Food Fight! All Lives Matter!
Miguel Angel Guzmán Michel
Indigenous Mexican Food and Political Activist,
Writer, Poet, Law Professor
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Born the 18th of July 1964 in Tlatelolco in the
Federal District of Mexico, Miguel Angel Guzman lived all his childhood, in a
humble house in the village of Huexotla,
at Texcoco, in the state of Mexico.
He is one of three children born to Alejo Guzman Gonzalez, union organizer of indigenous
descent and descendant of the king of the Tépanèque people, Netzahualcóyotl.
His mother was Maria Guadalupe Michel Ramos, originally from the Mexican state
of Jalisco and a descendant of a family that had participated in the « Cristerra
War, » an armed conflict from 1926 to 1929 between the government and
Presbyterian and Catholic religious communities who were resisting the
application of legislation that was applying Catholic law to all Mexicans.
He did his primary education in Huexotla and his high school at Ecole
Préparatoire de Texcoco, in the state of Mexico. He studied law à l’Université Autonome Métropolitaine.
Currently, he is working with the committee to
support a revolution (le Comité d’aide aux luttes en Amérique Latine) in Latin
America which he founded which works with students and peasants. He also
founded an office of advocates to take
on popular causes for the people in the capital of the country.
He also works on numerous food and agriculture
issues critical to the health and welfare of the Mexican people including
regaining and maintaining indigenous territories, transgenic corn, the rising
prices of food staples while salaries and lively hoods lower.
In 1985, following the
terrible earthquake in the capital city of Mexico he particiapted with rescue
brigades to find survivors and bring them to help.
He is currently
working against the government’s policies that segregate people of indigenous
descent and other minorities in Mexico. He also works extensively with the
spiritual organization « Société du
Divin Visage » which seeks to safeguard indigenous culture.
In 1992, he
incorporated the Office Agriculture of San Luis Potosí. He is also a law professor at
the Université Autonome de San Luis Potosí, Campus Huastèque. He has also
founded many movements in Huastèque region
of Mexico to defend the rights of indigenous peoples and minorites on ethnic,
ideology and sexual preference grounds.
He is a founder of
the Mouvement de Libération Nationale and member of the School Amawtique of
Mexico which is an alliance of a number of organizations that defend the rights
of indgenous peoples and ethic minorities On the American continents and in the
Carribean.
He has run for
political office several times but has not yet been elected. He consults with
leftist political parties in Mexico. He
also represents various leftist unions in Mexico.
He is a writer and
poet and lover of literature, music and the arts He also defends ecology and
the occult sciences. .
Responsibilities
Représentant de la
Société du Divin Visage.
Représentant du
Front Populaire Francisco Villa, San Luis Potosí.
Représentant du
Mouvement de Libération Nationale.
Représentant et
consultant de plusieurs syndicats.
Legal Consultant for the Nation Xi-Iuy, Nation Téenek and several Nahuatl communities,
all indigenous Mexican peoples.
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