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Category: Indigenous Rights
Reconstructing hope
By: Gustavo Esteva How do we contend with the mood that is spreading, molded by the mixture of fear and false hopes instilled by the verbal incontinence and theater of the candidates and political parties? The oppressive repetition of the…
Read MoreParamilitary Fire
By: Gloria Muñoz Ramírez* Tzotzils from different communities within the municipality of Aldama, Chiapas, have been under fire from gunshots for more than a week and the government does nothing. The lives of men, women and children are in danger….
Read MoreDispatches from Resistant Mexico
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Read MoreWater and indigenous peoples
By: Francisco López Bárcenas Last March 22 we celebrated World Water Day, so declared by the United Nations Organization to foment awareness in humanity about the importance of the vital liquid for the continuity of life on the planet. It…
Read MoreUN condemns deaths due to the attack on displaced Tsotsils in Chiapas Highlands
By the Editorial Staff MEXICO CITY The Mexico Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights of (UN-HR) lamented the loss of human lives “as a consequence de los continuous attacks of armed groups” against the indigenous civilian…
Read MoreTransnationals and indigenous peoples in struggle
By: Magdalena Gómez Citizens in our country are living in campaign season, even without being members of any political party. The campaign that I refer to is not that of messages or promises that are expressed in speeches with few…
Read MoreFrayba denounces new forced displacement of 90 families in Chiapas
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Center (Frayba) denounced that a civilian armed group of Chenalhó provoked the forced displacement of some 90 Tsotsil families from a community in the neighbor municipality of Aldama,…
Read MoreThe Mayor of Oxchuc is removed and new municipal council elected
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (proceso.com.mx) – The State Congress took away her constitutional protection (immunity from prosecution) and removed María Gloria Sánchez Gómez from her elected position as mayor of Oxchuc, and also removed her entire county council;…
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