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JOURNEY TO EUROPE…
SIXTH COMMISSION OF THE EZLN, MEXICO April 10, 2021 To the individuals, groups, collectives, organizations, movements, coordinators, and Native peoples in Europe who await our visit: To the National and International Sixth: To the networks in resistance and rebellion: …
Read MoreFrayba makes an urgent call for solidarity
THEY DENOUNCE PRESENCE OF NATIONAL GUARD IN ARMED ATTACKS ON ALDAMA COMMUNITIES From the Editors Mexico City | Desinformémonos The Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) reported more than 40 attacks with high-caliber firearms against the…
Read MoreThe March of the Color of the Earth
By: Luis Hernández Navarro Twenty years have passed since The March of the Color of the Earth, the Zapatista journey through 12 states that shook deep Mexico. Between February 24 and March 28, 2001, 24 rebels traveled 3,000 kilometers of…
Read MoreThe National Guard enters an EZLN community
By: Chiapas Paralelo With the excuse of verifying a complaint about the existence of “pirate” radio antennas, a National Guard (NG) convoy, with 500 members, entered into a community of Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN)…
Read MoreIn Chiapas, Santa Martha attacks Aldama again over “agrarian conflict”
By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal De Las Casas, Chiapas The mayor of Aldama, Adolfo López Gómez, denounced that yesterday the residents of the neighboring Santa Martha ejido, belonging to Chenalhó municipality, fired up to five high-caliber weapons against four towns…
Read MoreFrom Rojava to Chiapas
By: Raúl Romero* Kurdistan is a people with their own language and culture that live between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. For years and in different ways, these people have struggled for their self-determination. In the past, the Kurdish territories…
Read MoreThe Women Who Are No Longer With Us
Their histories Their joys and sorrows Their pain and rage Their memories and omissions Their laughter and tears Their presence and absence Their hearts Their hopes Their dignity Their calendars: The pages they were able to turn The ones they left…
Read MoreFrayba: the Government continues without recognizing the Army’s human rights violations in Chiapas
By: Desinformémonos Editors Mexico City The Mexican government continues without recognizing the grave human rights violations committed by the Mexican Army in the implementation of the Chiapas 94 Campaign Plan, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba). To…
Read More“For Life, Against Megaprojects, and in Honor of Our Brother Samir Flores”
Thousands of Zapatista support bases got together on February 20, 2021 in all the Zapatista Caracoles in Chiapas to render homage and remember Samir Flores Soberanes, a social fighter from the Mexican state of Morelos, murdered two years ago for…
Read MoreThe February betrayal, a sign of the war that continues
By: Pedro Faro Navarro* It wasn’t the EZLN that broke the dialogue and re-started the war. It was the government. It wasn’t the EZLN that feigned political well while it prepared the military and treacherous blow. It was the government….
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