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: history, Immigration, Mexico, news, politics
A report by the Chiapas Support Committee The Zapatistas have maintained autonomous self-government in their territories in Chiapas ever since the successful and unexpected uprising of 1994. Last year, for the third or fourth time since that uprising, the Zapatistas…
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Category: AMLO, Autonomy, Autonomy, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, Lo común, Lopez Obrador, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, migrants, militarization, Morena, Murder, National Indigenous Congress, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Repression, Resistance, Self-Determination, Sembrando Vida, The Common, US Drug Cartels, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, colonialism, Mexico, narco, Neoliberalism, news, politics
By Desinformémonos Students from Ayotzinapa Normal denounced the six-year Presidencial term limit of Andrés Manuel López Obrador “is about to conclude leaving in the air” the disappearance of the 43 classmates who on the 26th of September will mark 10…
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Category: AMLO, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Disappearance, Human Rights, Morena, Organized Crime, Perpetual War
Tags: AMLO, Ayotzinapa, crime, disappeared, history, Mexico, news, students, teachers, true-crime
By Sergio Ocampo Arista, correspondent, La Jornada Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. The former spokesperson for the Ayotzinapa parents, Felipe de la Cruz, reported that Arturo Medina Padilla, assistant secretary for Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior…
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Category: AMLO, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Disappearance, Human Rights, Morena, Organized Crime, Perpetual War
Tags: AMLO, Ayotzinapa, disappeared, history, Mexico, news
From the EZLN’s Capitán, at Enlace Zapatista. August 2024. Let’s assume, without conceding, that you can imagine the following: You were born in an indigenous town. In a community you acquired your language, your culture, your way. All this makes…
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Category: Autonomy, Capitalism, Chiapas Tourism, colonialism, Displacement, Extractive Model, Extreme Right Politics, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenism, Indigenous Rights, Megaprojects, Mexico's Social Movements, Morena, political prisoners, Racism, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Solidarity, Zapatismo, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
By Gilberto López y Riva | La Jornada In Mexico, a democratic transition does not take place with the collapse of the state party regime, upon the arrival of Vicente Fox to the Presidency of the Republic. There is a…
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Category: Autonomy, Autonomy, CNI, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Counterinsurgency, EZLN, EZLN History, Gilberto López y Rivas, Indigenous Rights, Left, Marichuy, National Indigenous Congress, Patriarchy, Self-defense, Territory, Women, Zapatismo, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Women, Zapatistas
Tags: EZLN, Indigenous, Mexico, politics, Zapatistas
EZLN / DOSSIER / December 2023 By Yásnaya Elena A. Gil For Celso Cruz Martínez,a flower in the desert For Iván Gil.Tyoskujuyëp, amuum tu’uk joojt Every time I can, I ask: Where were you when you found out about the existence of the…
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Category: Autonomy, Autonomy, Capitalism, Comandanta Ramona, community, Democracy, Dispossession, Environment/ecology, EZLN, Indigenism, Indigenous Rights, Left, Lopez Obrador, Marichuy, militarization, NAFTA, NAFTA, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary Violence, Repression, Resistance, San Andrés Accords, Self-determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Zapatismo, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Escuelitas, Zapatista March, Zapatista Women, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Tags: art, EZLN, Mexico, news, Zapatistas
By Desinformemonos | February 12, 2024 Mexico City | Desinformémonos. Residents of the autonomous region of Moisés & Gandhi, Chiapas, reported a new armed attack against the Support Bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (BAEZLN) by the Regional…
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Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Autonomy, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, militarization, ORCAO, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Repression, Resistance, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Zapatista bases of support
Tags: AMLO, Autonomous Government, Chiapas, EZLN, land, Mexico, ORCAO, Paramilitary Attacks, Paramilitary Groups, politics, Self-determination, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatistas
by Elio Henriquez, La Jornada correspondent | February 3, 2024 San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. The National Network of Civil Human Rights Organizations “All Rights for All” (Red TDT, Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos Todos los…
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Category: Collective Rights, Disappearance, Displacement, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, militarization, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Repression, Self-determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, EZLN, Mexico, news, ORCAO, politics, Zapatista bases of support
By Mariana Mora | Originally published in Spanish by La Jornada Over the course of three decades, Zapatismo has managed to break through again and again into what appears to be the inevitable destiny of a historical outcome. Just when…
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Category: Access to Water, Autonomy, Collective Rights, Communications, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, EZLN History, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Mariana Mora, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Narco violence, Paramilitary Violence, Revolutionary Art, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, The Common, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatismo, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Women, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
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