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Monthly Archives: March 2014
Chiapas Human Rights Center Celebrates 25 Years
THE FRAYBA IS ONE MORE ACTOR INSIDE A LIBERATING PROCESS: VICTOR HUGO LÓPEZ ** The NGO’s director recognizes the role of Bishop Samuel Ruiz, the center’s founder ** The largest number of denunciations it receives now are from women “hooked”…
Read MoreThe Plan Puebla-Panama Is Changing Chiapas
[This article has been updated to reflect the opening of the Palenque International Airport and an additional murder in the Agua Azul region (Juan Carlos Gómez Silvano), which is reported in the post below this*] THE PLAN PUEBLA-PANAMA IS CHANGING…
Read MoreIndigenous Zapatista Supporter Murdered in Chiapas
ASSASSINATE YOUNG INDIGENOUS LEADER IN CHILON, CHIAPAS By: Hermann Bellinghausen, Envoy San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, March 22, 2014 Juan Carlos Gómez Silvano, adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandón Jungle from Chilón municipality, was assassinated this Friday…
Read MoreIndigenous Peoples from 5 Mesoamerican Countries Form Front Against Mining
AGAINST THE IMPERIALISM AND NEOCOLONIALISM OF MINING COMPANIES, THE CURRENT BATTLE OF THE PEOPLES ** Organization is required to win, NGO’s from several countries point out in Puebla ** Emissaries from Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador expose abuses…
Read MoreOstula: Autonomy, Self-Defense, Natural Resources and Narcos
The community recuperation of Xayakalan on the Michoacán Coast is about their lands, guards and autonomy All kinds of interests cross each other within their territory: the governments seek to implement highway projects that facilitate the shipment of merchandise and…
Read MoreThe Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon – A New Book
Struggles and Contributions are narrated in The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón ** They praise the first transnational network of Mexican and US revolutionaries in a book ** The anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz emphasizes that the theme has…
Read MoreRaúl Zibechi: Reclaiming the Strategic Debate
RECLAIMING THE STRATEGIC DEBATE By: Raúl Zibechi It seems evident that we are before a turn of history. What happens in the next few years, added to what is already happening, will have a long-term effect. What we…
Read MoreVenezuela: Cubs of Reaction
Luis Hernández Navarro speaks out on Venezuela Venezuela: cubs of reaction By: Luis Hernández Navarro Lorent Saleh is a 25-year old Venezuelan youth, with flaming language, who studied foreign trade. He is one of the visible heads of the coalition…
Read MoreNew Zapatista Magazine – Rebeldía Zapatista
New publication: Rebeldía Zapatista: The Voice of the EZLN MARCH 1, 2014 Editorial by Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés for the first edition of Rebeldía Zapatista, the Word of the EZLN We rebellious Zapatistas, along with our mother earth, are threatened with destruction…
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