Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Mexico’s Social Movements


Learning to govern ourselves

By: Gustavo Esteva The storm rages; cold and hurricane-force winds threaten from the north, which will be accentuated after next Friday, January 20, and a cyclone forms level with the land all over the country. There is nowhere to take…

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Ayotzinapa and the inescapable remedy

LA JORNADA EDITORIAL Official documents of which La Jornada has a copy prove that the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) withheld information related to organized crime’s use of passenger buses for drug trafficking, a key piece in the Ayotzinapa…

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CNI-EZLN: Who dares to say it’s a bad fight?

By: Magdalena Gómez With that question on the first of January, the Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés emphasized the support of the EZLN to the agreements reached in the second stage of the fifth National Indigenous Congress (CNI). And he reflected: “Twenty-three…

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CNI-EZLN pronouncement on Mapuche political prisoner

JOINT PRONOUNCEMENT FROM THE CNI AND THE EZLN FOR THE FREEDOM OF OUR MAPUCHE SISTER MACHI FRANCISCA LINCOLAO HUIRCAPAN   To the Mapuche People: To the Chilean People: To the International Sixth: To the Media: We peoples, nations, and tribes of…

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Zapatismo’s presidential candidacy

By: Raúl Zibechi The decision of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) to submit the possibility of presenting an indigenous woman as a candidate for the presidency in the 2018 elections to its support…

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The government is the one that should be afraid

CHIAPAS: “THE GOVERNMENT IS THE ONE THAT SHOULD BE AFRAID,” MESSAGE FROM ORGANIZED CIVIL SOCIETY AFTER THE GASOLINAZO  Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas “Despite the fear infused in the population, the mobilization took place. The government is the one that should be…

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Words of the EZLN at the closing of the 5th CNI Congress

WORDS OF THE EZLN AT THE CLOSING OF THE SECOND STAGE OF THE FIFTH CNI CONGRESS ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY MEXICO JANUARY FIRST, 2017 Sisters and Brothers of the National Indigenous Congress: Compañeras, compañeros y compañeroas of the national and…

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The Power of Below

By: Raúl Zibechi It’s unheard of in Latin America that dozens of indigenous peoples and nations decide to endow themselves with their own government. The recent decision of the 5th National Indigenous Congress (CNI), after consultation and approval by 43…

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And it shook! A Report from the Epicenter

To the Original Peoples of Mexico To Civil Society of Mexico and of the World To the National and International Sixth To the Free Communications Media Brothers, Sisters, It is the time of the peoples, for seeding and reconstructing ourselves….

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CNI announces an autonomous parallel government for Mexico

THE EZLN EXTENDED THE CONSULTATION TO DEFINE ITS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE  By: Isaín Mandujano OVENTIK, Chiapas. (proceso.com.mx). – Some 3,000 participating delegates of the National Indigenous Congress (Congreso Nacional Indígena, CNI), with support from the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista…

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