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The military industrial complex
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Above: Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, inspects work on the Maya Train with military personnel. By: Raúl Romero On January 17, 1961 upon concluding his term as president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a speech about…
Read MoreCategory: Capitalism, Extractive Model, Maya Train, militarization, Social Control Tags: Mexico
They remove the Mayor of Pantelhó and investigate him for homicide
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The mayor said that he has been pressured for weeks to resign from his position as mayor, but he refused to do as Leonel Reyes, coordinator of government delegates in the General Government Ministry, asked. By: Isaín Mandujano In a…
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Amidst soldiers and cartels, academia examines the rising violence in the Southeast
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Above Photo: Courtesy of Avispa Midia – With regard to the distribution of forces in national territory, the majority of General Coordination Units and personnel are found in the South and Southeast of the country. From: Editorial Staff: Yessica Morales…
Read MoreBrief chronology of paramilitary violence in Chiapas
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In the last several years, and escalating during 2021, paramilitary attacks on indigenous communities where civilian Zapatista supporters and sympathizers live have intensified and they have done so with impunity. In September, the EZLN warned that the paramilitary violence was…
Read MoreCategory: Access to Water, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Autonomy, Capitalism, CNI, Collective Rights, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Dispossession, Extractive Model, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Kidnapping, Megaprojects, Mexico's Social Movements, militarization, Mining, Murder, NAFTA, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary Violence, Perpetual War, Social Control, Territory, Zapatistas
A Tseltal woman is the new mayor of Altamirano, Chiapas
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The new mayor’s unlikely story began when a group of Altamirano residents started operating mototaxis without permits. Drivers of the “pirate” mototaxis clashed with drivers of traditional taxis with permits; one group would set the other group’s taxi on fire…
Read MoreCategory: Class Struggle, Counterinsurgency, EZLN, Repression, Social Control Tags: Altamirano, Chiapas, Mexico
Altamirano residents resort to armed self-defense to shake off the caciques
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Above Photo is a screen shot taken from the armed self-defense group’s video. By: Angeles Mariscal In Altamirano, the municipality located in the jungle zone of Chiapas, the Kanter family has governed since 2002. The men of the family and…
Read MoreCategory: Class Struggle, Internal colonialism, Mexico Drug War, Organized Crime, Resistance, Self-defense, Social Control, Zapatistas Tags: Chiapas, Mexico
The Chiapas hell
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By: Luis Hernández Navarro The Mexican southeast is key in the 4T’s political-territorial project. Three of its large megaprojects are located there: Train Maya, the Trans-Isthmus Corridor and the Dos Bocas refinery. Additionally, many resources for social programs are concentrated…
Read MoreCategory: Counterinsurgency, EZLN, Luis Hernández Navarro, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Social Control Tags: Chiapas, Mexico
The Consultation, the past that is the present
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Squadron 421 on stage in Spain By: Luis Hernández Navarro The geography of Mexican horror had, at the end of the 20th century, a peak moment. Atrocity became a form of daily government. The terror established a new nomenclature. It…
Read MoreArmy enters Pantelhó but doesn’t arrest criminal groups; thousands of indigenous people escape
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Above: The Armed Forces entered the municipal seat of Pantelhó Photo: Ángeles Mariscal By: Ángeles Mariscal July 12, 2021 Members of the Mexican Army and National Guard entered the municipality of Pantelhó, the place where indigenous Tsotsils, who define themselves…
Read MoreCategory: Autonomy, Counterinsurgency, Displacement, militarization, Murder, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Social Control Tags: Chiapas, Mexico, Pantelhó
Capitalist Crisis and social control
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By: William I. Robinson* President Joe Biden’s decision, last April 15, to expel 10 of the Kremlin’s diplomats and impose new sanctions against Russia for its alleged interference in the 2020 US presidential elections –which Russia already answered- caused…
Read MoreCategory: Capitalism, Social Control Tags: China, Pentagon Budget, Russia
Latest Posts
- They document attacks on a Zapatista community in the Lacandón Jungle January 18, 2022
- The Europe of Below and Aldama, Chiapas January 14, 2022
- Paramilitaries murder a resident of Aldama and injure a Zapatista January 12, 2022
- Emergency Appeal: Stand with the Indigenous & Zapatista Communities to Stop the Paramilitary Violence January 11, 2022
- Communique in Solidarity with the National School of Anthropology and History January 10, 2022
- From Europe they demand a stop to the violence in Aldama January 9, 2022
- The Invisible fabric January 7, 2022
- 2021: A year of resistance for life in Latin America January 3, 2022
- Indigenous anti-capitalist resistance and the Zapatista journey December 31, 2021
- Elect new president in Oxchuc; armed group irrupts and leaves one dead December 29, 2021
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