Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Human Rights


Ayotzinapa, 11 months of searching

  By: Emir Olivares y José Antonio Román [This is an abbreviated version of the La Jornada article cited below.] It has been 11 months of ‘‘rage, indignation, courage, dignity and search;” almost one year without knowing the whereabouts of…

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Ayotzinapa: discrediting the “historic truth”

LA JORNADA EDITORIAL Luis Raúl González Pérez, president of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), classified the investigation of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR, its initials in Spanish) into the disappearance of the 43 students from the Raúl…

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Frayba on Armed attacks in La Garrucha

FRAYBA DEMANDS INVESTIGATING ARMED ATTACK ON ZAPATISTA BASES It accuses groups from Pojcol and El Rosario of attempting to kill a little girl By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human…

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Ayotzinapa: key pieces of the official version fall apart

A Special Report By: Anabel Hernández and Steve Fisher A key piece in the version that the PGR has published after the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students is that the students were detained and taken to the base of the…

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EZLN: Thank you, part III

THANK YOU PART III: The Most Expensive Building in the World Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés. Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano February-March, 2015 It is the eve of the big day… in the wee hours of the morning. The cold bites under the cover…

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Raúl Zibechi; The lefts, ethics and racism

THE LEFTS, ETHICS AND RACISM  By: Raúl Zibechi “The police have to decide at every moment (…) to have the cool and calm necessary for making the right decision. It’s like the striker in front of the goal that attempts…

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Police kill migrant farmworker in Pasco, Washington

WASHINGTON POLICE SHOOTING IGNITES CROSS-BORDER CONTROVERSY  By fnsnews | Published February 16, 2015 The fatal police shooting of an unarmed Mexican migrant in Washington State has stirred renewed attention south of the border on the use of deadly force by…

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U.N. Committee issues report on Mexico’s disappearances

U.N. URGES MEXICO TO CREATE AN ATTORNEY GENERAL’S UNIT AGAINST ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES By: Afp and Dpa (agencies) Geneva. The UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances [1] recommended to Mexico the creation of a “an attorney general’s unit specialized in investigating forced…

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Citizen groups propose new Constitution in Mexico

Proposal for a popular citizens convention to re-found Mexico By: Agencies In Mexico City, Bishop Raúl Vera López, activists, clergy, members of campesino, union and social organizations and survivors of the violence that envelops Mexico presented the initiative of a Popular Citizens…

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Zapatista News Summary for January 2015

 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY for JANUARY 2015 In Chiapas  1. EZLN Issues New Years Comunicado – We received the EZLN’s comunicado: “Words on its 21st Anniversary of the Beginning of the War against Oblivion” in English the first week in January. Sup…

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