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Prohibited thinking?
By: Gilberto López y Rivas The seedbeds-roundtables organized by the EZLN, like the one that takes place this week in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, constitute spaces open to critical thinking about what occurs in Mexico, –and in the…
Read MoreGonzález Casanova becomes Comandante Pablo Contreras
By: Luis Hernández Navarro San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas Starting yesterday, Doctor Pablo González Casanova, 96, is “Comandante Pablo Contreras” of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (CCRI-EZLN, its initials in Spanish). The naming…
Read MoreEZLN: The system will not permit the triumph of AMLO; the capitalist hydra is crazed
By the Sin Embargo Editorial Staff Capital will not permit the triumph of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidate of the alliance “Together We’ll Make History,” in the next presidential election, Subcomandante Galeano assured during the round table “Looks, listens, words:…
Read MoreEZLN: They reward the cheaters, they punish the just (Marichuy); do they now see that we were not from Salinas?
Subcomandante Galeano, before Marcos, of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), defended Marichuy’s campaign that did not meet the number of signatures necessary for run as a candidate to the Presidency, but she did obtain…
Read MoreGaleano: The left is drunk and doesn’t see the fraud coming
By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas Subcomandante Galeano, of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), asserted that the institutional left: “is so drunk celebrating a victory that it still doesn’t have in…
Read MoreWater and indigenous peoples
By: Francisco López Bárcenas Last March 22 we celebrated World Water Day, so declared by the United Nations Organization to foment awareness in humanity about the importance of the vital liquid for the continuity of life on the planet. It…
Read MoreProgram for the Zapatista Roundtable discussion
I. Poster and Photography Exhibition April 15-25, 2018, at CIDECI-UniTierra, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico Images of Hope Poster art from Marichuy’s campaign Curated by Alejandro Magallanes Absences and Presences Disappeared Women, Women of Dignified Rage Photographs by…
Read MoreZapatista Women’s Gathering Closing Words
Words of the Zapatista women at the closing ceremony of the First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture for Women in Struggle in the Zapatista Caracol of the Tzotz Choj Zone March 10, 2018 Good evening, good morning,…
Read MoreFrayba denounces new forced displacement of 90 families in Chiapas
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Center (Frayba) denounced that a civilian armed group of Chenalhó provoked the forced displacement of some 90 Tsotsil families from a community in the neighbor municipality of Aldama,…
Read MoreEZLN announces April Roundtable event
The Sixth Commission of the Zapatista National Liberation Army convokes a ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION (or seedbed, depending): “Looks, Listens, Words: Prohibited Thinking?” ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY Sixth commission of the EZLN Mexico March 2018 To the persons, groups, collectives and organizations…
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