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By: Luis Hernández Navarro The lifeless body of Ignacio Pérez Girón appeared on the side of the Tuxtla Gutiérrez-San Cristóbal free highway (in other words, not the toll road). It had signs of torture. Two days earlier, on May 4…
Read MoreFor life and against war in the Zapatista communities
By: Gilberto López y Rivas Today is being carried out in national territory, and in various countries of the solidarity world (among them, France, Spain, Greece and the United States), a day against the militarization of Zapatista territories and communities,…
Read MoreThe San Cristóbal-Palenque highway is back and so is the resistance
By: Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez The San Cristobal-Palenque highway is key to an elaborate tourism development plan, the Palenque Integral Center (CIP, its initials in Spanish), which includes a lush green jungle area in the northern zone of Chiapas, the Agua…
Read MoreUS dollars in exchange for containing migrants in Chiapas
By: Angeles Mariscal A basic argument that without being new, is open and public for the first time, puts the migratory issue on the table: strengthening the economic relationship of Mexico with the United States, in exchange for containing thousands…
Read MoreFrayba denounces militarization in Zapatista Territory
THE MEXICAN STATE INCREASES THE MILITARIZATION IN ZAPATISTA TERRITORY Five years after the unpunished extrajudicial execution of José Luis Solís López, teacher Galeano, during an attack on the autonomous Zapatista project, in the community of La Realidad, the Mexican State…
Read More8 more municipalities reject the San Cristóbal-Palenque Highway
By: Chiapas Paralelo The Movement in Defense of Life and Territory (Modevite), which is composed of believing people in the parishes of Yajalón, Candelaria, Huixtán, Oxchuc, Ocosingo, Altamirano, Chilón, Sitalá and Chicomuselo, unite in rejection of the construction of the…
Read MoreIn Chiapas, the immigrant wave experiences a Calvary
By: Hermann Bellinghausen Tapachula, Chiapas The southern border is a test. It all started last October, when the avalanche of immigrants from Central America towards the north adopted new and more challenging ways of taking the trip to face the…
Read MoreOxchuc elects its municipal president through uses and customs
Without parties or ballot boxes By: Isaín Mandujano This Saturday, indigenous Tseltals of Oxchuc, elected their new mayor for the next three years under the regimen of a new normative system of uses and customs, by raised hand, after four…
Read MoreEZLN: The government wants to kidnap the image of Zapata
[Admin: New EZLN communiqué! We’ll publish the English translation as soon as we receive it.] By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) affirmed that like the previous ones, the current federal government…
Read MoreResidents of San Juan Cancuc reject San Cristóbal-Palenque superhighway construction
By: Chiapas Paralelo The Movement in Defense of Life and Territory (Modevite, its Spanish acronym) in San Juan Cancuc demonstrated a series of points in which they expressed their rejection of the realization of the superhighway project that goes from…
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