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Category: Dispossession
Paramilitaries continue shooting at us, the displaced lament
In Chalchihuitán fear and dispossession live and breathe in 4,000 displaced By: Hermann Bellinghausen San Pablo Chalchihuitán, Chiapas “We don’t believe that negotiation is even useful. Just yesterday they fired shots in Pacanam, the problem has not ended,” says a…
Read More7,000 displaced due to violence in Chiapas
VIOLENCE AND DISPLACEMENTS ESCALATE DUE TO THE CONFLICT IN CHIAPAS A Special Report by: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) The director of the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba), Pedro Faro, warned that another massacre like…
Read MoreMarichuy, a very different campaign
By: Luis Hernández Navarro Some 21 years ago, on October 11, 1996, an indigenous Nahua from Jalisco read the political statement of the nascent National Indigenous Congress. In the name of more than 600 delegates coming from all over the…
Read More“Defense of land has brought us repression, threats and murders,” they denounce in Chiapas
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) Some five thousand men and women, members of San Pedro and San Pablo parishes of Chicomuselo, in the Sierra Madre of Chiapas, held a march-procession this Monday to protest against the extractive mining…
Read MorePeña Nieto decrees putting the first 3 special economic zones into operation
By: Alonso Urrutia Tapachula, Chiapas President Enrique Peña Nieto signed the decree by which the first three special economic zones: Tapachula, Coatzacoalcos and Lázaro Cárdenas, will enter into operation with a scheme of fiscal incentives to capture foreign and national…
Read MoreThe dispute for urban territory
By: Raúl Zibechi Seated in a round in which more than 100 persons participate, Mari launches a sentence that is, at the same time, a whole political program: “If those below don’t look at ourselves, no one else looks at…
Read MorePopolucas, Nahuas and Mestizos organize in Veracruz
INDIGENOUS REGIONAL MOVEMENT IN DEFENSE AND RESPECT FOR LIFE FIRST REGIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR THE DEFENSE OF TERRITORY AND THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLES OF THE SIERRA OF SANTA MARTA Soteapan, Veracruz, August 27, 2017 COMUNICADO The Popoluca, Nahua and Mestizo…
Read MoreSupreme councils in neoliberal times
By: Magdalena Gómez Three days ago, the National Indigenous Congress (CNI, its initials in Spanish) published the denunciation of the Indigenous Council of the Trueque (CIT, in Spanish) regarding the aggression (threats of violence and provocations) at the Tianguis of…
Read MoreThe offensive of above, versus the movement below
Those of us who are the National Indigenous Congress (CNI); indigenous peoples, nations, tribes and barrios of this country, make a call to the indigenous and non-indigenous peoples of Mexico, to the honest human rights organizations, to the communications media,…
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