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In Baja, Veracruz and Puebla, activists demand a stop to the paramilitary attacks on EZLN communities

The official denialism favors impunity of the aggressors: Frayba By: Antonio Heras, CorrespondentMexicali, Baja California On Sunday morning, members of the Mexicali Resissste Movement protested the armed attacks against communities of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de…

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Inter-American Court for Human Rights and forced displacement

By: Magdalena Gómez Within the very broad cases and situations of human rights violations in our country, a campaign is underway that seeks to stop the war in Chiapas against the Zapatista communities, without this war only affecting them, but…

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Frayba: Denialism deepens impunity

The Frayba Human Rights Center responds to AMLO From the Editors After President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) explained in his morning press conference that attacks against Zapatista communities are not widespread [1], the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human…

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ORCAO attacks 3 Zapatista Communities in Moisés Gandhi region

Elio Henríquez, CorrespondentSan Cristóbal De Las Casas, Chiapas For three days, members of the Regional Organization of Ocosingo Coffee Growers (ORCAO) attacked three autonomous Zapatista communities located in the Moisés Gandhi region, municipality of Lucio Cabañas, with shots from firearms…

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Antonio González Méndez v. Mexico, the first case before the Inter-American Court on Chiapas counterinsurgency actions

By: Yessica Morales, Editor On June 21, 2023, the hearing will be held before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACourtHR) on the case of “Antonio González Méndez vs. México.” Antonio was disappeared in 1999 for belonging to the civilian…

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Who do the paramilitaries serve in Chiapas?

By: Raúl Romero* The phenomenon of paramilitarism is historical and widely studied in Latin America. Paramilitaries are armed civilian groups, trained, financed and/or permitted by states. By means of violence, their task consists of maintaining control of the population, eliminating the resistances…

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Stop the counterinsurgency war in Chiapas, the OCSS demands

Yesterday, members of the Campesino Organization of the Southern Sierra blocked the Coyuca Bridge, located in the Costa Grande region of Guerrero, in solidarity with the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). By: Sergio Ocampo Arista, CorrespondentChilpancingo, Guerrero Members of the…

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La Santa Muerte

Luis Hernández Navarro La Santa Muerte and Malverde are everywhere in San Cristóbal de las Casas and in Chiapas cities like Teopisca. Their cult is not hidden. The markets are replete with ritual elements appropriate for their veneration. The herbal and…

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Coca-Cola’s lack of political transparency is associated with life and death in Chiapas

By: Yessica Morales, Editor The investors represent more than $140 billion in combined assets. At Coca-Cola’s Annual Investor Meeting, shareholders presented five proposals, four of them around the company’s political activities, in order to make transparent its financing and advocacy…

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Frontera Comalapa: Partial return of those displaced by drug cartels

By: Ángeles Mariscal “Andrés Manuel López Obrador said ‘hugs not bullets’, but we are not receiving the hugs, we are receiving pure bullets,” point out residents of the border zone of Chiapas with Guatemala. Terror is experienced in the town…

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