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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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
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By Desinformémonos Students from Ayotzinapa Normal denounced the six-year Presidencial term limit of Andrés Manuel López Obrador “is about to conclude leaving in the air” the disappearance of the 43 classmates who on the 26th of September will mark 10…
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Category: AMLO, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Disappearance, Human Rights, Morena, Organized Crime, Perpetual War
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By Sergio Ocampo Arista, correspondent, La Jornada Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. The former spokesperson for the Ayotzinapa parents, Felipe de la Cruz, reported that Arturo Medina Padilla, assistant secretary for Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior…
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Category: AMLO, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Disappearance, Human Rights, Morena, Organized Crime, Perpetual War
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From the EZLN’s Capitán, at Enlace Zapatista. August 2024. Let’s assume, without conceding, that you can imagine the following: You were born in an indigenous town. In a community you acquired your language, your culture, your way. All this makes…
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