Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Mexico’s Social Movements


EZLN and CNI on Chablekal repression

JOINT COMMUNIQUE BY THE CNI AND EZLN ON REPRESSION AGAINST THE COMMUNITY OF CHABLEKAL To the media To the Human Rights organizations To the Union of Inhabitants of Chablekal To the people of Mexico Sisters and Brothers We, the peoples,…

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10 Years since the repression in San Salvador Atenco

By: Javier Salinas Cesáreo, Correspondent San Salvador Atenco, Mexico Yesterday, the Peoples Front in Defense of Land (FPDT) commemorated the tenth anniversary of the repression and occupation of San Salvador Atenco community by federal forces. On that occasion they arrested…

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The GIEI’s Tsunami

By: Magdalena Gómez The second and last report of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, the Group’s initials in Spanish) opened with the assertion that there is no evidence that the normalistas had links with organized crime and discards…

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EZLN and CNI: Declaration of Maximum Alert for Xochicuautla and Ostula

April 13, 2016 TO THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD TO THE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA Faced with the cowardly betrayal of the Natho indigenous community of San Francisco Xochicuautla, municipality of Lerma in the State of Mexico, in order to impose the…

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Frayba: Repression, torture and arbitrary arrests of Chiapas teachers

CHIAPAS: “ARBITRARY DEPRIVATION OF FREEDOM AND TORTURE OF CNTE TEACHERS,” FRAYBA The Mexican State’s repression criminalizes social protest in Chiapas. San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México, April 16, 2016 Press Bulletin The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights…

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Rigorous questioning from the IACHR of the Mexican government

Washington, DC In a harsh and unpleasant session, members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) severely questioned the Mexican government not only because of the direct attacks against one of its functionaries, but also because of the negative…

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IACHR condemns campaign against experts

By: Emir Olivares Alonso The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) categorically rejected “the defamation campaign that takes place in Mexico” against the Grupo Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), which works on the Ayotzinapa Case, and against its Executive…

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Nestora Salgado: I will fight to free political prisoners

By: Georgina Saldierna and Josefina Quintero Yesterday, the leader of the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities-Community Police (CRAC-PC), Nestora Salgado García, committed to continue fighting for the liberation of the 500 political prisoners that there are in the country, among…

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Ayotzinapa: example of apparent State-crime collusion

By: David Brooks, Correspondent New York, March 2, 2016 The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) affirmed in an annual report on Mexico that the disappearance of the 43 Aytozinapa students is “an emblematic example of apparent collusion between State…

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Zapatistas convoke 2016 activities

ZAPATISTAS CONVOKE 2016 ACTIVITIES
 February 29, 2016 Considering: First: That the serious crisis that shakes the entire world, and that will only worsen, puts the survival of the planet and the entire population, including human beings, at risk. Second: That…

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