Chiapas Support Committee

Category: El Sur Resiste!


Forget the San Andrés Accords

By Carlos Manzo, Ojarasca The San Andrés Sakamch’en de los Pobres Accords, signed on February 16th, 1996 by the federal government and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), seem to be a matter forgotten by the Mexican State, political…

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Video: The Caravana El Sur Resiste visits Puente Madera

Chiapas Support Committee members who were on the El Sur Resiste | The South Resists Caravan film an interview with the women of Puente Madera and the elected community authority. They describe their town’s fight to prevent the construction of…

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In Mexico, Mining Law Reform is “Half-Baked”

By: Renata Bessi President Andrés Manuel López Obrador published, on May 8th in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), the reforms to the Mining, National Waters, Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection, and Prevention and Integral Waste Management Laws, approved…

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Pronouncement of the International Gathering El Sur Resiste May 7, 2023

¡EL SUR RESISTE 2023/ THE SOUTH RESISTS! CARAVAN  INTERNATIONAL GATHERING OF THE SOUTH/SOUTHEAST        “Global corporate capitalism, Planetary patriarchy, Autonomies in rebellion” CIDECI-UNITIERRA / CARACOL JACINTO CANEKMay 7, 2023PRONOUNCEMENTTo the General Command of the EZLNTo the National Indigenous CongressTo the Indigenous…

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El Sur Resiste 2023 International Gathering begins in Chiapas, Mexico

The “El Sur Resiste | The South Resists 2023” International Gathering began Saturday, May 6 in the CIDECI, University of the Earth Chiapas, where more than 700 people have met in order to make visible the dispossession of territories nationally…

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Raúl Zibechi on the importance of the El Sur Resiste Caravan

El Sur Resiste | The South Resists By: Raúl Zibechi On Thursday, May 4, the tour of the El Sur Resiste | The South Resists caravan, organized by local groups of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), concluded. After touring seven…

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The Caravan arrives in San Cristóbal after touring six states

By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas Members of the caravan called El Sur Resiste | The South Resists, organized by the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), arrived in San Cristóbal, after touring the states of Oaxaca, Veracruz,…

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Day 10 – Palenque, Chiapas: First health, food and justice, not a train that is not Maya

The El Sur Resiste | The South Resists Caravan arrived at its last stop, Palenque, Chiapas, before the start of the “International Gathering El Sur Resiste 2023,” which will take place on May 6 and 7 in the Jacinto Canek…

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Day 9: Xpujil, Campeche – The Army reconfigures Maya territory illegally

On day 9 of the El Sur Resiste | The South Resists caravan, we visited the Xpujil [1] community, Calakmul, Campeche; one of the places where section 7 of the Maya Train project is being built and has one of…

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Day 7: Valladolid, Yucatán, The people, like the jungle, always sprout

Mar, 05/02/2023 Day 7 of the El Sur Resiste |The South Resists Caravan begins with a ritual among all those who make it up: women and small children, youth and babies, as well as elderly people. Many come from other…

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