Category: Mexico’s Social Movements
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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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