General Director for Chinampa Nantli

Tired of following the cliché that a man must work away from home to support his children, Omar gave up his prominent career as a lawyer, only a few steps away from becoming a judge, to recover a chinampa that was abandoned at the time and that is a family heirloom. He decides to resume his ancestral pre-Hispanic agricultural knowledge, so from scratch, macheting lilies and thinking about the future of his daughter, he started Chinampa Nantli. He integrated the women of his family, encouraging and supporting them in embracing their independence, and made them respected partners. He says, “This great project is invaluable because, in addition to empowering women, rescuing our pre-Hispanic chinampera tradition, and protecting the Xochimilco ecological reserve, it demonstrates the wealth and economic productivity in the Mexican countryside.”