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Zibechi: From the Bagua Massacre to autonomous government
By: Raúl Zibechi The formation of Peru’s first autonomous government, on Sunday, November 29 in Soledad community in the Río Santiago District, in the Amazon Province, is the fruit of a long history of frustrations and struggles. That day,…
Read MoreZibechi: Domination and resistance in the favela
By: Raúl Zibechi Pedestrians are the kings to whom cars must surrender. Perhaps it’s the biggest difference between the favela and the asphalt, something neither the media nor analysts of the system repair. The street is the paradise of the…
Read MoreEsteva: It was an atrocious year
Support Zapatista Autonomous Education! It’s anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist! (Just click on the DONATE button.) By: Gustavo Esteva gustavoesteva@gmail.com In Mexico, the moral degradation, cynicism and corruption of the political classes became more and more evident, while the combined violence of…
Read MoreZibechi: The storms that are coming
By: Raúl Zibechi The end of the progressive cycle implies the dissolution of hegemonies and the beginning of a period of dominations, of greater repression against the organized popular sectors. Until now we have been commenting on the causes of…
Read MoreZibechi: The End of the progressive cycle accelerates
By: Raúl Zibechi Each one chooses the place from which she views the world, but that choice has consequences and it determines what she can see and what irremediably escapes her. The point of observation is never a neutral place,…
Read MoreMexico now deports more Central Americans than the U.S.
THE SOUTHERN BORDER PROGRAM INCREASES DEPORTATIONS and RISKS FOR MIGRANTS In seven months, 92,889 undocumented detained; The U.S. Migra arrested 70,448 By: Arturo Cano, Envoy Tenosique, Tabasco To be a migrant one must have good legs and poor hearing. That’s…
Read MoreUN: Over 150,000 dead in Mexico Drug War
UN: OVER 150,000 PEOPLE MURDERED IN MEXICO SINCE DECEMBER 2006 [It is doubtful that anyone, including the UN, really knows the number of dead in Mexico. There are different estimates. The federal government hides its dead and the local agencies…
Read MoreDecolonizing critical thought and rebellions II
By: Gilberto López y Rivas/II The construction of another world in Latin America, according to Raúl Zibechi, is being carried out by means of organizations not state-centric nor hierarchical, which at times don’t even have permanent leadership teams and, as…
Read MoreZibechi: Emancipating the peoples is necessary for a change
ZIBECHI: EMANCIPATING THE PEOPLES IS NECESSARY FOR A CHANGE IN THE POLITICAL CULTURE By: Fabiola Palapa Quijas The Uruguayan writer and journalist Raúl Zibechi (Montevideo, 1952) considers that the history of Latin America has been centered on the union, the…
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