Chiapas Support Committee
Home of the Compañero Manuel blog on zapatistas & mexico
Category: Maya Train
The South Resists | El Sur Resiste: The caravan begins
By: Pie de Página Text: Arturo Contreras Camero Indigenous peoples from the territories affected by the megaprojects of the López Obrador government will tour the points of greatest conflict throughout six southeast Mexican states. Their objective is to unite their…
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…
Read MoreMaking the path to walk
By: Raúl Romero* In October 2016,the National Indigenous Congress (CNI, Congreso Nacional Indígena) celebrated its fifth congress and 20 years of existence. Meeting in the Universidad de la Tierra, in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, delegates to the congress…
Read MoreEl Sur Resiste / The South Resists
Sunday, March 19, 2023 4 pm to 6 pm PDT Register here: https://tinyurl.com/Stop-Mega-Projects-Forum
Read MoreViolence against the Indigenous Peoples
By: Francisco López Bárcenas Popular predictions at the beginning of the year announced that January would bring storms, but few imagined the magnitude of them. The violence against indigenous peoples in this first month of 2023 has acquired such dimension…
Read MoreThe “national security” declaration for the Maya Train favors the violation of human rights
The “national security” declaration for the Maya Train [1] “has the potential to allow that human rights abuses” are maintained, and “also undermines the purpose of inclusive and sustainable social and economic development,” said the chair of the UN Working…
Read MoreFrom the Maya Train to sympathizers “with a foreign appearance,” Sedena’s constant siege against the Zapatistas
Leaked emails from Sedena (Mexico’s Secretary of National Defense) Have allowed us to know that the EZLN is one of the most besieged by military intelligence due to its posture of rejecting the megaprojects and government programs. By: Jacobo García…
Read MoreUS, Mexico and the geopolitics of oil
By: Carlos Fazio At the dawn of the 21st century, after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, United States president George W. Bush and his advisers sought to sustain the declining global political power of the…
Read More
Chiapas Support Committee 