This Informative and Solidarity Notebook aims to share with the international community the mirrors of resistance and rebellion, the experience of struggle of Mexican indigenous peoples organized within the National Indigenous Congress and the Indigenous Governing Council. Such resistances, present in di erent regions of Mexico, are the clearest expression of the defense of the territory and the political, legal and cultural reconstitution of the indigenous peoples.

We address our comrades of international solidarity: activists and solidarity organizations; but also to researchers, students and people interested in knowing the struggle that indigenous peoples undertake against the social and environmental barbarism perpetuated by neoliberal capitalism in Mexico. That is, we address anyone who, from its specific context, struggles against capitalism, neoliberalism and the defense of humanity.

The economic resources obtained from the sale of this booklet will provide financial support to the National Indigenous Congress, but this objective is part of a larger one: to present a broad description of some of it´s organizational processes against capitalism. Thus, this booklet contains five articles, the first of which sets out the causes and relevance of the National Indigenous Congress, which is one of the various expressions of organization and unity of indigenous peoples in Mexico.

The following articles deal with particular cases, beginning with the struggle of the Nahuas of Ostula, on the Paci c coast of the state of Michoacán. The third and fourth articles address the struggle of the Nahua people of Tlanixco, on the slopes of the Xinantécatl volcano (also known as Nevado de Toluca), and the struggle of the Otomí community of Huitzizilapan, both in the State of Mexico. Finally, in the fth article, we present the case of the Totonac people whose territory is located in portions of the states of Veracruz and Puebla, in the east, and Oaxaca, in the southwest of our country.