Chiapas Support Committee

Category: EZLN


EZLN: And meanwhile in the partisan communities

ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY Mexico February 2016 To the compañer@s of the Sixth To whom it may concern Compas and non-compas: What we tell you comes from the very own voice of indigenous partisans that live in the different zones…

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Pope Francisco says mass in San Cristóbal

FRANCISCO CALLS FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE INDIGENOUS AND ASKING THEIR FORGIVENESS By: Hermann Bellinghausen San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas With his presence Pope Francisco made a broad vindication of the indigenous people, about whom, he said, “we have much…

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People of Faith in resistance await Pope Francisco in Chiapas

BELIEVING PEOPLE IN RESISTANCE AWAIT POPE FRANCISCO IN CHIAPAS By: Enriqueta Lerma Rodríguez February 2, 2016 Beyond the condemning discourses about the Pope’s visit to Chiapas, accusing the event as a form of control of the masses that responds to…

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Child victims of the war in Chiapas

A PUBLIC APOLOGY WITHOUT THE AGGRESSOR PRESENT; THEY ACCUSE THE ARMED FORCED OF BEING A POWER SUPERIOR TO THE CIVILIAN By: Angeles Mariscal Ever since military personnel arrived in Chiapas in 1994 to carry out actions against the Zapatista National…

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Zibechi: A Left for Century XXI

By: Raúl Zibechi In the ‘60s and ‘70s, those who joined the militancy often heard a phrase: “Being like Che.” An ethic was synthesized with that, a conduct, a mode of assuming the collective action the personage inspired that –with…

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San Francisco Teopisca defends its land

AFTER 19 YEARS OF DEFENDING THEIR LAND, PROVOCATIONS CONTINUE AGAINST SAN FRANCISCO TEOPISCA, AN ADHERENT TO THE SIXTH “We place responsibility on the 3 levels of government for what can happen to any one of our compañeros for not giving…

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Zibechi: Movements facing the end of the democracies

By: Raúl Zibechi In his first 2016 article, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, Paul Krugman, analyzes the consequences of the domination of the oligarchy’s money in his country’s political system. Under the title “Privileges, pathology and power”…

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Esteva: Disputing politics

By: Gustavo Esteva gustavoesteva@gmail.com It will be a year of intense political dispute, in the midst of war. But the dispute among the politicians will be irrelevant. What will be important is disputing politics itself, reclaiming it. On the surface,…

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Accuse Tila mayor of reactivating paramilitaries

THEY ACCUSE THE MAYOR OF TILA OF REACTIVATING THE PAZ Y JUSTICIA PARAMILITARY GROUP From the Correspondents Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas Tila ejido owners, adherents of the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandón Jungle accused municipal president Edgar Leopoldo Gómez Gutiérrez of reactivating…

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Chiapas movement denounces megaprojects

[Below is a denunciation written by people of faith opposed to the government’s “development” plans for Eastern Chiapas because they will cause displacement of indigenous communities and harm to the environment and public health.] Movement in Defense of Life and…

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