Since March of this year, there has been an ongoing struggle against a landfill in Cholula, Puebla, that is poisoning the lands and waters of the local communities. An encampment and barricades organized by the Indigenous Nahua people of the Cholulteca region have kept in shuttered for the past three months, despite violent and massive police attacks.
On May 14, 34 communities from the region gathered in the First Assembly of the Cholulteca Peoples and agreed upon a "Decree" that banned the landfill and any other "project of death" in their territory.
From a piece analyzing these events:
"The way in which the First Assembly of the Cholulteca Peoples was organized, the closure Decree itself is like rain in a drought, they are paths in the midst of an arid and increasingly catastrophic panorama:
"The Decree is an exercise of the peoples creating their own law. It is a step that they weave between communities, not an occurrence of a few speaking on behalf of no one, it is a collective, communitarian step, which alludes 'to the human rights inherent to our existence as peoples, which may or may not have recognition in national and international laws.' That is to say, with great wisdom they make it clear that what is good or bad for the peoples is not what national law or international law say or do not say, but what the peoples consider as such. That is to say, it should be according to the peoples, not according to those above who apply the law in a discretionary and differentiated manner."
https://desinformemonos.org/el-autogobierno-de-los-pueblos-cholultecas-frente-al-ecocidio/