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A second armed group emerges in Chiapas, to support El Machete
Photo: People of the Jungle, an armed group in Chiapas, emerges in support of El Machete (Screen Shot) The new armed group is called Gente de la Selva (People of the Jungle) and emerged in support of the El Machete…
Read MoreThey won’t let the PRD mayor govern, Pantelhó self-defense forces warn
Above Photo: El Machete Self-Defense Forces of Pantelhó By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas After PRD member Raquel Trujillo Morales supposedly took the oath of office as mayor of Pantelhó secretly in a Tuxtla Gutiérrez hotel, the…
Read MoreExodus from Pantelhó due to political tension
Above photo: El Machete Self-Defense Forces of the People By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal De Las Casas, Chiapas The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) reported that at least 90 indigenous people from the communities of Nuevo…
Read MoreORCAO, the paramilitary arm
Above: The mural ORCAO destroyed in Ricardo Flores Magón autonomous Zapatista municipality By: Luis Hernández Navarro Just last September 11, two Zapatista authorities from the Patria Nueva good government junta, of Caracol 10 (Ocosingo), José Antonio Sánchez Juárez and Sebastián…
Read MoreChiapas on the Brink of Civil War
Communiqué from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee-General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army Mexico September 19, 2021 To the People of Mexico: To the Peoples of the World: To the National and International Sixth: A Europe of Below and…
Read MoreChenalhó armed group murders a member of the EZLN
By: Angeles Mariscal Above Photo by Ángeles Mariscal: Xuxch´en, Aldama, the hometown of Domingo, the Zapatista murdered by armed civilians from Chenalhó. Domingo was returning from San Andrés Larráinzar, with his family and other members of the communities that make…
Read MoreThe Zapatista delegation La Extemporánea arrives in the capital of the country
By: Fernando Camacho and Elio Henríquez Members of La Extemporánea, the delegation of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) that will depart on Monday for Europe to meet with diverse social collectives on that continent,…
Read MoreEZLN: Itinerary of La Extemporánea
September 10, 2021: The airborne delegation [La Extemporánea] will depart the Jacinto Canek caracol early in the morning. September 10, 2021: At an unspecified time after 18:00hrs, La Extemporánea [i] will arrive at the location on Carmona y Valle Street…
Read More“We can’t take it anymore, we are migrants, not animals”
This article further describes why the Zapatistas issued the “Against Xenophobia and Racism” communiqué. Text by: Ángeles Mariscal Photos by Ángeles Mariscal With torn feet, under sun and rain, hundreds of migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba, Central America and other…
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