Guerrero State, Mexico: Multiple International Cities of Peace
We welcome the Liaisons and Peace Teams of official International Cities of Peace in Guerrero State, Mexico. Each municipality has a legacy of peacebuilding, finding solutions to challenges and facing challenges to come. Guerrero State is officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Guerrero). It is one of the 32 states that comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. Guerrero is divided in 81 municipalities and its capital city is Chilpancingo and its largest city is Acapulco.
Each International City of Peace in Guerrero has a Liaison, or peace leader, who provides two-way communication between the community and the association of International Cities of Peace. Guerrero is not yet a State of Peace because it does not have a Peace “department” — a commission, ministry or such — at the State level., but peace leaders in the State are working on that possibility.
GUERRERO, MEXICO: INTERNATIONAL CITIES OF PEACE
• Zihuatanejo — Liaison Ms. Wendy Carbajal Sotelo
• Chilpancingo — Liaison Ms. Gisela Valenza Rodriguez
• Benítez — Liaison Ms. María Janitzi Carbajal Cardenas
• Petatlán — Liaison Elsa Angélica Tamayo Pineda
Note: Introduction page with information primarily at the time of joining International Cities of Peace. For updates, please contact the liaison.
Members of the United Nations Delegation from Guerrero State with Representatives from International Cities of Peace in 2022.
Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico: International City of Peace
Liaison Ms. Wendy Carbajal Sotelo
We welcome the citizens and leaders of Zihuatanejo, Mexico: City of Peace. The Zihuatanejo Peace Team, directed by Wendy Carbal, is dedicated to expanding the safety, prosperity, and quality of life for all people of the Guerrero State. The town of Zihuatanejo is the seat of the municipality of Zihuatanejo de Azueta and as such is the governmental authority for approximately 416 communities, with a total population of 104,609 as of 2005, and an area of 1,921.5 km2 (741.9 sq mi). There are small indigenous communities in the municipality which speak Nahuatl and Tlapaneco.
The Zihuatanejo Peace Committee is very active in planning workshops and activities for youth and young adults. This was the inaugural celebration in 2016 as the first City of Peace in Guerrero.
Chilpancingo: , Guerrero, Mexico: International City of Peace
Liaison Ms. Gisela Valenza Rodriguez
We welcome Gisela Valenzo Rodriguez, with mentor Wendy Carbajal Sotelo and the citizens of Chilpancingo, Guerrero as they establish their community as an International City of Peace. The group presented the Proclamation from the City to representatives of ICP at United Nations headquarters in September, 2019 on International Day of Peace. The Chilpancingo for Peace Committee has an extensive mission, vision, and goals for increasing the safety, prosperity, and quality of life of their community.
Benítez, Guerrero, Mexico: International City of Peace
Liaison Ms. María Janitzi Carbajal Cardenas
We welcome the citizens of Benítez in the State of Guerrero as an International City of Peace, beginning in September, 2022. Liaison Ms. Maria Janitzi Carbajal Cardenas will be the two-way communication link between ICP Central and Benétez City of Peace. Coyuca de Benítez is one of the 81 municipalities of Guerrero, in south-western Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Coyuca de Benítez.
Petatlán, Guerrero, Mexico: International City of Peace
Liaison Elsa Angélica Tamayo Pineda brings to our network Petatlán, a small Mexican town located in the Costa Grande region of the state of Guerrero. Ms. Tamaya and the Petatlán Team is working “to promote the culture of peace, collaborating with the State and Municipal governments in coordination with organizations and civil society through educational, cultural, social, sports and protection activities.”
Elsa is a lawyer and currently works at the Technological University of the Costa Grande de Guerrero. She and Petatlán join Wendy Carbajal Sotelo of Zhuatenejo, Gisela Valenzo Rodríguez of Chilpancingo, and Janitzi Carbajal Cárdenas of the Coyuca Committee, the other three leaders of the Commité de Paz Del Estatado de Guerrero, who are courageous and committed to bringing strong peacebuilding to Mexico.
MORE ABOUT THE LIAISONS
Zihuatanejo — Liaison Ms. Wendy Carbajal Sotelo
Chilpancingo — Liaison Ms. Gisela Valenza Rodriguez
Gisela Valenzo Rodriguez was born in the city and port of Zihuatanejo de Azueta on October 8, 1999.
She has been participating in political-electoral issues since the age of 14, and is passionate about public life and motivated to venture into the democracy of her Municipality and State. Gisela began to study for a degree in Government and Public Management at the Autonomous University of Guerrero in the capital city of Chilpancingo in 2017.
She has trained in leadership workshops, gender parity courses, human rights and responsible citizen participation.
Gisela has attended various events and projects in democratic and political fields, as well as in social assistance volunteers and training for other young people from vulnerable groups.
Guerrerense of heart and citizen of action, she is committed to the well-being of her Municipality, State and Country that “has given me so much, convinced that young people and women have the capacity to change what we do not like, beyond ideologies and partisan colors.”
Benítez — Liaison Ms. María Janitzi Carbajal Cardenas
Lic. In preschool education.
Since 2014 of the NETWORK OF WOMEN WORKING FOR THE COMMON GOOD S.P.P.R.L. Carrying out accompaniment to peasant and rancher women from the communities of the upper part or sierra of the municipality.
She is the founder of the Civil Association “Women for Hope Working with Equity”, which fights for the defense of the elimination of violence against women, and the integral social participation of women in the public affairs of the municipality. Likewise and with the aim of promoting a training space for the construction of collaborative leadership for women by founding the first generation of the training school for women’s leadership, in coordination with the A.C “Collective transformation with equity” and Vision Group university.
Likewise, through the civil association “Women for Hope Working with Equity” campaigns have been carried out to collect and donate clothing, blankets, toys and necessary items as community aid that are taken to the most vulnerable families in communities with difficult access. access to the municipality of Coyuca de Benítez.Currently founder and Director of the Peace Committee of Coyuca de Benítez
Made up of civil associations, groups and citizen activists who work in different social fields such as: Education, religion, preservation and conservation of the environment, gender equality and equity, disability, sports, human rights, LGBTQ Y +.
With the main objective of directing the new generations to a peaceful and friendly society that achieves empathy, tolerance and love for others, opening the way to conflict resolution; through individual and collective peace, attached to our work agenda focused on three of the seventeen SDGs of the 2030 agenda.
• Petatlán — Information on Liaison to come
CONTACT INFORMATION
To contact or support this initiative:
• Zihuatanejo — Liaison Ms. Wendy Carbajal Sotelo
zihuatanejo.comitedepaz@gmail.com
• Chilpancingo — Liaison Ms. Gisela Valenza Rodriguez
• Benétez — Liaison Ms. María Janitzi Carbajal Cardenas
• Petatlán — Information to come
ABOUT GUERRERO STATE, MEXICO (from Wikipedia)
Guerrero, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero, is one of the 32 states that comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 81 municipalities and its capital city is Chilpancingo and its largest city is Acapulco. It is located in Southwestern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Michoacán to the north and west, the State of Mexico and Morelos to the north, Puebla to the northeast and Oaxaca to the east. In addition to the capital city, the state’s largest cities include Acapulco, Petatlán, Ciudad Altamirano, Taxco, Iguala, Ixtapa, Zihuatanejo, and Santo Domingo. Today, it is home to a number of indigenous communities, including the Nahuas, Mixtecs, Tlapanecs, Amuzgos, and formerly Cuitlatecs. It is also home to communities of Afro-Mexicans in the Costa Chica region.
The state was named after Vicente Guerrero, one of the most prominent leaders in the Mexican War of Independence and the second President of Mexico.[9] It is the only Mexican state named after a president. The modern entity did not exist until 1849, when it was carved out of territories from the states of Mexico, Puebla, and Michoacán.
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