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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Raúl Zibechi: When the Peripheries Move
WHEN THE PERIPHERIES MOVE AROUND Raúl Zibechi Groups of youths from 15 to 20 years old are self-convoking in the shopping centers of Brazil, above all in São Paulo, although the practice is extending throughout the country, to walk around,…
Read MoreMexico: Drug War Meltdown
MEXICO: THE POLITICS OF A STATE MELTDOWN As a massive federal police and military deployment gains momentum in the Mexican state of Michoacan, polemics and debate shroud the first major such operation undertaken by the administration of President Enrique Pena…
Read MoreUnited States is Ready to Help Mexico in Michoacan: John Kerry
US, “Ready” to Offer Help to Mexico in Michoacán: John Kerry ** “Yes, we are concerned,” the Secretary of State ratifies in a meeting with Meade ** The cabinet official referred to the conflict between self-defense groups and drug gangs…
Read MoreU. S. in Michoacán: words of interference
La Jornada Editorial US in Michoacán: words of interference Lea en español: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2014/01/16/opinion/002a1edi According to information published yesterday by the Dpa news agency, a high official in the US State Department affirmed that the violence and loss of governability that…
Read MoreResumen de Noticias Sobre Los Zapatistas – Diciembre del 2013
DICIEMBRE DEL 2013 RESUMEN DE NOTICIAS SOBRE LOS ZAPATISTAS En Chiapas 1. El EZLN emite tres comunicados – Los Zapatistas emitieron tres comunicados: Dos Avisos Importantes; Rebobinar 2; y Rebobinar 1. En el primer comunicado, Moisés da información para quiénes…
Read MoreZapatistas: twenty years after
ZAPATISTAS: TWENTY YEARS AFTER By: Luis Hernández Navarro Winds are blowing today, similar to those that blew 20 years ago in the Mexican elites. At that time Carlos Salinas de Gortari felt invincible, much like Enrique Peña Nieto does today….
Read MoreZapatista Event at Modern Times Bookstore, SF
20 YEARS OF FREEDOM ACCORDING TO THE ZAPATISTAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2014 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm MODERN TIMES BOOKSTORE 2919 24th STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110 For 20 years the Zapatistas have been constructing their autonomy. Some of us that attended the…
Read MoreZapatistas: the Wealth of Dignity
ZAPATISTAS: the wealth of dignity By: Luis Hernández Navarro In the community of Emiliano Zapata in the Whirlwind of Our Words Caracol, 30 Zapatista families work collectively. They have in common a coffee plantation, vegetable gardens and about 350 head of cattle….
Read MoreEZLN: The Fighting lasted 12 Days; the struggle continues
A little Zapatista history… The Fighting Lasted 12 Days; the struggle continues ** 20 years after their Chiapas Uprising, the Zapatistas resist and reinvent themselves By: Hermann Bellinghausen San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, December 30, 2013 Against the versions…
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