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They demand a stop to the paramilitary harassment of the Zapatista peoples
By: Jessica Xantomila and Elio Henríquez, Correspondent In “Stop the war against the Zapatista peoples” global day of action, members of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), popular organizations, students, teachers and unions, as well as artists and academics, mobilized in…
Read MoreThe Chiapas Power Keg
By: Luis Hernández Navarro Chiapas is a powder keg about to explode. Violence multiplies alarmingly. Armed attacks by paramilitaries against Zapatista communities are frequent and intensifying. Organized crime groups organize levies (forced recruitment) of young people to swell their armies….
Read MoreFrayba: The opaqueness and inaction of the Mexican State is an imminent threat to peace in Chiapas
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, MéxicoMay 26, 2023Bulletin No. 12 Tension in Zapatista territory On January 1, 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) took up arms, declaring war on the Mexican State, fighting for…
Read MoreShootings and roadblocks paralyze Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas
From the Editors Between Tuesday and Thursday, alleged members of organized crime groups sustained shootouts and maintained intermittent roadblocks at different points on the highway located between the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas, and the border with Guatemala due to…
Read MoreEZLN support base injured in armed attack on the Moisés y Gandhi community
On May 23, 2023, Jorge López Sántiz, an indigenous Tseltal member and support base of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) was admitted to the Dr. Gilberto Gomez Maza Hospital in the city of Tuxtla…
Read MoreZibechi: The mind thinks with ideas, not with information
By: Raúl Zibechi In a recent interview (https://bit.ly/3BuJeRP) the South Korean-born German philosopher, Byun-Chuk Han, points out: “We are very well informed, but somehow we cannot orient ourselves.” His arguments about the social consequences of the over-information we suffer had…
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 MoreMaking the path to walk
By: Raúl Romero* In October 2016,the National Indigenous Congress (CNI, Congreso Nacional Indígena) celebrated its fifth congress and 20 years of existence. Meeting in the Universidad de la Tierra, in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, delegates to the congress…
Read MorePayán and the war in Chiapas
Carlos Payán Velver, founder and former director of La Jornada, died on March 17, 2023, at the age of 94. Below, Hermann Bellinghausen recalls La Jornada’s response to the Zapatista Uprising. By: Hermann Bellinghausen The days of January 1994 that followed…
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