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Train wreck in the Mexican Southeast
By: Luis Hernández Navarro Months ago, in May 2019, the federal and state governments inaugurated the Wind Energy Park of the South and also the Architect Ignacio Chávez and the José Eduardo Ramírez Briseño electricity substations on the Isthmus of…
Read MoreEZLN warns AMLO: they will defend their territory against megaprojects
By: Angeles Mariscal The EZLN reiterated its position versus government policies that imply extractive projects and warned that they will defend their territory. It called for strengthening models based on self-determination and the knowledge of the original peoples. One year…
Read MoreZapatistas call to confront the “Fourth Annihilation” with the exercise of autonomies
By: Isaín Mandujano San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas The indigenous Zapatista bases of support of the Zapatista National liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) and of Mexico warned today that they will continue resisting in the new era…
Read MoreWords of the CCRI-CG of the EZLN on the 26th Anniversary
Words of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee-General Command of the EZLN, in the voice of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés, on the 26th Anniversary of the Start of the War Against Oblivion December 31, 2019. January 1, 2020. Good afternoon, good morning, good…
Read MoreZapatista Women close Women’s Gathering with a proposal
Words of the Zapatista Women at the Closing of the Second International Gathering of Women Who Struggle ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY MEXICO December 29, 2019 Compañeras and sisters: We want to share a few words with you as we close…
Read MoreFemicide: intolerable reality
A LA JORNADA EDITORIAL The year ends with the Second International Gathering of Women who Struggle, in which more than 3,500 of them, from 49 countries, are meeting with members of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación…
Read MoreWords of the Zapatista Women at the Opening of the Second International Women’s Gathering
[Save the Date: The Chiapas Support Committee is hosting a Dinner and Report Back from the Women’s Gathering on Saturday, February 8, 2020 at the Omni Commons. 5-7pm] ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY MEXICO December 27, 2019 Compañeras and sisters: Welcome…
Read MoreZapatista women’s gathering begins
ZAPATISTA WOMEN CALL TO CONQUER THE RIGHT TO LIFE IN FRONT OF 5,000 FEMINISTS From the correspondents Ejido Morelia, Altamirano, Chiapas “The right to life and all the rights we deserve and need, will not be given to us by…
Read MoreReport from EZLN-CNI Forum in Defense of Territory and Mother Earth
INDIGENOUS AGREE TO FORM AN ECONOMIC MODEL PARALLEL TO CAPITALISM By: Angeles Mariscal The global economic model based on the exploitation of nature and the accumulation of wealth, the capitalist economic model, in the last 200 years has provoked climate…
Read MoreAn Invitation to Build Community-to-Community Solidarity & Justice
An Invitation from the Chiapas Support Committee “We would like to take this opportunity to invite The Sixth, The Networks, the CNI, and all honest people to come and participate, together with the Zapatista peoples, in building these CRAREZ [Zapatista…
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