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Galeano: The left is drunk and doesn’t see the fraud coming
By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas Subcomandante Galeano, of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), asserted that the institutional left: “is so drunk celebrating a victory that it still doesn’t have in…
Read MoreThe “minimum spaces for surviving” are closed In Central American towns
By: Blanche Petrich Their stories are similar and different. In their cities or towns, in Honduras or El Salvador, the minimum spaces for surviving are closed to them. They killed one woman’s uncle for being homosexual. They killed another…
Read MoreThe US collected data on 30,000 immigrants in Mexico
IN 13 MONTHS, THE US COLLECTED DATA ON 30,000 IMMIGRANTS IN MEXICO By: Fabiola Martínez, Andrea Becerril, Georgina Saldierna and Jaime Hernández México maintains an agreement with the United States derived from the Merida Plan [1] that has permitted collecting…
Read MoreUN condemns deaths due to the attack on displaced Tsotsils in Chiapas Highlands
By the Editorial Staff MEXICO CITY The Mexico Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights of (UN-HR) lamented the loss of human lives “as a consequence de los continuous attacks of armed groups” against the indigenous civilian…
Read MoreProgram for the Zapatista Roundtable discussion
I. Poster and Photography Exhibition April 15-25, 2018, at CIDECI-UniTierra, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico Images of Hope Poster art from Marichuy’s campaign Curated by Alejandro Magallanes Absences and Presences Disappeared Women, Women of Dignified Rage Photographs by…
Read MoreZapatista Women’s Gathering Closing Words
Words of the Zapatista women at the closing ceremony of the First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture for Women in Struggle in the Zapatista Caracol of the Tzotz Choj Zone March 10, 2018 Good evening, good morning,…
Read MoreFrayba denounces new forced displacement of 90 families in Chiapas
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Center (Frayba) denounced that a civilian armed group of Chenalhó provoked the forced displacement of some 90 Tsotsil families from a community in the neighbor municipality of Aldama,…
Read MoreZapatista Women’s Gathering Opening Words
WORDS IN THE NAME OF ZAPATISTA WOMEN AT THE OPENING OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL GATHERING OF POLITICS, ART, SPORTS, AND CULTURE OF WOMEN THAT STRUGGLE March 8, 2018. Caracol in the Tzots Choj Zone Good morning, sisters of Mexico and…
Read MoreEZLN announces April Roundtable event
The Sixth Commission of the Zapatista National Liberation Army convokes a ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION (or seedbed, depending): “Looks, Listens, Words: Prohibited Thinking?” ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY Sixth commission of the EZLN Mexico March 2018 To the persons, groups, collectives and organizations…
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