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
Fourteenth Part and Second Approach Alert: The (other) Rule of the Excluded Third Party. November 2023. The meeting was a year ago. One early morning in November. It was cold. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés arrived at the chambers of the Captaincy…
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Category: Autonomy, Capitalism, Collapse, Communications, Counterinsurgency, Democracy, Disappearance, Dispossession, Extractive Model, Extreme Right Politics, EZLN, Immigration, Imperialism, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Internal colonialism, Megaprojects, Migration, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Patriarchy, Perpetual War, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Self-defense, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Zapatismo, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Tour, Zapatista Words, 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: Miguel Tinker Salas* and Luis Duno Gottberg** Dehumanizing the other is a step prior to the violation of their human rights. The transformation of the immigrant experience into an abstract statistic, into a criminal act, into an excuse to…
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A La Jornada Editorial It is devastating that episodes have become increasingly frequent in which dozens of people lose their lives at some point in their journey to reach US territory, and that many of them meet a tragic end…
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From the editorial desk of La Jornada Once again, the immigration issue exposes the hypocrisy, disdain for human rights, manipulation and cruelty of US leaders. Since Wednesday, the policy of granting conditional humanitarian freedom to Venezuelans entering the United States…
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By: Renata Bessi In the last six months an agenda of work and meetings between the seven governors of south-southeast Mexico, federal government agencies, representatives of the governments of the United States and Canada, as well as companies from these…
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Above is a scene from the aftermath of a semi-trailed packed with migrants overturning on a highway in Chiapas, leaving 56 dead and at least 100 injured. By: Raúl Romero* “We migrants are not criminals, we are international workers,” sang…
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Luis Hernández Navarro In Tres Veces Mojado (Three times a Wetback), Los Tigres del Norte, those essential chroniclers of the migrant feelings and experiences, sing and tell the story and the sacrifices of a Salvadoran in search of the American…
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Above Photo: Courtesy of Avispa Midia – With regard to the distribution of forces in national territory, the majority of General Coordination Units and personnel are found in the South and Southeast of the country. From: Editorial Staff: Yessica Morales…
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Category: Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, Immigration, Maya Train, Mexico-U.S. Relations, militarization, Organized Crime, Social Control
Tags: Chiapas, Mexican Southeast, Tabasco, Yucatán Peninsula
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