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Pronouncement of the International Gathering El Sur Resiste May 7, 2023
¡EL SUR RESISTE 2023/ THE SOUTH RESISTS! CARAVAN INTERNATIONAL GATHERING OF THE SOUTH/SOUTHEAST “Global corporate capitalism, Planetary patriarchy, Autonomies in rebellion” CIDECI-UNITIERRA / CARACOL JACINTO CANEKMay 7, 2023PRONOUNCEMENTTo the General Command of the EZLNTo the National Indigenous CongressTo the Indigenous…
Read MoreEl Sur Resiste 2023 International Gathering begins in Chiapas, Mexico
The “El Sur Resiste | The South Resists 2023” International Gathering began Saturday, May 6 in the CIDECI, University of the Earth Chiapas, where more than 700 people have met in order to make visible the dispossession of territories nationally…
Read MoreThe Caravan arrives in San Cristóbal after touring six states
By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas Members of the caravan called El Sur Resiste | The South Resists, organized by the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), arrived in San Cristóbal, after touring the states of Oaxaca, Veracruz,…
Read MoreDay 8 – Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo: Maya Jungle leveled by Maya Train
On the 8th day of the El Sur Resiste | The South Resists Caravan arrived in the city of Felipe Carillo Puerto where we marched through the streets of the city making visible the problems caused by the Maya Train…
Read MoreExtractivism rhymes with militarism
By: Raúl Zibechi Some very recent events on our continent represent a twist in the militarization of common goods, either legally or de facto, by the hand of governments and their armed forces or irregular armed actors who roam freely…
Read MoreEl sur resiste | The south resists: Gathering on the Zapatista & Indigenous struggles against mega-projects
El sur resiste | The south resists Updates on the Zapatista movement & land justice struggles in México: On the CNI campaign to stop the “Maya Train” & Inter-Oceanic Corridor An Evening of Solidarity, Poetry & Zapatismo At Medicine for…
Read MoreMaking the path to walk
By: Raúl Romero* In October 2016,the National Indigenous Congress (CNI, Congreso Nacional Indígena) celebrated its fifth congress and 20 years of existence. Meeting in the Universidad de la Tierra, in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, delegates to the congress…
Read MoreThe storms from above
By: Raúl Zibechi They are multiple and simultaneous. They are environmental, military, political, paramilitary, economic and femicidal storms. It’s drug trafficking as an arm of the states and the powerful. It’s a policy of accumulation of capital and of power,…
Read MoreLegal protction of lithium in Mexico will favor US and Canada
As part of its program called Lithium Exploration, the Mexican Geological Survey carried out work in 82 locations in 17 states, in which “possible deposits of the mineral” were identified, according to the report prepared by Mining Watch Canada and…
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