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Non-stop “bullet baths” against Tsotsils in Aldama
Above: Cocó community, Aldama, Chiapas – Photo: EFE, Carlos Lopez By: Hermann Bellinghausen The daily life of violence can anesthetize public opinion, but not those who suffer it every day. Not one day goes by without bullet baths against more…
Read MoreMexico: cartography of war
By: Raúl Romero* Visualize a map of México. To the north, place the Logistical and Industrial Corridor of the Treaty between México, the United States and Canada. Though the public information to the effect is still scarce and imprecise, Caxxor…
Read MoreSearch Commission tours Pantelhó to find the 21 missing residents
El Machete Self-Defense Forces of Pantelhó Above Photo from La Jornada By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas Supported by National Guard agents and members of the Mexican Army, officials from the National Search Commission for Missing…
Read MoreEl Machete separates itself from the 21 missing residents
By: Elio Henriquez San Cristóbal De Las Casas, Chiapas The El Machete Self-Defense Forces of the People, an armed group, stated that it does not know the whereabouts of 21 residents detained 6 months ago in the municipal seat of…
Read MoreViolence returns to Altamirano, 27 kidnapped
Above: Smoke from Altamirano’s municipal palace last September After municipal offices were set on fire and ransacked, taxis were burned and people were kidnapped and held as hostages in the struggle to oust a former finquero family from municipal power…
Read MoreThe Europe of Below and Aldama, Chiapas
In the streets of Vienna, a protest to demand the return of two kidnapped Zapatistas. By: Carlos Soledad* The state of Chiapas has become powder keg. On September 11, [2021] for example, members of the paramilitary organization ORCAO kidnapped the…
Read MoreCall on the Mexican government to stop & disband paramilitary war on Zapatista & Indigenous communities
End the Paramilitary War on Zapatista and Indigenous Communities Stop all megaprojects and extractive industries on Zapatista and Indigenous territories Para leer la versión en español, haga clic aquí: Alto a la guerra paramilitar contra las comunidades indígenas y zapatistas…
Read MoreCommunities, barrios and “Machetes” disavow the Pantelhó mayor in front of the government palace
The above banner reads: “Austroberto Herrera, Dayli De Los Santos and their hit men murdered all these people.” Photo: Isaín Mandujano By: Isaín Mandujano Raquel Trujillo Morales left Pantelhó after the irruption of the “Los Machetes” Self-Defense group. However, he…
Read MoreArmed “scooters” sow terror in San Cristóbal de las Casas
Above Photo: Screen Capture from video posted on Twitter – In the image, at the end of last September, in broad daylight, a group of motonetos (“scooters”) fired off gunshots in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. From the Editors…
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