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Ayotzinapa; It’s not the garbage dump or the fifth bus

IT’S NOT THE GARBAGE DUMP OR THE FIFTH BUS; IT’S THE C-4 By: Rafael Landerreche* Although the communications media has taken it up a lot, the most important part of the GIEI’s Ayotzinapa Report is not that which refutes the…

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Impunity and provocation of the EZLN

IMPUNITY AND PROVOCATION OF THE EZLN: A GLOBAL OFFENSIVE? By: Magdalena Gómez Once again it is demonstrated that we live in times of impunity without concessions. The Zapatista commanders justifiably and indignantly acknowledged that they don’t have any reason to…

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Ayotzinapa Report

THEY DIDN’T BURN THEM By: Blanche Petrich and Emir Olivares The report containing the alternative investigation that the Inter-disciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, its initials in Spanish) carried out into the Ayotzinapa Case –43 enforced disappearances, six murdered and…

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Ayotzinapa, 11 months of searching

  By: Emir Olivares y José Antonio Román [This is an abbreviated version of the La Jornada article cited below.] It has been 11 months of ‘‘rage, indignation, courage, dignity and search;” almost one year without knowing the whereabouts of…

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EZLN: Truth and justice will never, ever come from above

ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY Mexico, August 16, 2015 To the National and International Sixth: To the National Indigenous Congress: To those below and to the left in the world: To who in may concern: It is remarked once again that neither…

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Ayotzinapa: discrediting the “historic truth”

LA JORNADA EDITORIAL Luis Raúl González Pérez, president of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), classified the investigation of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR, its initials in Spanish) into the disappearance of the 43 students from the Raúl…

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Obstacles to Indigenous Autonomy

OBSTACLES TO THE AUTONOMIES OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES By: Gilberto López y Rivas The autonomic processes that the indigenous peoples champion confront arduous obstacles and challenges, essential among them, the neoliberal capitalist State’s lack of will to open spaces for…

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Ayotzinapa: key pieces of the official version fall apart

A Special Report By: Anabel Hernández and Steve Fisher A key piece in the version that the PGR has published after the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students is that the students were detained and taken to the base of the…

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Looking sideways at capitalism

LOOKING SIDEWAYS AT CAPITALISM  The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) sponsored the Seminar on “Critical thought versus the capitalist hydra” from May 3 to May 9, 2015. A star-studded cast of left intellectuals participated either in person or by sending…

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EZLN: Words from the homage and seminar

An Outline of the EZLN’s Word from the Homage and the Seminar The EZLN’s seminar on Critical Thought versus the Capitalist Hydra and the Homage to Luis Villoro and teacher Galeano generated a high volume of comunicados and “words,” as…

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