By Lucie Cabins (For the Chiapas Support Committee: May, 2025) “Impunity is not the result of a weak or deficient state, but rather it is actively provided to the gamut of armed groups who commit crimes and acts of terror…
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Category: accumulation by dispossession, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, AMLO, Autonomy, Capitalism, Chamula Cartel, community, Counterinsurgency, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Criminalization\ of Migration, Disappearance, Displacement, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Lopez Obrador, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, migrants, Migration, militarization, Morena, Murder, Narco violence, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Private Armies, Resistance, San Cristóbal-Palenque Superhighway, Social Control, Surveillance, Territory, Torture, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Women, Zapatistas
Tags: history, Immigration, Mexico, news, politics
A report by the Chiapas Support Committee The Zapatistas have maintained autonomous self-government in their territories in Chiapas ever since the successful and unexpected uprising of 1994. Last year, for the third or fourth time since that uprising, the Zapatistas…
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Category: AMLO, Autonomy, Autonomy, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, Lo común, Lopez Obrador, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, migrants, militarization, Morena, Murder, National Indigenous Congress, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Repression, Resistance, Self-Determination, Sembrando Vida, The Common, US Drug Cartels, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, colonialism, Mexico, narco, Neoliberalism, news, politics
By Raúl Zibechi | Desinformémonos [In Watsonville, California] The laid-back and calm rhythm of the city is palpable in every corner, in the identical houses built of wood, generating the appearance of a life without surprises or problems. Everything changes…
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Category: agro-ecology, Autonomy, Caliornia, community, Environment/ecology, food sovereignty, Health, Indigenous Rights, migrants, Migration, milpas, Raúl Zibechi, sustainable agriculture
Tags: agriculture, agro-ecology, climate change, farmers, farming, Food Security, Indigenous, mexican, migrants, sustainable agriculture
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