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Marichuy in University City
DISPOSSESSION, GRIEVANCES, PROPOSALS By Adolfo Gilly Last November 28, María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, Marichuy, visited our University City to dialogue and explain her candidacy and her program to a crowd of students and professors that, having as a protective…
Read MoreThe State against the pre-candidacy from below and to the left
By: Gilberto López y Rivas The civil association “The Time Has Come for the Flourishing of the Peoples” (Llegó la Hora del Florecimiento de los Pueblos) was constituted for the purpose of obtaining and supporting the registration of the spokesperson…
Read MoreConstructing something new from below: the CNI in San Cristóbal
By: Radio Zapatista Chiapas Mexico, November 8, 2017 The plaza of the San Cristóbal cathedral, affectionately called Plaza de la Resistencia (Resistance Plaza), was full. A four-deep wall of women and men from communities belonging to the National Indigenous Congress…
Read MoreAgenda for Marichuy’s visit to Chiapas
María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, from Tuxpán, Jalisco, Mexico, aka Marichuy, is an indigenous Nahua, traditional doctor and human rights defender, Mexican, indigenous spokesperson and representative in the 2018 federal elections. Marichuy, an aspirant to be a candidate for the…
Read MoreMarichuy denounces INE’s system for collecting signatures via cell phone
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) The candidate nominated by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) to the presidency of the Republic, María de Jesús Patricio Martínez (Marichuy), today denounced “the simulation” and…
Read MoreMarichuy, a very different campaign
By: Luis Hernández Navarro Some 21 years ago, on October 11, 1996, an indigenous Nahua from Jalisco read the political statement of the nascent National Indigenous Congress. In the name of more than 600 delegates coming from all over the…
Read MoreMarichuy in La Garrucha
WORDS OF MARÍA DE JESÚS PATRICIO MARTÍNEZ IN THE CARACOL OF LA GARRUCHA Brothers and Sisters, it is the time of the peoples, it’s time that we unite, it’s time that together we take out these big capitalists that have…
Read MoreWords of Marichuy in Morelia, Chiapas
WORDS OF MARÍA DE JESÚS PATRICIO MARTÍNEZ IN THE ZAPATISTA CARACOL OF MORELIA ON OCTOBER 15, 2017 Well, we already listened to our council member compañeras that make up the Indigenous Government Council and before beginning (my talk) I want…
Read MoreMarichuy begins her tour in Guadalupe Tepeyac
“THE TIME HAS COME TO DECIDE: DESTINY IS IN OUR HANDS and THOSE OF THE MEXICAN PEOPLE” From the Editors Guadalupe Tepeyac, Chiapas The indigenous Nahua woman María de Jesús Patricio, known as Marichuy, spokesperson for the Indigenous Government Council…
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