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Ostula: Autonomy, Self-Defense, Natural Resources and Narcos
The community recuperation of Xayakalan on the Michoacán Coast is about their lands, guards and autonomy All kinds of interests cross each other within their territory: the governments seek to implement highway projects that facilitate the shipment of merchandise and…
Read MoreRaúl Zibechi: Reclaiming the Strategic Debate
RECLAIMING THE STRATEGIC DEBATE By: Raúl Zibechi It seems evident that we are before a turn of history. What happens in the next few years, added to what is already happening, will have a long-term effect. What we…
Read MoreNew Zapatista Magazine – Rebeldía Zapatista
New publication: Rebeldía Zapatista: The Voice of the EZLN MARCH 1, 2014 Editorial by Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés for the first edition of Rebeldía Zapatista, the Word of the EZLN We rebellious Zapatistas, along with our mother earth, are threatened with destruction…
Read MoreZapatista News Summary for February 2014
FEBRUARY 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. Catholic Nuns Assaulted in Attack on Zapatista Community – During the first two days of February, reports started to come out about a January 30 attack on the Zapatista community of 10…
Read MoreNuns Assaulted in attack on 10 de Abril Zapatista community
Nuns Assaulted in attack on 10 de Abril ejido, and are impeded from attending to the injured ** They retain an ambulance, a pickup truck, the driver and a doctor, in Chiapas community ** Attempts to take possession of Zapatista…
Read MoreViejo Velasco Massacre, 7 Years Later
Impunity Prevails 7 Years After the Viejo Velasco Suárez Massacre By: Hermann Bellinghausen Palenque, Chiapas, January 30, 2014 Seven years after the ignored massacre of defenseless and peaceful Indigenous in Viejo Velasco Suárez community, in the Lacandón Jungle in the…
Read MoreZapatista News Summary – January 2014
JANUARY 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. Zapatistas Celebrate 20 Years of Resistance! – On January 1, 2014, the Zapatistas celebrated the 20th anniversary of their Rebellion and Resistance. They hosted approximately 5,000 students between the 2 Escuelitas, one…
Read MoreZapatistas: twenty years after
ZAPATISTAS: TWENTY YEARS AFTER By: Luis Hernández Navarro Winds are blowing today, similar to those that blew 20 years ago in the Mexican elites. At that time Carlos Salinas de Gortari felt invincible, much like Enrique Peña Nieto does today….
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