Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Article 27 Counter-Reform

Forget the San Andrés Accords

Posted on February 20, 2024 by Art of the Commune | Arte de la comuna

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By Carlos Manzo, Ojarasca The San Andrés Sakamch’en de los Pobres Accords, signed on February 16th, 1996 by the federal government and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), seem to be a matter forgotten by the Mexican State, political…

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Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Article 27 Counter-Reform, Autonomy, Autonomy, Dams, El Sur Resiste!, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Megaprojects, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress, San Andrés Accords, Self-Determination, Solidarity, The Common, Zapatismo, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas Tags: Chiapas, common, history, indigenoys, land, Mexico, non-property, politics, San Andrés Accords, Southeast Mexico, Territory, Zapatistas

The Corn War

Posted on March 1, 2023 by MaryAnn Tenuto-Sanchez

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By: Luis Hernández Navarro The United States is the world’s largest producer, consumer and exporter of corn. But its crops are used to feed livestock and automobiles, manufacture high fructose sweeteners, snacks, alcohols, oils and, marginally, for people to eat….

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Category: Article 27 Counter-Reform, Health, Luis Hernández Navarro, Mexican Organic Corn, Mexico-U.S. Relations, NAFTA, T-MEC Tags: GMO Corn, Mexico

The Article 27 Reform Fiasco: Advancement of Intensive Agriculture

Posted on November 27, 2022 by Chiapas Support Committee

By: Ana de Ita* Thanks to the series of excellent reports, “Echos of the Agrarian Counter-reform” that La Jornada offered us last week, it is possible to take a closer look at what has happened with the agrarian question after…

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Category: Article 27 Counter-Reform, Capitalism, Class Struggle, NAFTA Tags: Article 27, Mexico