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Displaced indigenous people, between aggressions from paramilitary groups and Covid-19
By: Hermann Bellinghausen In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, more than a thousand people displaced because of continuous violence in the Tzotzil municipality of Chalchihuitán [1], in the Highlands (Los Altos) of Chiapas, denounced another armed attack last May…
Read MoreDisplaced from Los Altos of Chiapas, defenseless against the virus and armed groups
By: Hermann Bellinghausen In Los Altos of Chiapas, the displaced Tzotzils from Aldama municipality are in a doubly vulnerable situation. To the attacks from armed groups, tolerated by the state government, are added increasing health risks during the health emergency,…
Read MoreSanta María Ostula, mining and organized crime
By: Luis Hernández Navarro On the Michoacán coast, the territory and natural resources of Santa María de Ostula community are in dispute. It’s literally a struggle for life and death in which the comuneros defend their land and their habitat…
Read MoreCNI-CIG Denunciation regarding the harassment of CNI Chiapas compañeros
March 7, 2020 To the People of Mexico: To the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion: To the National and International Sexta: To the Communications Media: To the Human Rights Organisms: To the Organizations in Defense of Territory and Mother Earth:…
Read MoreSTATEMENT ON THE KIDNAPPING OF CNI MEMBERS IN CHILÓN, CHIAPAS
STATEMENT ON THE KIDNAPPING OF CNI MEMBERS IN CHILÓN, CHIAPAS, FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE DAYS OF ”WE ARE ALL SAMIR” February 26 2020 To the people of México: To the networks of resistance and rebellion: To the National and…
Read More190 people flee after armed attack in Chilón, Chiapas
By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal De Las Casas, Chiapas Around 40 families (190 people) were forcibly displaced from the San Antonio Patbaxil community, municipality of Chilón, because they were “attacked by armed subjects,” the Indigenous Rights Center (Cediac) and Fray…
Read MoreWhat is the gringos’ interest in Sonora: drugs or lithium?
By: Zosimo Camacho Will the United States soon stay on the sidelines of the world’s largest exploitation of lithium? Even when this deposit is a few kilometers beyond its southern border? Today, the largest lithium deposit on the planet in…
Read MoreMilitarization in Mexico Advances with a Red Zone in the South-Southeast
By: Eugenia Lopez Translated by El Enemigo Común Militarism in Mexico is increasing. President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, along with the commander of the National Guard Luis Ramirez Bucio, at an August 13th press conference shared a document titled “The…
Read MoreThey demand breaking up the armed groups in Chenalhó
By: Isaín Mandujano From this community in the Chiapas Highlands, indigenous people from a dozen communities that experienced a massive displacement in 2017, today asked the state and federal government to break up the civilian armed groups that operate in…
Read MoreThe Mexican government apologizes to indigenous women raped by the Army in 1994
“THEY PUNISHED US TO PUNISH ZAPATISMO” By: Angeles Mariscal The soldiers recognized them, when on June 4, 1994, Ana, Beatriz and Cecilia González Pérez and their mother Delia Pérez attempted to cross the checkpoint that the Mexican Army put up…
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