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Category: Mexico’s Social Movements
The Maya Train’s development poles will destroy the richness, biodiversity and geomorphology of territories
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…
Read MoreThey liberate the 17 students and 2 displaced indigenous people, but prohibit political activism
By: Isaín Mandujano Today, a control judge of the El Amate Prison issued the binding to criminal proceedings of the 17 teachers college students (normalistas) and 2 displaced indigenous people, but granted them the precautionary measure of facing their proceedings…
Read MoreNew police eviction of Mactumactzá students
Chiapas police during the withdrawal of Mactumactzá Rural Teachers School students Photo: Juan Carlos Santiago Hernández By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal De Las Casas, Chiapas “The police came to attack us, to repress us,” a member of the student committee…
Read MoreThe EZLN prepares to tour Europe; the journey starts April 26
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) The Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) set a date for the tour that it will take to Europe in order to extend processes of reflection and analysis about…
Read MoreStop Paramilitary Violence in San Antonio Bulujib, Chilon, Chiapas
MARCH 15, 2021 TO THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO TO THE NETWORKS OF RESISTANCE AND REBELLION TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SIXTH TO THE MEDIA. TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS. TO THE ORGANIZATIONS IN DEFENSE OF THE TERRITORY AND MOTHER EARTH….
Read MoreCNI warns of the country’s reorganization against the indigenous peoples
By: Daliri Oropeza The National Indigenous Congress decided in an assembly to accompany the EZLN’s tour to different continents and to go on the offensive faced with the political landscape that is pushing energy megaprojects and imposing a territorial reorganization…
Read MoreZapatismo and the struggle for life
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) announced a new political initiative in October of 2020 that makes up another link in the chain of anti-capitalist rebellion that they have continued to move forward in the past twenty-seven years of…
Read MoreModevite rejects National Guard barracks and SCLC-Palenque superhighway
By: Elio Henríquez Tuesday, January 5, 2021 https://www.jornada.com.mx/2021/01/05/estados/022n1est San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas Yesterday, members of the Movement in Defense of Life and Territory (Modevite) placed hand-painted signs in the municipality of Cancuc to express their rejection to constructing…
Read MoreShelter in Solidarity: Support the Zapatista Communities
Dear Family & Friends of the Chiapas Support Committee, WE ARE INVITING YOU TO JOIN US —during one of the most challenging of years— in people-to-people solidarity with the Zapatista communities. The pandemic provides one of the most revolutionary of…
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