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By: Raúl Zibechi The nation or region that does not have a strategic project, and holds on firmly to the steering wheel in the worst geopolitical storms is destined to get dragged along by the dominant winds. Latin America…
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SYSTEMIC CHAOS IS INSTALLED IN SOUTH AMERICA By: Raúl Zibechi I propose understanding the coyuntura (juncture) through which South America passes as the region’s entry into the situation of systemic chaos that the world travels through. I postulate that last weekend’s…
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U.N. URGES MEXICO TO CREATE AN ATTORNEY GENERAL’S UNIT AGAINST ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES By: Afp and Dpa (agencies) Geneva. The UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances [1] recommended to Mexico the creation of a “an attorney general’s unit specialized in investigating forced…
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Proposal for a popular citizens convention to re-found Mexico By: Agencies In Mexico City, Bishop Raúl Vera López, activists, clergy, members of campesino, union and social organizations and survivors of the violence that envelops Mexico presented the initiative of a Popular Citizens…
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PEÑA NIETO’S FIRST YEAR: Iraq on Our Southern Border BY: MOLLY MOLLOY JANUARY 2014 Enrique Peña Nieto promised to bring peace to Mexico, but casualty figures during his first year indicate that the country is as violent as ever—at least…
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Category: Counterinsurgency, Dolores Hidalgo, Environment/ecology, Events, EZLN, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border
Tags: Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, environment, La Realidad, Latin America, Mexico, Zapatistas
A PLANNED FAILED STATE By: Raúl Zibechi The State has been converted into a criminal institution criminal where the narco and politicians fuse to control society. A failed State that has been constructed in the last two decades to avoid…
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OCTOBER 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. Zapatista Solidarity with Ayotzinapa, 4 Comunicados, 2 Demonstrations – First, the Zapatistas issued a comunicado expressing solidarity with Ayotzinapa students and announcing that its members would participate silently in the October 8…
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Category: Dispossession, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, National Indigenous Congress, News Summaries, Revolutionary Art, Student Movements, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Latin America, Mexico Teachers Protest, Zapatistas
JOINT DECLARATION OF THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS AND THE EZLN ABOUT THE AYOTZINAPA CRIME AND FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE YAQUI LEADERS (NOTE: CNI members read this text in some of the mobilizations that were held in Mexico on October…
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Category: Counterinsurgency, Environment/ecology, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Mexico Drug War, National Indigenous Congress, Student Movements, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: Ayotzinapa, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Latin America, Mexico, Mexico Teachers Protest, political prisoners, Yaquis, 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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Chiapas Support Committee 