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Chiapas and the Zapatistas face a dramatic increase in violence, Update on Counterinsurgency
By: Mary Ann Tenuto SánchezJuly 28, 2023 At the end of August 2022 and early in October 2022, the Chiapas Support Committee published a two-part report on the dramatic increase in violence in the Mexican state of Chiapas, home to…
Read MoreZibechi: The end of the landscape (during the battle)
By Raúl Zibechi When the war began, a timely communique from the EZLN analyzing the first days of the conflict concluded this way: “The war must stop now. If it is maintained and, predictably, scaled, then there may be no…
Read MoreIndigenous groups demand a stop to the attacks on EZLN communities
By: Jessica Xantomila Members of the original peoples of Querétaro, Puebla and the state of Mexico, members of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), Installed a political-cultural sit-in in front of the National Palace, for about 12 hours, to demand an…
Read MoreTestimony before the Inter-American Court: The War Against the Zapatista Peoples
By: Hermann Bellinghausen AFFIDAVIT BEFORE THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (REF.: CDH-5-2022/027). TESTIMONY FOR GONZÁLEZ MÉNDEZ V. MEXICO May 2023 I base this testimony on my daily experience as a reporter, permanent envoy of the national newspaper La Jornada…
Read MoreFrayba demands the release of an EZLN support base, a prisoner in Catazaja
By: Elio Henríquez, correspondentSan Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba), demanded the liberation of José Díaz Gómez, an indigenous support base of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de…
Read MoreSome thoughts on the killings in Polhó
For many of us who care about and support the Zapatista struggle, the killings in Polhó were both a shock and a realization of how much things have changed in that corner of Chiapas. Reports on the killings left us…
Read MoreZibechi: The impotence of the states
By: Raúl Zibechi We are accustomed to the fact that defenders of state-centric policy publicize the actions of states, emphasizing their achievements and omitting state criminality, which is usually attributed to drug trafficking groups and armed gangs that multiply thanks…
Read MoreChiapas: “Necro-power” and paramilitarism
By: Carlos Fazio The Fourth Transformation’s “humanism” did not reach the Mexican southeast. Chiapas is a powder keg about to explode. And not because of the absence of the State: given that it is a territory of great geopolitical and…
Read MoreIn Baja, Veracruz and Puebla, activists demand a stop to the paramilitary attacks on EZLN communities
The official denialism favors impunity of the aggressors: Frayba By: Antonio Heras, CorrespondentMexicali, Baja California On Sunday morning, members of the Mexicali Resissste Movement protested the armed attacks against communities of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de…
Read MoreInter-American Court for Human Rights and forced displacement
By: Magdalena Gómez Within the very broad cases and situations of human rights violations in our country, a campaign is underway that seeks to stop the war in Chiapas against the Zapatista communities, without this war only affecting them, but…
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