Category: Mexico’s Social Movements
OBSTACLES “PUT ADVANCES AT RISK IN AYOTZINAPA CASE: GIEI By: Blanche Petrich and José Antonio Román Mexico City The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, the group’s initials in Spanish) denounced a series of obstacles, diverting of information and illegal…
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THERE WAS NO INCINERATION IN COCULA, EAAF CONCLUDES By: José Antonio Román The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF, the team’s initials in Spanish) concluded that there is no scientific evidence that indicates that the mass incineration of the 43 Ayotzinapa…
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BUITRAGO: THEY PURSUE US BECAUSE WORK ON THE IGUALA CASE IS UNCOMFORTABLE By: Sanjuana Martínez, Special to La Jornada To former prosecutors Angela Buitrago y Claudia Paz y Paz, members of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, the group’s initials…
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By: José Antonio Román An epidemic of disappearances exists in Mexico, fed by the government’s “incompetence, inertia and indolence,” which has been more worried about giving “entirely political responses” than about designing real and articulated efficient public policies for confronting…
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AFTER 19 YEARS OF DEFENDING THEIR LAND, PROVOCATIONS CONTINUE AGAINST SAN FRANCISCO TEOPISCA, AN ADHERENT TO THE SIXTH “We place responsibility on the 3 levels of government for what can happen to any one of our compañeros for not giving…
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[Intro: The Ejido Tila continues to occupy the municipal building that its members partially destroyed and then occupied on Decembers 16, 2015. Ejido members occupy the building and the ejido publishes frequent updates (comunicados) on their website: http://laotraejidotila.blogspot.mx/ The comunicado below…
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CHIAPAS TEACHERS AGREE to “TRUCE” and RETURN to THEIR WORKPLACES By: Angeles Mariscal [The teachers warned that they would not allow those who presented the evaluation to return to their workplaces. Photo: Isaín Mandujano/Chiapas PARALELO] After the exchange of five…
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By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas The state government liberated three teachers, two normalistas and a father detained Tuesday during the confrontation between police and members of Sections 7 and 40 of the National Education…
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THOUSANDS MARCH in CHIAPAS to PROCLAIM “A NEW CONSTITUTION” By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas Thousands of persons marched yesterday in this city to later participate in the public proclamation of the Citizen and Popular Constituent,…
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[Below is a denunciation written by people of faith opposed to the government’s “development” plans for Eastern Chiapas because they will cause displacement of indigenous communities and harm to the environment and public health.] Movement in Defense of Life and…
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Chiapas Support Committee 