Category: Human Rights
AUGUST 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. Zapatista Exchange (Sharing) with the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) – The Zapatistas held an “exchange” (sharing) with the National Indigenous Congress (CNI, its initials in Spanish) in La Realidad between August 4…
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Category: Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, Dolores Hidalgo, EZLN, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, National Indigenous Congress, News Summaries
Tags: Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, La Realidad, Marcos, Mexico, Zapatistas
ORGANIZATIONS AGREE ON A PLAN OF ACTION IN DEFENSE OF LAND AND AGAINST THE REFORMS By: Javier Salinas Cesáreo, Correspondent San Salvador Atenco, Mexico, August 17, 2014 Representatives of some 100 campesino, union and social organizations, defined a plan of…
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FRAYBA DENOUNCES MORE DEATH THREATS AND DISPLACEMENTS IN SAN MANUEL (UPDATED) [Please sign on to a trusted Mexican Human Rights Network’s letter to the bad governments about the attacks in San Manuel.] http://www.redtdt.org.mx/d_acciones/d_visual.php?id_accion=358 We are “on alert” and very concerned about…
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First Declaration from the Exchange between the National Indigenous Congress and the Zapatista National Liberation Army on the Repression Against Our Peoples CNI – EZLN: We do not forget our dead, imprisoned, and disappeared. The war against our indigenous peoples…
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Category: Autonomy, Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Las Abejas, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress, Viejo Velasco, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, La Realidad, Mexico, political prisoners, Zapatistas
ZAPATISTAS REPUDIATE THE MASSACRE OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chis. (apro) – More than 300 representatives of indigenous peoples and some 1300 Zapatista support bases expressed their solidarity with the people of Palestine that are under…
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Category: Dispossession, Environment/ecology, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Mexico's Social Movements
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, Gaza, La Realidad, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Palestine, Zapatistas
THERE HAS BEEN STATE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE ZAPATISTAS, the PERMANENT TRIBUNAL of the PEOPLES CONCLUDES By: Hermann Bellinghausen, Envoy San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, July 19, 2014 In El Limonar community, in the jungle north of Ocosingo, they held…
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Category: Counterinsurgency, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Las Abejas, Viejo Velasco
Tags: Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, La Realidad, Mexico, Zapatistas
THEY WILL TAKE THE VIEJO VELASCO MASSACRE TO THE PERMANENT TRIBUNAL OF THE PEOPLES By: Hermann Bellinghausen San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, July 16, 2014 The Permanent Tribunal of the Peoples (TPP, its initials in Spanish) announced in a…
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ACNUR WANTS MEXICO TO CONSIDER MINORS TRAVELING TO THE U.S. AS REFUGEES By: Blanche Petrich ** They cannot be forcibly returned to their country if there is a risk: commissioner ** From January to June they have deported 8,239 without…
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“I AM A POLITICAL PRISONER,” MIRELES VALVERDE MAINTAINS By: Sanjuana Martínez, Special to La Jornada Doctor José Manuel Mireles Valverde laughs, cries, gets emotional when his lawyer Talía Vázquez Alatorre tells him about the shows of support that he is…
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[On Friday, June 27 around 5:30 PM, members of the federal police and the Mexican Army arrested Doctor José Manuel Mireles and 69 other autodefensas that were accompanying him, in the administrative district (tenencia) of La Mira. Around 30 federal…
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