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Pantelhó, narco-paramilitaries and indigenous self-defense
By: Luis Hernández Navarro They executed Simón Pedro Pérez López at the market in Simojovel, Chiapas. The crime was the work of a professional. From a moving motorcycle, a hitman (sicario) shot him in the head with an accurate bullet….
Read MorePopular self-defense group emerges in Pantelhó against organized crime
Above photo: El Machete Self-Defense group in Pantelhó “OUR PATIENCE IS EXHAUSTED, THEY HAVE KILLED 200 OF OUR PEOPLE” By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal de Las Casas Chiapas A group called “Autodefensas del pueblo El Machete” (El Machete Peoples’ Self-Defense…
Read MoreZapatista Community Denounces Dispossession and Harassment; Sees Hope in the Journey of Squadron 421
Above: Collective mural about the Journey for Life in the autonomous community of Nuevo San Gregorio. Photo: Sexta Grietas del Norte The community of Nuevo San Gregorio, in Zapatista Caracol 10, denounces the increasing harassment they are experiencing after being…
Read MoreLand & Freedom 2021! Solidarity with the Zapatistas’ Tour for Life
By Michael Löwy. Posted in Camino al andar. July 4, 2021. We are many in this old European continent saluting the Tour for Life of the Zapatista comrades. Due to its global, planetary nature, the Zapatista tour is a historic…
Read MoreVOLANTEM EST ALIO GRADIENDI MODE (What are we waiting for?)
Any day, any month of any year. Droughts Floods Earthquakes Eruptions Contamination. Current and future pandemics. Assassinations of leaders of native peoples, defenders of human rights, guardians of the Earth. Gender violence escalating to genocide against women -the stupid suicide…
Read MoreOtroa Compañeroas | Gender fluidity: A contemporary emergence with ancestral roots
By Sylvia Marcos Published originally in Camino al andar. June 20, 2021. … we know well that there are those who are neither men nor women and that we call them Otroas … and it has not been easy for…
Read MoreThe Journey for Life: Where Are We Going?
A clarification: Many times, when we use “los Zapatistas” we are not referring to the men, but to the Zapatista peoples. And when we use “las Zapatistas”, we are not describing women, but the Zapatista communities. So you will find…
Read MoreThe EZLN mission docks in Galicia, which it renames “Insubordinate Land”
By: Armando G. Tejeda Madrid At 6:10 in the afternoon –European time–, Squadron 421, made up of the Zapatista delegation that sailed the seas to travel from Mexico to this continent, set foot on terra firma in Vigo, one of…
Read MoreTime and Zapatismo
By: Sergio Rodríguez Lazcano Photo: Francisco Lion How much time did the Zapatistas take to decide something as important and transcendental as it is to tour the world to dialogue, to listen, to see, to feel, to probe, to know,…
Read MoreLetter from the Zapatista Sixth Commission to “The Hour of the Peoples Has Come” Collective
By SupGaleano May you all receive a hug… well, several. We wanted to send you a greeting… ok, several, and, taking advantage of the flight of these letters, to ask for your support. It turns out that, for the Journey…
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