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Stop the Repression of the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico!
To the Mexican people: To the peoples of the world: To the Sixth in Mexico and abroad: To the media: We denounce that on February 15 at approximately 1:20hrs, the repressive agents of the bad government including the National Guard,…
Read MorePuebla police and the National Guard reclaim Bonafont plant
Workers clean the Bonafont water plant, reclaimed yesterday morning by members of the Puebla police, with the support of the National Guard, after evicting members of the Union of Peoples of Cholula who had renamed that space as the House…
Read MoreThe Altepelmecalli in Puebla: from a Bonafont plant to a symbol of Resistance
The peoples’ struggle to stop the extraction of water will complete one year By: Hermann Bellinghausen Cuanalá, Puebla Resistance is breathed when one reaches it. A bottling plant used to operate on this central property in the semi-rural municipality of…
Read MoreNeoindigenism and the 4T
By: Gilberto López y Rivas In these times of the Fourth Transformation (4T), [1] in which the head of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI), Adelfo Regino, former advisor to the EZLN during the San Andres dialogue, criminalizes the…
Read MoreCommuniqué of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee-General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army
[Admin: Bishop Samuel Ruiz García died 10 years ago, on January 24, 2011. Below, we re-publish the EZLN’s communiqué issued upon his death with English interpretation.] January 2011 To the people of Mexico: The Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee-General Command of…
Read MoreCNI-CIG obtains provisional suspension of presidential agreement on mega-projects
By: Isaín Mandujano The National Indigenous Congress and the Indigenous Government Council (CNI-CIG) announced that a federal judge granted them a provisional suspension of the presidential agreement that declares the federal government’s public works and projects [matters] of public interest…
Read MoreThey document attacks on a Zapatista community in the Lacandón Jungle
Zapatistas of Nuevo San Gregorio By: Isaín Mandujano Today, a network of organizations, collectives and networks, adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandón Jungle, denounced the constant aggressions that an indigenous Zapatista community settled in the Chiapas jungle has…
Read MoreEmergency Appeal: Stand with the Indigenous & Zapatista Communities to Stop the Paramilitary Violence
The Chiapas Support Committee is inviting you to join us in taking urgent action NOW to stand in solidarity with Indigenous and Zapatista communities in Chiapas. The Indigenous communities are being attacked by paramilitary forces in collusion with and support…
Read MoreIndigenous anti-capitalist resistance and the Zapatista journey
By: Magdalena Gomez Today, wherever we look at indigenous peoples, we will find the diversity of their resistance. Some, daily and punctual; others, strategic and long-range. At the same time, we will observe a similar pattern in the ongoing responses…
Read MoreElect new president in Oxchuc; armed group irrupts and leaves one dead
By: Isaín Mandujano One person died and a civilian armed group irrupted, after the indigenous people of Oxchuc came to blows, following the voting by a show of hands, where the Community Electoral Body of Oxchuc Municipality (OECMO, its initials…
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