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4 Community police murdered in Guerrero
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TIXTLA: DESTABILIZING VIOLENCE, A LA JORNADA EDITORIAL Yesterday, an armed group murdered four community police in the El Fortín barrio, located in the municipal capital of Tixtla, Guerrero. The victims belong to the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities (CRAC) of…
Read MoreCategory: Ayotzinapa, Mexico's Social Movements Tags: Community Police (CRAC), Guerrero, La Patria es Primero, Mexico
Capitalism, war and counterinsurgency in Chiapas III
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By: Gaspar Morquecho In the jungles and mountains of the Mexican southeast 46,000 indigenous families are resisting the most prolonged counterinsurgency war in the recent history of Mexico. They are grandparents, men and women, youths, girls and boys of four…
Read MoreCategory: Counterinsurgency, Indigenous Rights, Mexico's Social Movements Tags: Capitalism, EZLN Uprising, Gaspar Morquecho, Zapatistas
Human Rights: time to tell the truth
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By: Luis Hernández Navarro One blow after another! Hard and to the head! The provisional report on the Human rights situation in Mexico, elaborated by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), caused tremendous discontent in the Enrique Peña Nieto…
Read MoreCategory: Ayotzinapa, Human Rights, Luis Hernández Navarro, Mexico Drug War Tags: Ayotzinapa, Mexico
CNI Solidarity with Ayotzinapa
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MEMBERS of the NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS ARE IN SOLIDARITY with AYOTZINAPA Chiapas Mexico, September 27, 2015 “With all respect and if you permit us, we want to be in the heart of the young normalistas’ parents, we want to be…
Read MoreEZLN mobilizes in solidarity with Ayotzinapa
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IN CHIAPAS, THOUSANDS MOBILIZE IN SOLIDARITY WITH AYOTZINAPA By: Angeles Mariscal Students, independent citizens, collectives, activists, civil society organizations, teachers and members of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, its initials in Spanish) participated since early this morning in demonstrations…
Read MoreCategory: Anti-systemic Movements, Ayotzinapa, EZLN, Mexico's Social Movements Tags: Ayotzinapa, Chiapas, Guerrero Student Massacre, Mexico, Zapatistas
EZLN: For pain, for rage, for truth, for justice
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FOR PAIN, FOR RAGE, FOR TRUTH, FOR JUSTICE September 2015 Compañeras, compañeroas & compañeros of the Sixth of Mexico and the World: Sisters and brothers of the people of the Earth: Our collective heart knows, before and now, that our sorrow is…
Read MoreGuerrero police and Ayotzinapa students clash
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Normalistas and police clash on the Chilpancingo-Tixtla Highway By: Sergio Ocampo Arista, Correspondent Tixtla, Guerrero A dozen normalistas [1] and six state police, including two women, were beaten, besides a cargo truck burned, during a confrontation that occurred this Tuesday…
Read MoreAyotzinapa; It’s not the garbage dump or the fifth bus
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IT’S NOT THE GARBAGE DUMP OR THE FIFTH BUS; IT’S THE C-4 By: Rafael Landerreche* Although the communications media has taken it up a lot, the most important part of the GIEI’s Ayotzinapa Report is not that which refutes the…
Read MoreImpunity and provocation of the EZLN
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IMPUNITY AND PROVOCATION OF THE EZLN: A GLOBAL OFFENSIVE? By: Magdalena Gómez Once again it is demonstrated that we live in times of impunity without concessions. The Zapatista commanders justifiably and indignantly acknowledged that they don’t have any reason to…
Read MoreCategory: Ayotzinapa, Counterinsurgency, EZLN, Human Rights Tags: Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, Chiapas, free trade agreements, Guerreo, La Realidad, Mexico, Oaxaca, political prisoners, special economic zones
Ayotzinapa Report
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THEY DIDN’T BURN THEM By: Blanche Petrich and Emir Olivares The report containing the alternative investigation that the Inter-disciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, its initials in Spanish) carried out into the Ayotzinapa Case –43 enforced disappearances, six murdered and…
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