Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Counterinsurgency

Llamado al gobierno mexicano de poner fin y desmantelar guerra paramilitar contra comunidades indígenas y zapatistas

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Alto a la guerra paramilitar contra las comunidades indígenas y zapatistas Alto a los megaproyectos e industrias extractivas en territorios indígenas y zapatistas To read the version in English, click here: End all Mexican Government support & disband the paramilitary…

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 Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, Capitalism, CNI, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Counterinsurgency, Displacement, Extractive Model, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Las Abejas, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, militarization, Mining, NAFTA, NAFTA, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary Violence, PIM (Morelos Integral Project), Pueblo Creyente/Believing People, Repression, Resumenes en español, Territory, Zapatistas    

Call on the Mexican government to stop & disband paramilitary war on Zapatista & Indigenous communities

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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…

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 Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Autonomy, Capitalism, Counterinsurgency, Displacement, Extractive Model, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Kidnapping, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico-U.S. Relations, militarization, Mining, Murder, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Perpetual War, PIM (Morelos Integral Project), Territory, Zapatistas    

ORCAO Paramilitaries Attack and Burn Zapatista School in Moisés y Gandhi

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Above Photo reads: Stop the attacks on the Zapatista Peoples! Paramilitaries out of Chiapas! San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. November 21, 2021. To the Peoples of the World To the Indigenous Governing Council To the National Indigenous Congress To…

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 Category: Autonomous Zapatista Education, Counterinsurgency, Paramilitary Violence      Tags: ,

State Racism and War Against the People in Chiapas

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Above Photo: More than 3,000 residents of Aldama Municipality have been forcibly displaced from their homes due to paramilitary violence. By: Gilberto López y Rivas This past November 4th, the Fray Bartolomé Human Rights Center (Frayba) published on their page…

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 Category: Counterinsurgency, Displacement, Gilberto López y Rivas, Internal colonialism, Mexico Drug War, Paramilitary Violence, Racism, Zapatistas      Tags: , ,

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    

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…

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 Category: Class Struggle, Counterinsurgency, EZLN, Repression, Social Control      Tags: , ,

Residents: Paramilitaries attacked Aldama 203 times in October

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Above Photo: Cuartoscuro | In a file image, families are given refuge in a carpentry workshop in Chivit community last June 18. By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal De Las Casas, Chiapas Residents of Aldama municipality affirmed that in October members…

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 Category: Counterinsurgency, Displacement, Dispossession, Paramilitary Violence, political prisoners      Tags: , ,

Communities, barrios and “Machetes” disavow the Pantelhó mayor in front of the government palace

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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…

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 Category: Class Struggle, Counterinsurgency, Mexico Drug War, Organized Crime, Self-defense      Tags: , ,

Armed “scooters” sow terror in San Cristóbal de las Casas

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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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