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Frayba: The opaqueness and inaction of the Mexican State is an imminent threat to peace in Chiapas
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, MéxicoMay 26, 2023Bulletin No. 12 Tension in Zapatista territory On January 1, 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) took up arms, declaring war on the Mexican State, fighting for…
Read MoreAMLO issues new decree so that mega-projects are considered as national security
By: Desinformémonos Editors May 19, 2023 Mexico City | Desinformémonos President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) issued a new decree considering the federal government’s infrastructure projects to be national security matters, just hours after the Supreme Court of Justice of…
Read MoreIn Mexico, Mining Law Reform is “Half-Baked”
By: Renata Bessi President Andrés Manuel López Obrador published, on May 8th in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), the reforms to the Mining, National Waters, Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection, and Prevention and Integral Waste Management Laws, approved…
Read MorePronouncement of the International Gathering El Sur Resiste May 7, 2023
¡EL SUR RESISTE 2023/ THE SOUTH RESISTS! CARAVAN INTERNATIONAL GATHERING OF THE SOUTH/SOUTHEAST “Global corporate capitalism, Planetary patriarchy, Autonomies in rebellion” CIDECI-UNITIERRA / CARACOL JACINTO CANEKMay 7, 2023PRONOUNCEMENTTo the General Command of the EZLNTo the National Indigenous CongressTo the Indigenous…
Read MoreJosé Luis and César sentenced to 2 years in prison for defending their territory from militarization
This is one of several events that occurred during the El Sur Resiste | The South Resists Caravan and International Gathering and, thus delayed our reporting. By: Yessica Morales Both human rights defenders were repressed by state police, tortured and…
Read MoreDay 9: Xpujil, Campeche – The Army reconfigures Maya territory illegally
On day 9 of the El Sur Resiste | The South Resists caravan, we visited the Xpujil [1] community, Calakmul, Campeche; one of the places where section 7 of the Maya Train project is being built and has one of…
Read MoreThe narco’s shadow extends throughout the Lacandón Jungle
By: Ángeles Mariscal Crime has been incrusted in the recesses of the Chiapas jungle and advances non-stop throughout the State, under the cover of omissions, bureaucracy and lack of political will of governments. “They left us alone to face this…
Read MoreLacandón comuneros accuse Julia Carabias of seeking to divide and confront them
By: Isaín Mandujano Authorities of the Lacandón Zone’s Communal Assets (LZCA), [also known as the Lacandón Zone Commons], denounced that with legal devices and influence peddling, the environmentalist Julia Carabias Lillo, through her civil organizations, Natura and Mexican Ecosystems, intends…
Read MoreEl sur resiste | The south resists: Gathering on the Zapatista & Indigenous struggles against mega-projects
El sur resiste | The south resists Updates on the Zapatista movement & land justice struggles in México: On the CNI campaign to stop the “Maya Train” & Inter-Oceanic Corridor An Evening of Solidarity, Poetry & Zapatismo At Medicine for…
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