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What’s missing is missing

April 2018 To the CIG Support Networks and Marichuy booths: To those who participated in the Civil Association “The time has come for the flourishing of the peoples:” To the National and International Sixth: To the people of Mexico: To…

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EZLN: They reward the cheaters, they punish the just (Marichuy); do they now see that we were not from Salinas?

Subcomandante Galeano, before Marcos, of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), defended Marichuy’s campaign that did not meet the number of signatures necessary for run as a candidate to the Presidency, but she did obtain…

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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…

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María de Jesús Patricio and the CIG: what was achieved

By: R. Aída Hernández Castillo* On February 19 the time period for registration of independent candidates to the Presidency of the Republic ended. Only three “independent” candidates attained registration, all three with daily expenses equal or greater than those of…

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Marichuy: If I don’t attain the candidacy, the struggle will continue

By: Blanche Petrich María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, Marichuy, who aspires to an independent candidacy to the Presidency, and five council women from different ethnicities on the Indigenous Government Council-National Indigenous Congress recognized that if at the end of the…

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Highway accident of Marichuy and her team in BCS; 1 dead and at least 8 injured

  By: Antonio Heras and Raymundo León Mulegé, Baja California Sur (BCS) One of the three vehicles on the caravan of María de Jesús Patricio, spokesperson for the Indigenous Government Council (CIG, its initials in Spanish) and an aspirant to…

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The word of Marichuy

By: Luis Hernández Navarro We didn’t bring you caps, T-shirts, umbrellas, sandwiches or food supplies, María de Jesús Patricio says in some of the meetings on the tour she leads. What we bring is the word that they sent us…

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EZLN: 24 years of dignity and ethical congruence

By: Gilberto López y Rivas Last January 1 one more anniversary was completed of the uprising of the Zapatista Mayas by which the existence of an insurgent group in the majority composed of Indigenous was made public, and which based…

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EZLN: anniversary message

By: Magdalena Gómez The General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) issued a message last January 1; I will emphasize some aspects of it. It repeats and bases the call to organization from below,…

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Marichuy in University City

DISPOSSESSION, GRIEVANCES, PROPOSALS By Adolfo Gilly Last November 28, María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, Marichuy, visited our University City to dialogue and explain her candidacy and her program to a crowd of students and professors that, having as a protective…

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