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“For Life, Against Megaprojects, and in Honor of Our Brother Samir Flores”
Thousands of Zapatista support bases got together on February 20, 2021 in all the Zapatista Caracoles in Chiapas to render homage and remember Samir Flores Soberanes, a social fighter from the Mexican state of Morelos, murdered two years ago for…
Read MoreThe EZLN inaugurates new government centers
By: Angeles Mariscal In the Jungle zone of Chiapas, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, its initials in Spanish) inaugurated with a celebration that their leaders attended, among them Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano -before Marcos-, two of the seven new “Caracoles”…
Read MoreEZLN creates seven new Caracols
[A new communiqué from the CCRI-CG of the EZLN was just released in Spanish (link below). This is a translation of a report on the communiqué in La Jornada with a list of the new Caracols and autonomous municipalities. This…
Read MoreNew paramilitary attack in San Manuel, La Garrucha
New paramilitary Attack in the Caracol of Resistance Toward a New Dawn, La Garrucha ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY MEXICO June 25, 2015 To the National and International Sixth: As we know, the bad governments are combining frauds with violence. Whether…
Read MoreLa Garrucha denounces paramilitary acts in San Manuel
CARACOL OF RESISTANCE TOWARDS A NEW DAWN Path of the Future Good Government Junta,* La Garrucha, Chiapas, Mexico May 11, 2015 WE DENOUNCE PUBLICLY To public opinion: To the communications media, alternative, autonomous or whatever you call them: To the national…
Read MoreAnatomy of a paramilitary attack on the Zapatistas
ANATOMY OF A PARAMILITARY ATTACK: A REPORT FROM SAN MANUEL By: Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez “Manuel Velasco state paramilitary chief, Enrique Peña Nieto supreme paramilitary chief” That’s what the letrero (hand-painted sign) says in front of the Zapatista bodega at the Cuxuljá…
Read MoreURGENT: More Zapatistas displaced in San Manuel
FRAYBA DENOUNCES MORE DEATH THREATS AND DISPLACEMENTS IN SAN MANUEL (UPDATED) [Please sign on to a trusted Mexican Human Rights Network’s letter to the bad governments about the attacks in San Manuel.] http://www.redtdt.org.mx/d_acciones/d_visual.php?id_accion=358 We are “on alert” and very concerned about…
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