Chiapas Support Committee

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Chiapas, case study of a criminal-state complex

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By Lucie Cabins (For the Chiapas Support Committee: May, 2025) “Impunity is not the result of a weak or deficient state, but rather it is actively provided to the gamut of armed groups who commit crimes and acts of terror…

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 Category: accumulation by dispossession, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, AMLO, Autonomy, Capitalism, Chamula Cartel, community, Counterinsurgency, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Criminalization\ of Migration, Disappearance, Displacement, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Lopez Obrador, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, migrants, Migration, militarization, Morena, Murder, Narco violence, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Private Armies, Resistance, San Cristóbal-Palenque Superhighway, Social Control, Surveillance, Territory, Torture, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Women, Zapatistas      Tags: , , , ,

Chiapas court sentences the “Cancuc 5” to 25 years in prison

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Bulletin No. 10San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, MexicoMay 17, 2023 The judicial power of the state of Chiapas condemns the five indigenous Tseltals from San Juan Cancuc to 25 years in prison for defending their territory The criminalization of…

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 Category: Criminalization, political prisoners, San Cristóbal-Palenque Superhighway, Social Control      Tags: , , , ,

Raúl Zibechi on the importance of the El Sur Resiste Caravan

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El Sur Resiste | The South Resists By: Raúl Zibechi On Thursday, May 4, the tour of the El Sur Resiste | The South Resists caravan, organized by local groups of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), concluded. After touring seven…

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 Category: Capitalism, El Sur Resiste!, Extractive Model, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Maya Train, Neoliberalism, Raúl Zibechi, Social Control      Tags: , ,

Peru, a popular destituent movement

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By: Luís Hernández Navarro Southern Peru burns. Angered by the usurpation of the popular will and government repression, demonstrators set fire to banks in Yunguyo, Puno department. They did the same at the police station in Triunfo, Arequipa. In the…

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 Category: Capitalism, Class Struggle, Luis Hernández Navarro, militarization, Murder, Repression, Social Control      Tags:

Zibechi: When war no longer saves the system

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By: Raúl Zibechi Many data indicate that the large companies of the military-industrial complex have been obtaining juicy profits since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But other data assure the opposite; they say that the capitalist crisis…

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 Category: Capitalism, militarization, Perpetual War, Raúl Zibechi, Repression, Social Control, Zapatismo      Tags: , ,

Geopolitical logic blocks emancipation

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By: Raúl Zibechi If we observe what happens within the doors of the three great powers that fight for world hegemony (the United States, China and Russia), we will see how the priority of geopolitical logics and interstate struggles narrow…

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 Category: Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, Class Struggle, Raúl Zibechi, Repression, Social Control      Tags: , ,

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…

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 Category: Capitalism, Extractive Model, Maya Train, militarization, Social Control      Tags:

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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 Category: Counterinsurgency, Social Control    

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…

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 Category: Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, Immigration, Maya Train, Mexico-U.S. Relations, militarization, Organized Crime, Social Control      Tags: , , ,

Brief 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…

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 Category: 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    

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