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
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 Elio Henríquez, La Jornada correspondent, November 21, 2023 The Zapatista vocation, according to “a laconic definition,” is “to be a good seed,” stated Subcomandante Moisés of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional). “We do not…
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Category: Autonomy, Capitalism, Collapse, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, militarization, Neoliberalism, Self-determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Zapatismo, Zapatista Communiqué, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Tour, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Mexico City | Desinformémonos. The Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI, National Indigenous Congress) – Consejo Indígena de Gobierno (CIG, Indigenous Council of Government) (CNI-CIG) have called for a global action to stop the war against the people of Mexico and the…
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Category: Access to Water, accumulation by dispossession, Acteal Massacre, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, Autonomy, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, CNI, Collective Rights, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Counterinsurgency, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Extractive Model, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Government Council, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, Mexico-U.S. Relations, militarization, Murder, Narco violence, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Patriarchy, Perpetual War, PIM (Morelos Integral Project), Police, Private Armies, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Uncategorized, Water, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatistas
By Gilberto López y Rivas, La Jornada The National Indigenous Congress (CNI, Congreso Nacional Indígena) and its Indigenous Council of Government (CIG, Consejo Indígena de Gobierno) made public a call to commemorate, this October 12, the 531 years of the…
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Category: Access to Water, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, Class Struggle, CNI, colonialism, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Criminalization\ of Migration, Demonstrations, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, Gilberto López y Rivas, Human Rights, Indigenous Government Council, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Internal colonialism, Marichuy, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, militarization, Mining, Murder, NAFTA, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Perpetual War, PIM (Morelos Integral Project), Police, Private Armies, Racism, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, The Political Class, Uncategorized, Violence Against Women and Girls, Women, Women in Resistance, Women's Rights, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
Mexico City | Desinformémonos. Faced with the growing dominance of organized crime groups throughout Chiapas, the Diocese of San Cristóbal criticized “the silence of the authorities” which demonstrates “a failed state that has surpassed and/or colluded with criminal groups,” whose…
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Category: Chamula Cartel, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Hermann Bellinghausen, militarization, Narco violence, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Police, Private Armies, Repression
By: Mary Ann Tenuto SánchezJuly 28, 2023 At the end of August 2022 and early in October 2022, the Chiapas Support Committee published a two-part report on the dramatic increase in violence in the Mexican state of Chiapas, home to…
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Category: Counterinsurgency, Disappearance, Dispossession, Human Rights, Individual Support, militarization, Paramilitary Violence, Resistance, Sembrando Vida, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, Mexico, ORCAO, Paramilitary Attacks
Chiapas Support Committee 