By Lucie Cabins (For the Chiapas Support Committee: May, 2025) “Impunity is not the result of a weak or deficient state, but rather it is actively provided to the gamut of armed groups who commit crimes and acts of terror…
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Category: accumulation by dispossession, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, AMLO, Autonomy, Capitalism, Chamula Cartel, community, Counterinsurgency, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Criminalization\ of Migration, Disappearance, Displacement, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Lopez Obrador, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, migrants, Migration, militarization, Morena, Murder, Narco violence, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Private Armies, Resistance, San Cristóbal-Palenque Superhighway, Social Control, Surveillance, Territory, Torture, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Women, Zapatistas
Tags: history, Immigration, Mexico, news, politics
A report by the Chiapas Support Committee The Zapatistas have maintained autonomous self-government in their territories in Chiapas ever since the successful and unexpected uprising of 1994. Last year, for the third or fourth time since that uprising, the Zapatistas…
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Category: AMLO, Autonomy, Autonomy, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, Lo común, Lopez Obrador, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, migrants, militarization, Morena, Murder, National Indigenous Congress, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Repression, Resistance, Self-Determination, Sembrando Vida, The Common, US Drug Cartels, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, colonialism, Mexico, narco, Neoliberalism, news, politics
From the EZLN’s Capitán, at Enlace Zapatista. August 2024. Let’s assume, without conceding, that you can imagine the following: You were born in an indigenous town. In a community you acquired your language, your culture, your way. All this makes…
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Category: Autonomy, Capitalism, Chiapas Tourism, colonialism, Displacement, Extractive Model, Extreme Right Politics, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenism, Indigenous Rights, Megaprojects, Mexico's Social Movements, Morena, political prisoners, Racism, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Solidarity, Zapatismo, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
From El Capitán, EZLN, original here. The fig tree rubs its wind with the sandpaper of its branches,and the forest, cunning cat, bristles its brittle fibers. (Romance Sonámbulo.Federico García Lorca) Yes, the wind and the mountain seem to have known each other…
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Category: Capitalism, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Ixmucané, Maya Train, Resistance, Self-Determination, SLUMIL K'AJXEMK'OP, Solidarity, Votan, Zapatista Communiqué, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
By Carlos Manzo, Ojarasca The San Andrés Sakamch’en de los Pobres Accords, signed on February 16th, 1996 by the federal government and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), seem to be a matter forgotten by the Mexican State, political…
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Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Article 27 Counter-Reform, Autonomy, Autonomy, Dams, El Sur Resiste!, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Megaprojects, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress, San Andrés Accords, Self-Determination, Solidarity, The Common, Zapatismo, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, common, history, indigenoys, land, Mexico, non-property, politics, San Andrés Accords, Southeast Mexico, Territory, Zapatistas
By Mariana Mora | Originally published in Spanish by La Jornada Over the course of three decades, Zapatismo has managed to break through again and again into what appears to be the inevitable destiny of a historical outcome. Just when…
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Category: Access to Water, Autonomy, Collective Rights, Communications, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, EZLN History, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Mariana Mora, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Narco violence, Paramilitary Violence, Revolutionary Art, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, The Common, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatismo, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Women, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, history, Mexico, politics, Zapatistas
Fourteenth Part and Second Approach Alert: The (other) Rule of the Excluded Third Party. November 2023. The meeting was a year ago. One early morning in November. It was cold. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés arrived at the chambers of the Captaincy…
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Category: Autonomy, Capitalism, Collapse, Communications, Counterinsurgency, Democracy, Disappearance, Dispossession, Extractive Model, Extreme Right Politics, EZLN, Immigration, Imperialism, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Internal colonialism, Megaprojects, Migration, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Patriarchy, Perpetual War, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Self-defense, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Zapatismo, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Tour, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Mexico City | Desinformémonos. The Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI, National Indigenous Congress) – Consejo Indígena de Gobierno (CIG, Indigenous Council of Government) (CNI-CIG) have called for a global action to stop the war against the people of Mexico and the…
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Category: Access to Water, accumulation by dispossession, Acteal Massacre, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, Autonomy, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, CNI, Collective Rights, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Counterinsurgency, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Extractive Model, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Government Council, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, Mexico-U.S. Relations, militarization, Murder, Narco violence, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Patriarchy, Perpetual War, PIM (Morelos Integral Project), Police, Private Armies, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Uncategorized, Water, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatistas
By Gilberto López y Rivas, La Jornada The National Indigenous Congress (CNI, Congreso Nacional Indígena) and its Indigenous Council of Government (CIG, Consejo Indígena de Gobierno) made public a call to commemorate, this October 12, the 531 years of the…
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Category: Access to Water, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, Class Struggle, CNI, colonialism, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Criminalization\ of Migration, Demonstrations, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, Gilberto López y Rivas, Human Rights, Indigenous Government Council, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Internal colonialism, Marichuy, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, militarization, Mining, Murder, NAFTA, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Perpetual War, PIM (Morelos Integral Project), Police, Private Armies, Racism, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, The Political Class, Uncategorized, Violence Against Women and Girls, Women, Women in Resistance, Women's Rights, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
By: Gilberto López y Rivas First of all, I would like to highlight the non-consulted nature of the Tren Maya mega-project among the affected populations, which include original peoples protected by the Constitution and by international agreements, such as ILO…
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