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Venustiano Carranza, Chiapas

Municipality in Chiapas, Mexico

Venustiano Carranza is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas in southern Mexico.

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 61,341,[1] up from 52,833 as of 2005.[2] It covers an area of 1396.1 km2.

As of 2010, the city of Venustiano Carranza had a population of 15,496.[1] Other than the city of Venustiano Carranza, the municipality had 436 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: San Francisco Pujiltic (7,137), Soyatitán (3,904), Ricardo Flores Magón (3,483), Aguacatenango (3,413), Presidente Echeverría (Laja Tendida) (3,084), classified as urban, and San Francisco (El Calvito) (2,409), Vicente Guerrero (1,997), Paraíso del Grijalva (1,930), Guadalupe Victoria (1,767), Mariano Matamoros (1,566), Miguel Hidalgo (1,178), and El Puerto (1,092), classified as rural.[1]

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At the SFAA Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City colorful textiles from Chiapas, Mexico were on display and for sale. Weaving for Justice would like to thank all those who purchased textiles as well as our friends Jeanne Simonelli and Cristie Barron for transporting the textiles from Las Cruces, New Mexico to the meeting and staffing the table. Below is an abbreviated version of our annual newsletter that came out in March. We also send a monthly email newsletter with updates on our work with weaving collectives in Chiapas. To be added to our list please email us at weavingforjustice@gmail.com

Sophia’s Circle & Weaving for Justice Annual Newsletter

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We open our 2022 newsletter with a photo of a celebration in Chixiltón, Chenalhó, Chiapas, Mexico on March 7th. This photo could come from another universe when compared to the one that opened our 2021 newsletter – an empty c

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The idea was to drive to Aguacatenango which is about thirty minutes beyond the pottery village of Amantenango del Valle. We were a good hour or so beyond San Cristobal de Las Casas. Few tourists come in this direction.

The church at Aguacatenango, Venustiano Carranza

The idea was to pull up at the church, park the van, gather under the big tree and wait. Perhaps some of the village women would show up with their beautiful embroidered blouses to sell.

Join us for the 2019 Chiapas Textile Study Tour.

I did this with our group last year. I hoped the serendipity would repeat. It was fun meeting local women whose skillful sewing resulted in blouses covered in intricate needlework. Within five minutes, perhaps thirty or forty women clustered around us. Word spreads fast in a small pueblo.

A gathering of women embroiderers. Photo by Carol Lynne Estes

This year was a special treat. Not only was it a glorious day, the workmanship was especially fine.

A particularly fine blouse with finished seams, all hand-stitched

Our only problem was that mos

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