The Huichol and Pesticides - Publications

Epidemiological Study
In 2002 the Huichols & Pesticides published the study Pesticides, tobacco, and health: the case of Huichol and mestizo field workers, and ejidatarios in Nayarit, Mexico. (251 pages) This publication examines the effects of exposure to organophosphates and carbamates among tobacco farmers in Nayarit. 448 people participated in the study (161 were migrant indigenous field workers of the Wixárika (Huichol) community). The study also contains data on child labor in tobacco agriculture, the prevailing malnutrition among field workers in the area... See Executive Summary

Training Workshop about the Risks of Pesticide Use
Patricia Díaz-Romo y Samuel Salinas Álvarez: Training workshop about risks in pesticide use. (49 pages; pdf 914 kb), in: Rights of Indigenous Communities: experiences, documents, and methodologies. Mexico: Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, 2000. 282 pages. This workshop, for human rights promoters working in rural settings, is aimed at promoting the Right-to-Know in order to protect indigenous peoples' health and to prevent the consequences of toxic agrochemicals. (49 pages; pdf 914 kb)

Press Archive
In 1999 Huichols & Pesticides published an extensive collection of articles regarding pesticides between 1991 and 1998. A second edition, in 2002, extended the coverage to the year 2000. Hundreds of articles from the Mexican and international press on pesticides in Mexico, pesticides and Huichols, pesticides in Sinaloa, the explosion of the TEKCHEM pesticide factory and much more.

First Edition 1991-1998 - Prologue , Index
Second Edition 1991-2000 - Prologue , Index - The Second Edition is available here

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Globalization, Migration and Child Labour
Sacred Smoke and Silent Killer
Abya Yala
Stolen Childhoods
Tobacco Fields of Nayarit