By Lucie Cabins (For the Chiapas Support Committee: May, 2025) “Impunity is not the result of a weak or deficient state, but rather it is actively provided to the gamut of armed groups who commit crimes and acts of terror…
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Category: accumulation by dispossession, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, AMLO, Autonomy, Capitalism, Chamula Cartel, community, Counterinsurgency, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Criminalization\ of Migration, Disappearance, Displacement, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Lopez Obrador, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, migrants, Migration, militarization, Morena, Murder, Narco violence, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Private Armies, Resistance, San Cristóbal-Palenque Superhighway, Social Control, Surveillance, Territory, Torture, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Women, Zapatistas
Tags: history, Immigration, Mexico, news, politics
From the EZLN’s Capitán, at Enlace Zapatista. August 2024. Let’s assume, without conceding, that you can imagine the following: You were born in an indigenous town. In a community you acquired your language, your culture, your way. All this makes…
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Category: Autonomy, Capitalism, Chiapas Tourism, colonialism, Displacement, Extractive Model, Extreme Right Politics, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenism, Indigenous Rights, Megaprojects, Mexico's Social Movements, Morena, political prisoners, Racism, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Solidarity, Zapatismo, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
By Danae Fonseca, originally published in El Salto The Zapatista and Palestinian struggles share hallmarks of identity: territory, dispossession as a shared form of oppression, and the importance of memory and history to imaging other futures I don’t know how…
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Category: Access to Water, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, colonialism, community, Displacement, Dispossession, EZLN, Gaza, Genocide, Imperialism, Neoliberalism, Palestine, Resistance, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, The Common, Zapatismo, Zapatista Escuelitas, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatistas
Tags: Human Rights, israel, Mexico, Palestine, politics
By Rocio Moreno* | Desinformémonos The inhabitants of Abya Yala know what genocide is. 500 years ago, with the European invasion in our territories, we not only suffered displacement from our lands, languages and ways of thinking, but also violence…
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Category: colonialism, Disappearance, Displacement, Education, Human Rights, Imperialism, Indigenous Rights, Racism, Resistance
Tags: Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, Indigenous People, Indigenous Rights, israel, Mexico, Palestine, Self-determination
By Desinformemonos | February 12, 2024 Mexico City | Desinformémonos. Residents of the autonomous region of Moisés & Gandhi, Chiapas, reported a new armed attack against the Support Bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (BAEZLN) by the Regional…
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Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Autonomy, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, militarization, ORCAO, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Repression, Resistance, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Zapatista bases of support
Tags: AMLO, Autonomous Government, Chiapas, EZLN, land, Mexico, ORCAO, Paramilitary Attacks, Paramilitary Groups, politics, Self-determination, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatistas
by Elio Henriquez, La Jornada correspondent | February 3, 2024 San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. The National Network of Civil Human Rights Organizations “All Rights for All” (Red TDT, Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos Todos los…
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Category: Collective Rights, Disappearance, Displacement, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, militarization, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Repression, Self-determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, EZLN, Mexico, news, ORCAO, politics, Zapatista bases of support
Mexico City | Desinformémonos. The Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI, National Indigenous Congress) – Consejo Indígena de Gobierno (CIG, Indigenous Council of Government) (CNI-CIG) have called for a global action to stop the war against the people of Mexico and the…
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Category: Access to Water, accumulation by dispossession, Acteal Massacre, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, Autonomy, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, CNI, Collective Rights, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Counterinsurgency, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Extractive Model, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Government Council, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, Mexico-U.S. Relations, militarization, Murder, Narco violence, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Patriarchy, Perpetual War, PIM (Morelos Integral Project), Police, Private Armies, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Uncategorized, Water, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatistas
By Gilberto López y Rivas, La Jornada The National Indigenous Congress (CNI, Congreso Nacional Indígena) and its Indigenous Council of Government (CIG, Consejo Indígena de Gobierno) made public a call to commemorate, this October 12, the 531 years of the…
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Category: Access to Water, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, Class Struggle, CNI, colonialism, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Criminalization\ of Migration, Demonstrations, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, Gilberto López y Rivas, Human Rights, Indigenous Government Council, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Internal colonialism, Marichuy, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, militarization, Mining, Murder, NAFTA, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Perpetual War, PIM (Morelos Integral Project), Police, Private Armies, Racism, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, The Political Class, Uncategorized, Violence Against Women and Girls, Women, Women in Resistance, Women's Rights, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
By Emilio Godoy / IPS Photo Caption: The megaproject places greater pressure on water resources in a region where abundance and overexploitation of the resource coexist. For example, according to Conagua figures, of the 21 aquifers in Oaxaca, five register…
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Category: Access to Water, Capitalism, CNI, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Consultation, Democracy, Displacement, Extractive Model, Health, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Maya Train, Megaprojects, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Repression, Resistance, Solidarity, special economic zones, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Water
Tags: AMLO, Indigenous People, Interoceanic Corridor, Maya Train, Mega-Project, Mexico, Oaxaca, Southeast Mexico, Water
By Renata Bessi Original in Spanish published by Avispa Midia, August 16, 2023 Panel of community speakers at the Puente Madera Oaxaca Foro Político Cultura de Rebeldías y Resistencias held during the El Sur Resiste Caravan (April 2023). On August…
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Category: accumulation by dispossession, Autonomy, Collective Rights, Communications, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Disappearance, Displacement, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Territory
Chiapas Support Committee 