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San Miguel del Progreso and the heart of darkness
By: Luis Hernández Navarro Malinaltepec is known as one of the municipalities in La Montaña of Guerrero with the greatest social inequality. Its residents lack sufficient nutrition, good health, dignified housing and adequate public services. Now it will also be…
Read MoreLópez y Rivas: The time has come
By: Gilberto López y Rivas As always, the important comunicado of the National Indigenous Congress and the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (CNI–EZLN), “The time has come,” dated last May 28, went unperceived in the large communications media and particularly…
Read MoreIndigenous Government Council
By: Magdalena Gómez Last weekend, the constitutive assembly of the Indigenous Government Council (CIG, its initials in Spanish) of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) was held in the Cideci in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. 1,252 representatives from indigenous…
Read MoreMaría de Jesús Patricio, the CIG’s spokesperson
By: Luis Hernández Navarro María de Jesús Patricio is an indigenous Nahua woman. Born in 1963 in the municipality of Tuxpan (land of the rabbit), Jalisco. She will be 54 years old next December. She is the mother of three…
Read MoreCNI | EZLN Solidarity and support for our brothers and sisters of the Wixárika people
To the Wixárika People To the Peoples of the World Gathered together in the Constitutive Assembly of the Indigenous Council for Mexico at CIDECI–UNITIERRA, Chiapas, the indigenous peoples, nations, and tribes who make up the National Indigenous Congress and the…
Read MoreEZLN: “Peña, an overseer at the service of capitalism”
The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) opened its participation in the seminar “The walls of capital and the cracks on the left” in Chiapas, with a “Fuck Trump” in the native languages of the women commanders on the Sixth Commission….
Read MoreTohono O’odham tribe files petition with IACHR against the wall
THE TOHONO O’ODHAM TRIBE GOES to the IACHR TO NOT BE DIVIDED BY THE BORDER WALL By: Roberto Garduño The Tohono O’odham [1] (people of the desert), who live in territories of Sonora and Arizona, filed a petition with the…
Read MoreAbsalón Castellanos dies; EZLN put him on trial in 1994
By: Isaín Mandujano The former Chiapas governor, Absalón Castellanos Domínguez, who the Zapatista National Liberation Army put on trial in 1994, died this afternoon at 93. His grandson with the same name, Absalón Castellanos Rodríguez, announced the death of the…
Read MoreTarahumaras faced with violence from organized crime seek asylum in US
By: Patricia Mayorga CHIHUAHUA, Chih. (apro). – The Rarámuri, Santiago Cruz Castillo, 26, requested political asylum in El Paso, Texas, after organized crime took away his lands in La Laguna de Aboreachi, municipality of Guachochi, like hundreds of indigenous and…
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