Wirikuta: Birthplace of the Sun and the Corporate Moral Imperative?
By: James Hudson, Managing Editor Deep within the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range of central western Mexico—an arid region of the vast country’s interior—a ferocious, grass-roots battle to preserve the ancestral home of the Huichol Indians from the illegal silver mining operations of North American companies rages with abandon.[1] The Huichol people have for centuries considered Wirikuta, a sprawling landscape within the mountains, as the origin of the world and the birthplace of the Sun.[2] In addition to its most-holy…