Category: Mexico’s Southern Border
“WE SEEK REFUGE TOO:” Central American migrant children By: Ruben Figueroa Thousands of kilometers divide them but the same misfortune unites them, their eyes are admired on the road, every minute they see unfamiliar faces. They are children displaced by…
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Category: Counterinsurgency, Dolores Hidalgo, Environment/ecology, Events, EZLN, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border
Tags: Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, environment, La Realidad, Latin America, Mexico, Zapatistas
OCTOBER 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. Zapatista Solidarity with Ayotzinapa, 4 Comunicados, 2 Demonstrations – First, the Zapatistas issued a comunicado expressing solidarity with Ayotzinapa students and announcing that its members would participate silently in the October 8…
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Category: Dispossession, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, National Indigenous Congress, News Summaries, Revolutionary Art, Student Movements, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Latin America, Mexico Teachers Protest, Zapatistas
ANATOMY OF A PARAMILITARY ATTACK: A REPORT FROM SAN MANUEL By: Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez “Manuel Velasco state paramilitary chief, Enrique Peña Nieto supreme paramilitary chief” That’s what the letrero (hand-painted sign) says in front of the Zapatista bodega at the Cuxuljá…
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Category: Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, Dolores Hidalgo, Human Rights, Mexico's Southern Border
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, La Realidad, Marcos, Mexico, Zapatistas
SEPTEMBER 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY  In Chiapas 1. The EZLN Issued 2 Comunicados – The first is a joint demand with the National Indigenous Congress for the freedom of the Yaqui leader Mario Luna, arrested to repress the Yaqui…
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Category: Chiapas Tourism, Counterinsurgency, Immigration, Mexico's Southern Border, National Indigenous Congress, News Summaries, San Sebastián Bachajón, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Mexico, political prisoners, Zapatistas
Chiapas Support Committee/Comité de Apoyo a Chiapas P.O. Box 3421, Oakland, CA 94609 Tel: (510) 654-9587 Email: cezmat@igc.org http://www.chiapas-support.org http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chiapas-Support-Committee-Oakland/
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Category: Autonomous Zapatista Education, Autonomy, Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, Events, EZLN, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, National Indigenous Congress
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News
[We’re back from an amazing visit to Zapatista Territory and have lots of news about the Zapatistas, the recent attacks on San Manuel, immigration on Mexico’s southern border and the southern border strategy (Plan Sur). We’re looking forward to seeing…
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Category: Autonomous Zapatista Education, Counterinsurgency, Events, Immigration, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Southern Border
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, EZLN, Marcos, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Zapatistas
AUGUST 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. Zapatista Exchange (Sharing) with the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) – The Zapatistas held an “exchange” (sharing) with the National Indigenous Congress (CNI, its initials in Spanish) in La Realidad between August 4…
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Category: Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, Dolores Hidalgo, EZLN, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, National Indigenous Congress, News Summaries
Tags: Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, La Realidad, Marcos, Mexico, Zapatistas
ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY for JULY 2014 In Chiapas 1. Sup Moisés Reports On Fundraising to Rebuild the Autonomous School and Clinic in La Realidad – In a July 18 communiqué entitled Almost 5 Times, Subcomandante Moisés reports that fundraising for…
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Category: EZLN, Immigration, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Southern Border, News Summaries, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: acteal, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Jose Manuel Mireles, La Realidad, Las Abejas, Mexico, Zapatistas
ACNUR WANTS MEXICO TO CONSIDER MINORS TRAVELING TO THE U.S. AS REFUGEES By: Blanche Petrich ** They cannot be forcibly returned to their country if there is a risk: commissioner ** From January to June they have deported 8,239 without…
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