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EZLN and CNI-CIG denounce the kidnapping and murder of 2 CNI members
COMMUNIQUE FROM THE CNI-CIG AND THE EZLN ON THE COWARDLY KIDNAPPING AND MURDER OF COMPAÑEROS FROM THE EMILIANO ZAPATA POPULAR INDIGENOUS COUNCIL OF GUERRERO The National Indigenous Congress [CNI], the Indigenous Governing Council [CIG], and the Zapatista National Liberation Army…
Read More8 more municipalities reject the San Cristóbal-Palenque Highway
By: Chiapas Paralelo The Movement in Defense of Life and Territory (Modevite), which is composed of believing people in the parishes of Yajalón, Candelaria, Huixtán, Oxchuc, Ocosingo, Altamirano, Chilón, Sitalá and Chicomuselo, unite in rejection of the construction of the…
Read MoreThe Peoples Front rejects the Huexca thermoelectric plant
By: Hermann Bellinghausen Chinameca, Morelos Here, where Emiliano Zapata died 100 years ago, came the communities grouped together in The Peoples Front in Defense of Land and Water of Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala. Not only to remember the caudillo, but…
Read MoreResidents of San Juan Cancuc reject San Cristóbal-Palenque superhighway construction
By: Chiapas Paralelo The Movement in Defense of Life and Territory (Modevite, its Spanish acronym) in San Juan Cancuc demonstrated a series of points in which they expressed their rejection of the realization of the superhighway project that goes from…
Read MoreZapata’s grandchildren reinforce the struggle against the thermoelectric plant
By: Gloria Muñoz Ramírez The consultation imposed by the federal Executive to start up the Huexca, Morelos thermoelectric plant, which forms part of the Morelos Integral Plan, the Nahua population responds with information caravans about the real dangers that the…
Read MoreEZLN and CNI-CIG on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec referendum
COMMUNIQUE FROM THE CNI-CIG AND THE EZLN: Another Simulated Referendum to Justify Megaproject Development on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec To the people of Mexico: To the people of the world: To the CIG Support Networks: To the Networks of Resistance…
Read MoreProvocations, infamy, apologies
[Admin: The EZLN and the CNI-CIG are focusing their joint resistances on the Morelos Integral Project (PIM). This article begins to explain why: Resistances to the PIM could be repeated with the Maya Train, the Tehuantepec dry canal (aka Trans-Isthmus…
Read MoreCNI-CIG-EZLN: A Call to Days of Struggle
CONVOCATION OF THE DAYS OF STRUGGLE “ZAPATA LIVES, SAMIR LIVES, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES” 100 YEARS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF GENERAL EMILIANO ZAPATA SALAZAR Considering that the neoliberal regime killed our brother Samir Flores Soberanes; we don’t know if it…
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