Zapatistas Back Indigenous Jalisco Woman to Run for Mexico’s Presidency The Associated Press
go to original May 29, 2017

An Indigenous Woman Is Now Standing for President of Mexico (teleSUR English)

A council of Mexican indigenous groups backed by the Zapatista rebels has selected a Nahua Indian woman as the country’s first indigenous female presidential candidate.

The Indigenous Government Council selected Maria de Jesus Patricio to run in the 2018 election, issuing a statement Sunday saying that “we will seek to put her name on the ballot.” Because the council is not a registered political party, it may need signatures to get Patricio on the ballot. The council is calling for an “anti-capitalist and honest” government, saying: “We don’t seek to administer power; we seek to dismantle it.”

Local media describe Patricio as a traditional healer from the western state of Jalisco. The Zapatistas led a brief armed uprising for Indian rights in 1994, but have stayed out of electoral politics.

See the original at The Indian Express

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