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Against Xenophobia and Racism, the Struggle for Life
ZAPATISTA SIXTH COMMISSION Mexico September 4, 2021 To whom it may concern: In accordance with the Zapatista Good Government Councils, the CCRI-CG of the EZLN and the indigenous Zapatista communities, we declare the following: First: In recent days we have…
Read MoreFor Life: The Departure of “La Extemporánea” to Europe
Zapatista Sixth Commission Mexico August 30, 2021. To the Europe below and to the left: To the Sixth in Mexico and abroad: To the organizations, groups, and collectives that seek truth and justice for the victims of forced disappearance: Sisters,…
Read MoreSimulated, inefficient and unpunished; the investigation of the Viejo Velasco Massacre
By: Alma Martínez *According to the semiannual report of the National Search Commission (NSC) for Chiapas, the federal subsidy authorized for actions to search for missing (disappeared) persons is $8,780,727.00 pesos. However, from 2019 to 2021 only two days of…
Read MorePantelhó has a new municipal council
By: Ángeles Mariscal and Andrés Domínguez The Permanent Commission of the State Congress unanimously approved the resignation of Delia Yaneth Velasco Flores, interim municipal president and of the entire municipal council of Pantelhó, to later appoint a municipal council made…
Read More500 years, the uses of history
Above: A member of Zapatista Squadron 421 at the 500 Years celebration in Madrid, Spain. By: Luis Hernández Navarro The Plaza de Colón, in Madrid, is the emblematic heart of the Spanish ultra-right and its fantasies of recovering its lost…
Read MoreOnly 500 years later
Words of the Zapatista Peoples August 13, 2021. Sisters, brothers, hermanoas: Compañeros, compañeras, compañeroas: The Zapatista communities speak through our voices. First, we would like to express our thanks. Thank you for having invited us. Thank you for having welcomed…
Read MoreZapatistas in Madrid: “500 years later, the communities come to listen to you”
Madrid, Spain “Tell us your story, your rage, your rebellion. We come to listen and learn from your story. In each resistance there is a cry for life. 500 years later, the communities come to listen to you,” was the…
Read MoreThey elect new Pantelhó council; current 3-year term will end
By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal De Las Casas, Chiapas In an assembly this Monday (August 9) inhabitants of the 86 indigenous communities and 18 barrios (neighborhoods) in Pantelhó elected members of a municipal council that will relieve the municipal council…
Read MoreFrom the Popular Consultation to the National Campaign for Truth and Justice
By: Magdalena Gómez August 1, 2021 will be marked by the first popular “consulta” (consultation or referendum) held on a national scale, with a constitutional and legal basis, the product of four decades of struggles to open the way to…
Read MoreThey murder the indigenous prosecutor in Pantelhó Case
By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal De Las Casas, Chiapas The Indigenous Justice Prosecutor for the Chiapas Highlands region, Gregorio Pérez Gómez, who was in charge of the investigations into the recent acts of violence in the municipality of Pantelhó, was shot…
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