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Category: EZLN
From Rojava to Chiapas
By: Raúl Romero* Kurdistan is a people with their own language and culture that live between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. For years and in different ways, these people have struggled for their self-determination. In the past, the Kurdish territories…
Read MoreThe Women Who Are No Longer With Us
Their histories Their joys and sorrows Their pain and rage Their memories and omissions Their laughter and tears Their presence and absence Their hearts Their hopes Their dignity Their calendars: The pages they were able to turn The ones they left…
Read MoreThe social commitment and ethical congruence of Pablo González Casanova
By: Gilberto López y Rivas On February 11, Pablo González Casanova, the most renowned and recognized intellectual in contemporary Mexico, celebrated 99 years of a life full of contributions to critical thinking about a social science committed to the oppressed…
Read More“San Andrés strengthened the processes of autonomy, with or without recognition from the State”
By Daliri Oropeza Twenty-five years have passed since the San Andrés Accords were signed. The agrarian lawyer Carlos González, founding member of the National Indigenous Congress, believes that the reality of Indigenous peoples changed following the signing of the document,…
Read MoreBackground: Conquest, national independence and indigenous emancipation [On internal colonialism]
By Francisco López Bárcenas This year marks 500 years since the fall of Tenochtitlan to the power of the Spanish invaders. That event initiated the conquest and subsequent colonization of all of Anahuac, the part of the continent known as…
Read MoreCNI warns of the country’s reorganization against the indigenous peoples
By: Daliri Oropeza The National Indigenous Congress decided in an assembly to accompany the EZLN’s tour to different continents and to go on the offensive faced with the political landscape that is pushing energy megaprojects and imposing a territorial reorganization…
Read MoreThe February betrayal, a sign of the war that continues
By: Pedro Faro Navarro* It wasn’t the EZLN that broke the dialogue and re-started the war.It was the government. It wasn’t the EZLN that feigned political will while it prepared the military and treacherous blow.It was the government. It wasn’t…
Read MoreThe San Andrés Accords, autonomy vs. neo-indigenism
By: Luis Hernández Navarro This February 16th marks the 25th anniversary of the signing of the San Andrés accords on indigenous rights and culture. Much has changed since then, but one thing remains: indigenism as a State policy. Indigenism is…
Read MoreThe war of attrition against the Zapatista communities
The strategy of the Andrés Manuel López Obrador Government is completed with the installation of new camps and National Guard bases in the Ocosingo region, which goes hand in hand with the reactivation of armed groups such as the ORCAO…
Read MoreBackground: The three gazes of the original peoples
In the Year 2-Covid 19, or Year Twenty-One-Reed [Aztec calendar] of the current century, many people in many places have lost their bearing. The semi-paralysis induced by the pandemic provided the State with a distinctly new twist in the unstoppable…
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