12/10/2025 FTS 02.30 Indigenous communities in the Salvador held the festival called ´´Roots´´, a way to preserve traditional agriculture with out chemical treatment.
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00:00On the eve of Resistance Day, indigenous communities held a festival called Roots,
00:05a popular fair that highlighted the need to preserve traditional agriculture in order to guarantee food sovereignty.
00:12A correspondent, Roberto Bupresa, has more.
00:18Natizalco is one of the few localities with an indigenous population.
00:22This Saturday, its inhabitants gathered to show the world their ability to cultivate the land without damaging it.
00:27These products, for example, are made from the seeds of a native tree called Ojo.
00:36We cook it with ashes, just like our grandparents did, and with that we can make dishes as tortillas, tamales, pupaces, enchiladas, cakes, and incorporate it into our daily diet.
00:45But we have a dehydration process for 22 or 30 days directly in the sun, and when it is dry, we roast it, grind it, and with that we can make a ground-out juice, which is like a flour, and with that we can make bread, cookies, desserts, and some drinks like horchata.
01:05These small-scale producers use traditional methods without chemicals that poison the soil, water, and air, but they are also trained to grow their own food and guarantee food sovereignty, which is increasingly at risk.
01:23As indigenous people, we do it as our grandmothers taught us.
01:36First, we preserve the native seed, because we know that native seeds are the best seeds that human beings should have.
01:41And the food we have to grow is, first and foremost, not to pollute our mother earth, and to sow the best for our family.
01:57In these times of climate crisis and environmental damage, this is where we need to look back to understand and comprehend our relationship with nature in a different way.
02:04Their products are displayed and sold at these types of fairs, sponsored by the Food Sovereignty Committee, an organization that is aware of the difficult situation faced by indigenous peoples.
02:24Unfortunately, this current administration has been in power for six years now, and we have not seen any real progress in developing agriculture for these people, right?
02:32Rather, what you are seeing is perhaps the maintenance of a certain level of food security without a guarantee for Salvadorans, as to where this product comes from.
02:51With this ritual, they gave thanks to the earth, water, sun, and wind, and as they do every year, they denounced neglect and isolation.
02:59Similar events are held over the weekend in various locations across the country.
03:07The activities carried out as part of Resistance Day are more than just a commemoration.
03:11They are a call to governments and societies to take into account indigenous peoples who have traditionally been ignored.
03:19Roberto Hugo Presa, Telesur, Nahuizalco, El Salvador.
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