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Category: Megaprojects

The military industrial complex

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Above: Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, inspects work on the Maya Train with military personnel. By: Raúl Romero On January 17, 1961 upon concluding his term as president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a speech about…

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The Tseltal communities that resist the National Guard

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Text and photos: Orsetta Bellani in Pie de Página The Chilón Community Government is opposed to the megaprojects and the presence of National Guard barracks, which has now been constructed by order of Sedena, [1] thus violating the right of…

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 Category: Counterinsurgency, Maya Train, militarization, Modevite, San Cristóbal-Palenque Superhighway, San Sebastián Bachajón      Tags: , ,

Llamado al gobierno mexicano de poner fin y desmantelar guerra paramilitar contra comunidades indígenas y zapatistas

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Alto a la guerra paramilitar contra las comunidades indígenas y zapatistas Alto a los megaproyectos e industrias extractivas en territorios indígenas y zapatistas To read the version in English, click here: End all Mexican Government support & disband the paramilitary…

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 Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, Capitalism, CNI, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Counterinsurgency, Displacement, Extractive Model, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Las Abejas, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, militarization, Mining, NAFTA, NAFTA, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary Violence, PIM (Morelos Integral Project), Pueblo Creyente/Believing People, Repression, Resumenes en español, Territory, Zapatistas    

Call on the Mexican government to stop & disband paramilitary war on Zapatista & Indigenous communities

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End the Paramilitary War on Zapatista and Indigenous Communities Stop all megaprojects and extractive industries on Zapatista and Indigenous territories Para leer la versión en español, haga clic aquí: Alto a la guerra paramilitar contra las comunidades indígenas y zapatistas…

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 Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Autonomy, Capitalism, Counterinsurgency, Displacement, Extractive Model, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Kidnapping, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico-U.S. Relations, militarization, Mining, Murder, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Perpetual War, PIM (Morelos Integral Project), Territory, Zapatistas    

Amidst soldiers and cartels, academia examines the rising violence in the Southeast

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Above Photo: Courtesy of Avispa Midia – With regard to the distribution of forces in national territory, the majority of General Coordination Units and personnel are found in the South and Southeast of the country. From: Editorial Staff: Yessica Morales…

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 Category: Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, Immigration, Maya Train, Mexico-U.S. Relations, militarization, Organized Crime, Social Control      Tags: , , ,

Brief chronology of paramilitary violence in Chiapas

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In the last several years, and escalating during 2021, paramilitary attacks on indigenous communities where civilian Zapatista supporters and sympathizers live have intensified and they have done so with impunity. In September, the EZLN warned that the paramilitary violence was…

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 Category: Access to Water, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Autonomy, Capitalism, CNI, Collective Rights, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Dispossession, Extractive Model, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Kidnapping, Megaprojects, Mexico's Social Movements, militarization, Mining, Murder, NAFTA, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary Violence, Perpetual War, Social Control, Territory, Zapatistas    

The Maya Train’s development poles will destroy the richness, biodiversity and geomorphology of territories

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By: Yessica Morales Ana Esther Ceceña, Coordinator of the Latin American Observatory of Geopolitics at the Institute for Economic Research, announced that given the Maya Train Comprehensive Development Project, the federal government proposes to reorder the productive, commercial, tourist and…

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 Category: Congreso Nacional Indigena, Environment/ecology, Maya Train, National Indigenous Congress      Tags: ,

“The Supreme Court ruling against pig farms, a door for the protection of Maya ecology”

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LAWYER: A NATIONAL EXAMPLE IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAWSUITS THAT NATIVE PEOPLES USED TO LOSE Above is a government map of pig farms in the Mexican state of Yucatán. By: Blanche Petrich A score of Yucatán peoples listened carefully to the May…

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 Category: Access to Water, Collective Rights, Environment/ecology, Health, Indigenous Rights, Maya Train      Tags: , ,

Supreme Court orders construction of a pig farm in Yucatán to stop

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Photo: Homún residents protest against the pig farm Text by: Eduardo Murillo La Jornada | May 20, 2021 The construction of a mega pig farm in Homún, Yucatán, will remain stopped because the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation…

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Journey for Life versus Military Accumulation

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  By: Gilberto López y Rivas While the EZLN’s 421st Maritime Squadron prepares to launch on May 3rd in the ship called La Montaña for the port of Vigo, Spain, to meet with the Europe of those from below, in…

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