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El Sur Resiste 2023 International Gathering begins in Chiapas, Mexico
The “El Sur Resiste | The South Resists 2023” International Gathering began Saturday, May 6 in the CIDECI, University of the Earth Chiapas, where more than 700 people have met in order to make visible the dispossession of territories nationally…
Read MoreThey evict campesinos who block work on the trans-isthmus train in Oaxaca
Above Photo: Members of the “Tierra y Libertad” encampment, who have maintained a blockade for 60 days in Guichicovi, Isthmus de Tehuantepec municipality, were expelled yesterday by members of the National Guard, Navy and state police. To the right, members…
Read MoreEl sur resiste | The south resists: Gathering on the Zapatista & Indigenous struggles against mega-projects
El sur resiste | The south resists Updates on the Zapatista movement & land justice struggles in México: On the CNI campaign to stop the “Maya Train” & Inter-Oceanic Corridor An Evening of Solidarity, Poetry & Zapatismo At Medicine for…
Read MoreThey demand immediate freedom for Manuel Gómez Vázquez, a Zapatista
By: Yessica Morales Manuel, a 22-year-old Tseltal campesino, is a native of Ricardo Flores Magón autonomous Zapatista rebel municipality, Good Government Junta Rebel Thought, Caracol IX, Nuevo Jerusalén, located in the official municipality of Ocosingo. *The oral trial hearing was…
Read MoreRelatives of Simón Pedro Pérez reject an abbreviated trial of his killer
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas. (apro) Human rights defenders, members of the civil organization Las Abejas of Acteal and relatives of Simón Pedro Pérez López demanded justice for the indigenous leader from the Chiapas Prosecutor’s Office and the judge…
Read MoreViolence against the Indigenous Peoples
By: Francisco López Bárcenas Popular predictions at the beginning of the year announced that January would bring storms, but few imagined the magnitude of them. The violence against indigenous peoples in this first month of 2023 has acquired such dimension…
Read MoreMassacre in Peru: Democracy at war against the peoples
By: Raúl Zibechi “In the Andes massacres follow one anotherwith the rhythm of the seasons.There are four in the world; in the Andes there are five:spring, summer, autumn, winter and massacre.”Manuel Scorza On January 4, a regional strike began in…
Read MoreMexico III. Father Marcelo: “The earth groans the pains of childbirth”
Raúl Zibechi interviews Father Marcelo By: Raúl Zibechi “We are living something similar to the times of Jesus. The Romans had no mercy. The narco has no mercy,” says Father Marcelo Pérez, sitting in the dining room of the parish…
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