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Raul Vera: Ayotzinapa / Acteal, “a message from the state to intimidate the insurgents” Massacring social strugglers, “a habit” in Mexico: Raúl Vera By fabbia @ desinformemonos Mexico. “I don’t believe it is organized crime; it’s something else. This is a message…
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LOS LLANOS OF LOS ALTOS, CHIAPAS ADDS ITS REJECTION OF THE SC-PALENQUE SUPER-HIGHWAY AND EXTENDS INVITATION Los Llanos Ejido, San Cristobal de Las Casas, adds itself to the resistance against construction of the Super-Highway, and extends an invitation to know…
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Category: Dispossession, Environment/ecology, Indigenous Rights, Mexico's Social Movements
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, environment, Llanos Ejido, Mexico, Palenque, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Zapatistas
SILENT MARCH of 20,000 ZAPATISTAS FOR AYOTZINAPA By: Chiapas Paralelo Some 20,000 indigenous men and women, milicianos and support bases of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) among them, held a silent mega-march in solidarity with the students in Ayotzinapa,…
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ANATOMY OF A PARAMILITARY ATTACK: A REPORT FROM SAN MANUEL By: Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez “Manuel Velasco state paramilitary chief, Enrique Peña Nieto supreme paramilitary chief” That’s what the letrero (hand-painted sign) says in front of the Zapatista bodega at the Cuxuljá…
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Category: Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, Dolores Hidalgo, Human Rights, Mexico's Southern Border
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, La Realidad, Marcos, Mexico, Zapatistas
SEPTEMBER 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY  In Chiapas 1. The EZLN Issued 2 Comunicados – The first is a joint demand with the National Indigenous Congress for the freedom of the Yaqui leader Mario Luna, arrested to repress the Yaqui…
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Category: Chiapas Tourism, Counterinsurgency, Immigration, Mexico's Southern Border, National Indigenous Congress, News Summaries, San Sebastián Bachajón, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Mexico, political prisoners, Zapatistas
THEY SEND 3 INDIGENOUS TZELTALS TO PRISON ON FALSE CHARGES IN CHILON By: Hermann Bellinghausen The Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba), as well as the Tzeltal ejido owners of San Sebastián Bachajón, Chiapas, denounced the detention,…
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EDITORIAL 3: BEYOND THE SHARING [This editorial appears in Spanish in Number 3 of the Revista Rebeldía Zapatista.] The Sharing is something beyond. Compañeras and compañeros of the Sixth in Mexico and the world: For us, the sharing [1] was…
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Category: EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Zapatistas
CHIAPAS INDIANS IN DEFENSE OF LIFE AND TERRITORY By: Gaspar Morquecho Laguna Suyul, San Juan Chamula, September 7, 2014 A little more than 2,000 people, between boys and girls, men, women and elderly people met in Laguna Suyul, convoked by…
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Chiapas Support Committee/Comité de Apoyo a Chiapas P.O. Box 3421, Oakland, CA 94609 Tel: (510) 654-9587 Email: cezmat@igc.org http://www.chiapas-support.org http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chiapas-Support-Committee-Oakland/
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Category: Autonomous Zapatista Education, Autonomy, Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, Events, EZLN, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, National Indigenous Congress
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News
CNI and EZLN: UNITED AGAINST DISPOSSESSION By: Luis Hernández Navarro Gatherings of popular organizations are celebrated practically every month in the most hidden corners of the country. In them it is sought to confront the dispossession of their lands, territories…
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Category: Dispossession, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Luis Hernández Navarro, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, La Realidad, Latin America, Zapatistas