Mushrooms and revolution
. After the 2011 insurgency, the town’s transformation took place gradually around 189 bonfires scattered across every block and street corner. At first, theThroughout the first year of the movement, Huaroco came home every weekend from Morelia, where she’d moved for university.
“People would be humiliated for speaking Tarasco when they left town,” says Josefina Estrada Velazquez, 64, one of the 15 women who led the April 15 insurgency. “They didn’t want to be Purhépecha.” Some people from smaller towns where Purhépecha remains the first language remember coming to Cherán for secondary school and being mocked for using the language at all.
Imelda Campos Sebastián, 65, also known as Doña Mela, is widely regarded as Cherán’s finest traditional cook and mostly uses ingredients from her own garden. Campos also runs a weekly radio program at the local station and is involved with community programs that seek to promote the rescue and conservation of traditional Purhépecha values.
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