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They murder a leader of Las Abejas of Acteal
Above Photo: Simón Pedro Pérez López and his family. CRIMINAL GROUPS HARASS INDIGENOUS AREAS OF THE CHIAPAS HIGHLANDS (LOS ALTOS) By: Angeles Mariscal Simón Pedro Pérez López had been the channel for denouncing criminal groups linked to drug trafficking and…
Read MoreMining threatens the world’s most magical forest
By: Yessica Morales Daniel Pineda Vera, a biologist, said that the humid mountain jungle, is today considered as “the world’s most magical forest,” and can be seen inside the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve in Chiapas; in it are emblematic species…
Read MoreForced disappearance and genocide of the poor
By: Aída Hernández Castillo The term “genocide of the poor” is a concept that don José Dolores Suazo, of the Committee of Disappeared Migrants from the Center of Honduras (Cofamicenh), has been proposing in various public spaces, expanding the use…
Read MoreThe Journey for Life: Where Are We Going?
A clarification: Many times, when we use “los Zapatistas” we are not referring to the men, but to the Zapatista peoples. And when we use “las Zapatistas”, we are not describing women, but the Zapatista communities. So you will find…
Read MoreInternational companies have taken possession of more than 36 thousand hectares of land in Chiapas
Thousands of acres planted with oil palm Photo: Aldo Santiago López. By: Yessica Morales MAYAN COMMUNITIES in CHIAPAS DENOUNCE THAT OIL PALM TAKES WATER and LAND FROM THEM Slowly but surely, international oil companies have taken possession of more than…
Read MoreThe EZLN mission docks in Galicia, which it renames “Insubordinate Land”
By: Armando G. Tejeda Madrid At 6:10 in the afternoon –European time–, Squadron 421, made up of the Zapatista delegation that sailed the seas to travel from Mexico to this continent, set foot on terra firma in Vigo, one of…
Read MoreTime and Zapatismo
By: Sergio Rodríguez Lazcano Photo: Francisco Lion How much time did the Zapatistas take to decide something as important and transcendental as it is to tour the world to dialogue, to listen, to see, to feel, to probe, to know,…
Read MoreLetter from the Zapatista Sixth Commission to “The Hour of the Peoples Has Come” Collective
By SupGaleano May you all receive a hug… well, several. We wanted to send you a greeting… ok, several, and, taking advantage of the flight of these letters, to ask for your support. It turns out that, for the Journey…
Read MoreMexican government denies passports to EZLN delegates; Galeano accuses racism
From the Editors of La Jornada The Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE, its initials in Spanish) has denied a passport to several indigenous people who were designated as delegates of the Ejército Zapatista National Liberation Army in a commission that will…
Read MoreThe 7 Zapatista delegates arrive in The Azores, Portugal, aboard La Montaña
At 8:23 a.m., the port captain’s boat picked up the crew of La Montaña, reported Subcomandante Galeano. Photo: Screenshot of the video disseminated through Zapatista networks By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas La Montaña, the ship in…
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