall suffer a hundred lashes, iron fetters weighing twelve pounds shall be tied to their feet with a rope, which they shall carry for two months and shall not take off under pain of two hundred lashes for the first offense; and for the second, each shall take two hundred lashes and shall not take the weights off for four months.

Yanga would be only one of many enslaved Africans to rebel against this horrific slave system.

Yanga’s rebellion, in the year 1570, was comprised of several hundred enslaved Africans, who, once free, fled to shelter near the summit of the Veracruz mountains. Roaming from Cofre de Perote to the Sierra de Zongolica and to the highest mountain in Mexico, the Pico de Orizaba, the self-emancipated rebels established a palenque—a small town––where they could live on their own. For 30 years the Yanguícos harvested their own foods (reportedly sweet potatoes, sugar cane, tobacco, beans, chile, squash, and corn) and raised livestock. Similar to other groups who roamed the highlands, they frequently used machetes and sticks to raid supplies from passing Spanish caravans.

Locals would transport goods in caravans that traveled from the Veracruz port to Mexico City. But as African and Indigenous people fled slavery and sought refuge in the surrounding mountain range, they took to raiding those caravans. These Yanguícos were a threat to the viceroyal system’s colonial order. In 1609, when a rumor started circulating that the Yanguícos were planning to overthrow local Spanish authorities in the neighboring towns and appoint Yanga as the king, the Spanish Crown’s Viceroy Luis de Velasco sent a battalion of a few hundred troops to subdue them. Both the Yanguícos and Spanish suffered serious casualties during the ensuing battles, but Yanga and his compatriots could not be defeated. Yanga ultimately negotiated a ceasefire: the Spanish Crown consented to a treaty that in 1618 allowed the Yanguícos to establish their own government and live in peace.

The triumph of Yanga serves as an inspiration for the ever-growing Afro-Mexican movement.

In an 11-point agreement, Yanga, as leader of the rebellion, negotiated a peace settlement with the Catholic priest, Alonso de Benavides, and Captain Manuel Carrillo, which granted the Yanguícos freedom as long as they did not allow other fugitives from slavery to join their ranks. Although the Spanish Crown tried to back out of this peace treaty several times, it remained in effect until Mexico gained independence in 1821.

Since 1976, Yanga has held “Festival of Negritude,” and “Primer Pueblo Libre de las Américas” (Festival of the First Free Pueblo in America) celebrations commemorating the towns’ founding.

The triumph of Yanga serves as an inspiration for the ever-growing Afro-Mexican movement: Yanga’s achievement was impactful—and many scholars of Black history in the Americas record it as a seminal event in the story of how enslaved Africans freed themselves from captivity.

Afro-Mexican activists, who are today fighting for wider recognition of the 2.5 million people who self-described as Afro-Mexican or Afro descendant in the 2020 Census, turn to the image of Yanga as a model for political activism. “Yanga, the prince, is considered the founder of America’s first Free People,” enthused Isidro Ramírez López, president of the Afro-Mexican organization,  Socpinda. “In 2017, the Socpinda AC organization established the “Prince Yanga” School for the Training of Afro-descendant Social Leaders in his honor.”

Some Mexicans have even lauded Yanga as a national hero, a figure to be admired as the nation recalls the independence struggles that pushed Mexico to its national liberation. But Sagrario Cruz-Carretero, professor of anthropology at the University of Veracruz, cautions that Yanga has only been associated with the Mexican independence movement by the nation’s intellectual elite. “Yanga is mainly seen as a symbol for those of us in the Afro Mexican movement,” she said. “In Mexico itself, your average Mexican most likely does not know who Yanga was.”

The artist Frida Kahlo also taught painting to a politically active group of muralists known as Los Fridos, who she encouraged to venture to areas like Veracruz, says Dr. Cruz-Carretero:

Los Fridos came to Xalapa––here where I live in Veracruz––and they were the ones who painted the large majority of the murals here in Xalapa which have Yanga in them. These were the first images of Yanga in murals, and they represented him as a leader. But this was thanks to Los Fridos––and, in fact, the actual statue of Yanga, in the town of Yanga, was sculpted by one of Los Fridos, his name was Erasmo Vásquez Lendechy. But, to this day, the government of Mexico has not included lessons about Yanga for our children, in our schools.

The name of the municipality has changed over time: first it was called San Lorenzo de los Negros, then San Lorenzo de Cerralvo, and, finally, Yanga, in honor of its founder. Those who visit the UNESCO Slave Route project-designated city will encounter the Vásquez Lendechy statue of Gaspar Yanga in the town square. It depicts a large, muscular man, wielding a machete: an African who has broken the chains of slavery.

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Será un Encuentro del Pueblo Afromexicano y de los Pueblos Indígenas, realizaremos mesas de trabajo, feria, resultados de la Escuela de Líderes Sociales Afrodescendientes "Príncipe Yanga". Fortaleceremos las acciones a favor de los Derechos de nuestros pueblos del 24 al 25 de Noviembre de 2021.

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