Category: Luis Hernández Navarro
[Comment from an administrator of this blog: As you read this article, it would seem appropriate to remember that the U.S. government has urged and participated in Mexico’s so-called “Drug War” and financially supports Mexico’s Narco-State with beaucoup bucks while…
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CNI and EZLN: UNITED AGAINST DISPOSSESSION By: Luis Hernández Navarro Gatherings of popular organizations are celebrated practically every month in the most hidden corners of the country. In them it is sought to confront the dispossession of their lands, territories…
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Category: Dispossession, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Luis Hernández Navarro, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, La Realidad, Latin America, Zapatistas
[To Our Readers: Mexico’s Congress recently passed energy “reforms” into law. They are structural reforms that functionally undo major accomplishments of the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution. Luis Hernández Navarro, editor of La Jornada’s Opinion section, analyzes the effect on rural life.]…
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Category: Dispossession, Indigenous Rights, Luis Hernández Navarro, Mexico's Social Movements, Mining
Tags: Capitalism, environment, free trade agreements, Latin America, Mexico, Mexico's Energy Reform, Neoliberalism
GUERRERO: THE SIEGE AGAINST THE CRAC-PC By: Luis Hernández Navarro Relentlessly pursued by the government and internally divided, the community police and the systems of community justice of Guerrero are living through a grave crisis. Arbitrary arrests of its leaders…
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THE FAREWELL CEREMONY OF SUB MARCOS By: Luis Hernández Navarro Nothing is lost. All is transformed. The public reappearance and farewell of Subcomandante Marcos marks the end of an epoch in the Zapatista struggle. For a little more than…
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Category: Autonomy, Counterinsurgency, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Luis Hernández Navarro, Mexico's Social Movements
Tags: Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, La Realidad, Marcos, Zapatistas
APRIL 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. Zapatistas Release 2nd Issue of Rebeldía Zapatista – The Zapatistas have released another edition of the Rebeldía Zapatista magazine. The Zapatista bases that participated in the Escuelitas give their impressions of the…
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Luis Hernández Navarro speaks out on Venezuela Venezuela: cubs of reaction By: Luis Hernández Navarro Lorent Saleh is a 25-year old Venezuelan youth, with flaming language, who studied foreign trade. He is one of the visible heads of the coalition…
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ZAPATISTAS: TWENTY YEARS AFTER By: Luis Hernández Navarro Winds are blowing today, similar to those that blew 20 years ago in the Mexican elites. At that time Carlos Salinas de Gortari felt invincible, much like Enrique Peña Nieto does today….
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ZAPATISTAS: the wealth of dignity By: Luis Hernández Navarro
In the community of Emiliano Zapata in the Whirlwind of Our Words Caracol, 30 Zapatista families work collectively. They have in common a coffee plantation, vegetable gardens and about 350 head of cattle….
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[This Thursday (September 12), a Mexican Court rejected Alberto Patishtán’s appeal for a recognition of innocence. The article below appeared the next day in the Opinion section of La Jornada.] ALBERTO PATISHTÁN: MESSAGE from the STATE By: Luis Hernández Navarro…
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