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Confrontation in Chiapas leaves one dead

AUTHORITIES and TEACHERS ACCUSE EACH OTHER of PROVOKING TEACHER’S DEATH By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas One teacher dead, six detained and five injured (three of them police) is the result of a confrontation that occurred…

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Ayotzinapa, 11 months of searching

  By: Emir Olivares y José Antonio Román [This is an abbreviated version of the La Jornada article cited below.] It has been 11 months of ‘‘rage, indignation, courage, dignity and search;” almost one year without knowing the whereabouts of…

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The blitzkrieg against the teachers

By: Luis Hernández Navarro Pursued by the public ridicule provoked by El Chapo Guzmán’s escape, the uneven devaluation of the peso, the stagnant economy, the failure of the first oil round and by the incessant violation of human rights, the…

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SupGaleano: Chiapas, Mexico, the World

Chiapas, Mexico, the World. (Passage from the text “A World War,” May-June 2015, by SupGaleano, in “Our View of the Hydra,” part II of volume I of “Critical Thought Versus the Capitalist Hydra”) The first thing that got our attention…

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Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories

PRESENTATION OF THIS IMPORTANT NEW BOOK IN OAKLAND Tuesday, April 28, 7pm at The Omni Commons – https://www.facebook.com/events/1430606940567768/

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Citizen groups propose new Constitution in Mexico

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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3 EZLN Comunicados read to Ayotzinapa Caravan

The Words of Comandante Javier, welcoming the Ayotzinapa Caravan to the Caracol of Oventik, November 15, 2014 Brothers and sisters, parents of the 43 disappeared students, and Students and Teachers from the “Raúl Isidro Burgos” Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa, state…

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Ayotzinapa Caravan meets with EZLN in Oventik

AYOTZINAPA PARENTS and EZLN AGREE TO ARTICULATE A NATIONAL MOVEMENT  By: Gabriela Coutiño San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Nov. 15 – In their visit to Zapatista Territory, parents of the 43 students disappeared from Ayotzinapa Guerrero, agreed with the…

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Ayotzinapa Caravan meets with Zapatistas today

Ayotzinapa Students to meet with EZLN By: Gabriela Coutiño The “Daniel Solís Gallardo” National Information Caravan, consisting of parents and relatives of the disappeared normalistas [1] in Iguala Guerrero, will hold a private meeting with comandantes of the Zapatista National…

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Ayotzinapa and the new civic insurgency

AYOTZINAPA AND THE NEW CIVIC INSURGENCY By: Luis Hernández Navarro Fire devours a vehicle in front of the Chilpancingo government palace. On the chassis of another overturned (vehicle), above one of its sides, furious hands painted: “Justicia.” Guerrero is in…

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