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Category: Environment/ecology
Armed group loots barite in Chicomuselo and threatens residents
By: Elio Henríquez, CorrespondentSan Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas Unidentified individuals began to remove, with the support of armed men, barite extracted a few years ago by the Canadian company BlackFire Exploration Mexico from a mine located in the Grecia…
Read MoreDay 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…
Read MoreDay 5 of the Caravan: El Bosque community devoured by Global Warming
Text: Observatorio Memoria y Libertad Photos: Karen Castillo – Observatorio Memoria y Libertad The Caravan El Sur Resiste on its fifth day of travel arrived in Colonia El Bosque, Tabasco, a community located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Grijalva…
Read MoreCampaign in defense of San Cristóbal wetlands begins
By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas With a march in which dozens of people, the General Council for the southern zone initiated a national and international campaign in defense of the San Cristóbal wetlands, which encompass…
Read MoreOil palm plantations in Chiapas, Mexico: Women fight against territorial control and violence
WRM Bulletin 264 16 January 2023 Oil palm plantations are a central cause of deforestation in southeast Mexico. A network of women in Chiapas have organized to denounce the tactics of coercion and deception employed by the State and companies to…
Read MoreCapitalism in criminal mode
By: Raúl Zibechi In Latina America a criminal or mafia capitalism is expanding geometrically, in whose practices the differences between formality, informality and crime dissolve, as Peruvian researcher Francisco Durand maintains and how he has previously analyzed the Argentine Marcelo…
Read MoreThe wetlands in San Cristóbal, Chiapas, are worth more than a billion pesos and a city’s water
By: Ángeles Mariscal The La Kisst and María Eugenia Mountain wetlands, located in the municipality of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, are at risk of disappearing. To assess the cost of the loss to the ecosystem services it now…
Read MoreZapatistas do cleaning and maintenance on Huitepec Reserve
The sign also reads: “We struggle to defend Mother Earth. We are born in her, we grow up and we die in her. Natural protected area. EZLN, Zona Altos de Chiapas (Chiapas Highlands Zone). By: Chiapas Paralelo Support bases of…
Read MoreWetlands invaders in Chiapas threaten officials
By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas Individuals who have been filling in the San Cristóbal wetlands for several months attempted to retain and intimidate officials from the environmental sector of the three levels of government who…
Read MoreJudge orders definitive suspension of work on Section 5 of the Maya Train
By: Patricia Vázquez Correspondent and La Jornada Maya In a hearing held last May 27, the first district court of Yucatán ordered the definitive suspension of work on Section 5 South of the Maya Train, from Playa del Carmen to…
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