Английская Википедия:Enriqueta Medellín

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Enriqueta Medellín (10 December 1948 – 6 January 2022) was a Mexican surgeon and environmentalist. Raised in Mexico City, from a young age she participated in projects to clean up the city and became interested in the links between disease and the environment. She earned a degree as a medical surgeon from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and specialized in human genetics. She also studied environmental education and management.

After participating in humanitarian aid projects following the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, she and her extended family relocated to Aguascalientes City in 1987, where she worked as a surgeon while becoming known for environmental activism. Along with her mother and other activists, she founded the association Шаблон:Lang (Ecological Consciousness) in 1992. This group of activists carried out the first recycling project in the state and introduced numerous projects to raise awareness on waste, teach people about preserving the environment, and protest against developmental projects that caused harm to the environment. She was involved at the local, state, national, and international levels in the creation of policy to protect ecosystems.

Medellín was the first person to be awarded the state prize for Environmental Merit in 2006 and received Mexico's highest honor for environmentalists, the Шаблон:Lang (Ecological Merit Award) in 2012. In 2020, she received the Шаблон:Lang (Golden Biotope) from the National College of Ecological Doctors and the following year was granted the Aguascaliente Prize in the Clear Water category. The state's ecological and tree replenishment facility was renamed as the Queta Medellín Ecological Center in 2021. At the time of her death in 2022, Medellín was one of the most prominent environmental activists in the central region of Mexico. Posthumously, the municipality of Aguascalientes created the Enriqueta Medellín Prize in her honor to mark contributions by individuals and organizations who have made exemplary efforts to better the community and environment.

Early life and education

María Enriqueta Medellín Legorreta was born on 10 December 1948 in Mexico City to Enriqueta Legorreta López and Mario Medellín Ocádiz and was baptized two days later in the San Cosme Parish Catholic Church.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Familiarly known as Queta,Шаблон:Sfn she had an older brother, Mario, who is a musician, and three younger siblings, Alejandro Claudio, Juan, and Rodrigo, a biologist. Her father was an accountant and founder of an ice cream factory, while her mother was an opera singer and activist, who led singers to strike against the Palacio de Bellas Artes.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Legorreta also volunteered for the Шаблон:Lang (Ecological Association of Coyoacán) and involved her children in activities to clean up the Шаблон:Lang (Royal Park of San Lucas) in the borough of Coyoacán.Шаблон:Sfn The death of Medellín's brother Juan in 1969 from cancer sparked Medellín's curiosity in the relationship between disease and the environment.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Medellín graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) as a medical surgeon, and earned her PhD in clinical human genetics.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She also studied environmental education and management.Шаблон:Sfn She married Javier López de la Peña, a cardiologist, and they had two children.Шаблон:Sfn Although she professionally worked as a surgeon, Medellín became known for her environmental activism.Шаблон:Sfn The 1985 Mexico City earthquake caused devastation that authorities were unable to adequately address and the family began organizing soup kitchens, gathering medical supplies, and providing shortwave radio services to help their neighbors.Шаблон:Sfn Longing for a better quality of life, the extended family relocated in 1987 to Aguascalientes City.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Career

Arriving in the State of Aguascalientes, the family searched for an environmental association and joined in the successful fight to stop development in the Шаблон:Lang (Forest Subdivision) and instead create a park on the land. As there was no other group of environmentalists in the state at that time, Enriqueta Legorreta, Medellín's mother, issued an invitation to form an association on the radio station of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes. Academics and other concerned citizens joined together to start an ecological group.Шаблон:Sfn They planned a recycling event at a local church, the Шаблон:Lang (Temple of Sorrows), and Legorreta made a further radio broadcast urging citizens to help.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn To encourage participation, a recycling company agreed to take the waste and the city donated saplings to exchange for waste and promote an urban reforestation program.Шаблон:Sfn

Three-quarter photo of a woman in a black and white scoop-neck t-shirt with a floral print wearing silver earrings and a silver necklace.
Medellín in 2012

Based on the success of that recycling effort, in 1992 the association Шаблон:Lang (Ecological Consciousness) was co-founded by Legorreta, Medellín, Abraham de Alba, Humberto Tenorio, and others.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The following year, they initiated a clean-up along the San Pedro River. Those initial efforts soon led to recycling collection centers being established in the area's shopping malls in 1994.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Not all of the programs went smoothly. In 1995, when protesting construction of a Texas Instruments facility in a residential neighborhood, Medellín became the target of harassment. She personally received threats and her family members and home were photographed by people in favor of the construction.Шаблон:Sfn In conjunction with public schools and colleges, scouting organizations, and others, in 1999 she launched the campaign Шаблон:Lang (A Notebook for Your Notebook).Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The idea behind the program was to collect textbooks and notebooks at the end of the school year and redistribute the books and unused paper, rebound into new notebooks, for use in rural schools.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The campaign ran for fifteen years and was estimated to have benefited 10,000 students.Шаблон:Sfn

Medellín served on Semarnat's Advisory Council for Sustainable Development, as the first representative from Aguascalientes. She was elected president of the Western Central Regional Council, which coordinates the environmental policies of six Mexican states.Шаблон:Sfn She created educational campaigns and wrote books aimed at increasing awareness of environmental protection among the general public.Шаблон:Sfn She was influential in securing passage of the State of Aguascalientes' Environmental Protection Law in 1999 and served the government by participating in environmental impact studies and creating public policies.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn They included activities such as examining dye pollutants in the San Pedro River introduced by manufacturers, the death of large numbers of migratory birds in the area of the El Niágara dam, and loss of habitat and greenspaces because of infrastructure projects.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn These experiences led to her selection in 2002 as Mexico's delegate to the Earth Summit held in September in Johannesburg, South Africa, and as a Latin American delegate to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development in November.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Mexico signed the Earth Charter in 2002, and Medellín along with other activists began working to implement its incorporation in educational programs. Through the Earth Charter Initiative, they trained teachers, administrative staff and management, as well as parents and students about the need for sustainability projects and how they could be implemented in daily life and educational programs.Шаблон:Sfn She lectured at numerous schools and civic organizations in states besides Aguascalientes, including Morelia, Querétaro, and Sinaloa.Шаблон:Sfn Her lectures focused on recycling, the importance of plants in the environment, global warming, damage to the planet caused by pollutants, and consumer waste and overspending.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In addition to speaking engagements, Medellín wrote six books on the environment.Шаблон:Sfn She spearheaded a program to reclaim used batteries, placing collection boxes in OXXO convenience stores, which were then retrieved by municipal workers.Шаблон:Sfn Following her mother's death in 2010, Medellín became president and worked full time at Шаблон:Lang.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Medellín was the inaugural recipient of the Шаблон:Lang (Aguascalientes State Prize of Environmental Merit) in 2006.Шаблон:Sfn She was honored in 2012 with the Шаблон:Lang (Ecological Merit Award), Mexico's highest award for ecological distinction. The award recognizes persons or organizations that teach sustainability or develop and strengthen policies aimed at protecting the environment.Шаблон:Sfn The following year, she protested against construction of a Nissan assembly plant on the banks of the San Pedro River that was extracting excessive amounts of sand from neighboring streams.Шаблон:Sfn In 2020, the Шаблон:Lang (National College of Ecological Doctors) awarded her the Шаблон:Lang (Golden Biotope) to honor her work in habitat preservation.Шаблон:Sfn She was honored in 2021 by the municipality of Auguascalientes with the Aguascaliente Prize in the Clear Water (Agua Clara) category.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Simultaneously it was announced that the Tree-planting Center of the state's ecological facility would be renamed in her honor, as the Queta Medellín Ecological Center.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Death and legacy

Medellín died of colon cancer on 6 January 2022 in Auguascalientes.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn At the time of her death she was recognized as one of the most prominent environmental activists in the state and central region of Mexico.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Recognizing her work in influencing local and state policy on environmental issues, El Clarinete, a local newspaper, reported that Medellín had also helped rescue a city park, Шаблон:Lang, as well as a state park, Шаблон:Lang.Шаблон:Sfn Posthumously, the City Council of Aguascalientes established the Шаблон:Lang (Enriqueta Medellín Prize) to be awarded annually to individuals or organizations which promote community well-being and focus on the environment.Шаблон:Sfn Among the categories to be recognized by the award are excellence in development of the arts, diversity, economy, environment, health, inclusion, women, and youth. There is also a special category which recognizes civil associations that have provided social services for at least fifteen years.Шаблон:Sfn The first awards ceremony for the prize took place on 30 September 2022.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

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