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The Inter-Oceanic Corridor Lacks Water
By Emilio Godoy / IPS Photo Caption: The megaproject places greater pressure on water resources in a region where abundance and overexploitation of the resource coexist. For example, according to Conagua figures, of the 21 aquifers in Oaxaca, five register…
Read MoreImmediate release for José Díaz Gómez, an EZLN support base
To the national and international SixthTo the signatories to the Declaration for LifeTo the honest mediaTo those who struggle for truth and justice From the Network of Resistances and Rebellions Ajmaq we make this pronouncement.. We know that prisons are…
Read MoreNeoliberal integration and defense of territory
By: Raúl Romero* When in 2001 the Mexican political class denied the possibility of a profound reform of the Mexican State, which through recognition of the San Andrés Sakamch’en de los Pobres Accords opened the door to a new relationship between…
Read MoreChiapas and the Zapatistas face a dramatic increase in violence, Update on Counterinsurgency
By: Mary Ann Tenuto SánchezJuly 28, 2023 At the end of August 2022 and early in October 2022, the Chiapas Support Committee published a two-part report on the dramatic increase in violence in the Mexican state of Chiapas, home to…
Read MoreDehumanization of the immigrant and political war in the US
By: Miguel Tinker Salas* and Luis Duno Gottberg** Dehumanizing the other is a step prior to the violation of their human rights. The transformation of the immigrant experience into an abstract statistic, into a criminal act, into an excuse to…
Read MoreZibechi: Why There Is No Anti-War Movement
By: Raúl Zibechi Concerned about the sliding of the war initiated in Ukraine into a third world war, the Spanish writer Rafael Poch reflects with arguments that are also valid for Mexico, Central America and the rest of Latin America:…
Read MorePostcards from the war. Part II
By: Raúl Romero* Tuesday, July 5, 2023, in Nayarit, La Jornada correspondent Luis Martín Iñiguez Sánchez is disappeared. A few days later they will find his lifeless body. Monday, July 10, 2023, in Guerrero, more than 5 thousand people, identified…
Read MoreVideo: The Caravana El Sur Resiste visits Puente Madera
Chiapas Support Committee members who were on the El Sur Resiste | The South Resists Caravan film an interview with the women of Puente Madera and the elected community authority. They describe their town’s fight to prevent the construction of…
Read MoreLeaders from Pantelhó’s 86 communities warn they will rise up in arms
By: Chiapas Paralelo Representatives of the 86 rural communities and the 18 neighborhoods in the town of Pantelhó, asked Chiapas Governor Rutilio Escandón Candenas, and the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), to dismantle the Los Herrera armed group, because if…
Read MorePostcards from the War
By: Raúl Romero Wednesday, June 28, a car bomb explodes in Guanajuato; in Tapachula, Chiapas, a grenade is thrown at a Secretary of Public Security base. Thursday, June 29, former vigilante leader Hipólito Mora is assassinated in Michoacán. Friday, June…
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