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The end of democratic societies in Latin America
By: Raúl Zibechi Scene 1: Weeks ago, a cultural center of Munro, a place in the northern zone of Buenos Aires, presented the Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro, one of the more potent tango bands in current Argentina. At a certain…
Read MoreMarichuy denounces INE’s system for collecting signatures via cell phone
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) The candidate nominated by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) to the presidency of the Republic, María de Jesús Patricio Martínez (Marichuy), today denounced “the simulation” and…
Read MoreMarichuy, a very different campaign
By: Luis Hernández Navarro Some 21 years ago, on October 11, 1996, an indigenous Nahua from Jalisco read the political statement of the nascent National Indigenous Congress. In the name of more than 600 delegates coming from all over the…
Read MorePeña Nieto decrees putting the first 3 special economic zones into operation
By: Alonso Urrutia Tapachula, Chiapas President Enrique Peña Nieto signed the decree by which the first three special economic zones: Tapachula, Coatzacoalcos and Lázaro Cárdenas, will enter into operation with a scheme of fiscal incentives to capture foreign and national…
Read MoreRaúl Zibechi: What I learned from the Mexican people
By: Raúl Zibechi I had the immense good fortune of having been in Mexico City on September 19. At 1:15 pm we were with compañero and friend Luis Hernández Navarro near colonia Juárez. In the following days I was with…
Read MoreThe subjects of revolutionary waves are the movements, not the States
[Your friendly CompaManuel blogger just bought the book described below and shares some of its ideas through this interview in Spanish that we translated into English.] By FM La Caterva Progressivism seems to be in crisis in a good part…
Read More“Chinga tu madre Peña Nieto…” Zapatistas in the five Caracoles
By: Isaín Mandujano The Zapatista CompArte Festival concluded Saturday with the slogan “Chinga tu madre Peña Nieto… and you too, Donald Trump,” indigenous of the five regions where the support bases of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) are grouped…
Read MoreMexico and Venezuela: submission and interference
A LA JORNADA EDITORIAL In a joint communiqué, the secretaries of Treasury and Public Credit (SHCP) and of Foreign Relations (SRE) reported yesterday, with respect to the sanctions announced by the Donald Trump administration against Venezuela that the Mexican government…
Read MoreThe pro-capitalist “left”
By: Gustavo Esteva The openly anti-capitalist posture of the CNI’s initiative has provoked very different reactions. It’s useful to examine them by reflecting on what it means today to be against what capital says and does. The most common reaction…
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