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Updates on Aldama: Residents vote amid shooting from Chenalhó
By: Elio Henríquez Excerpted from La Jornada San Cristóbal De Las Casas, Chiapas This Sunday (June 6) in Chiapas 120 municipal presidencies (mayors) were renewed. The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) reported that as of Sunday…
Read More“The Supreme Court ruling against pig farms, a door for the protection of Maya ecology”
LAWYER: A NATIONAL EXAMPLE IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAWSUITS THAT NATIVE PEOPLES USED TO LOSE Above is a government map of pig farms in the Mexican state of Yucatán. By: Blanche Petrich A score of Yucatán peoples listened carefully to the May…
Read MoreCNI members in Chilón, Chiapas are intimidated with rifles
By: Chiapas Paralelo *Chilón is an indigenous municipality with a Tseltal population, where civilian armed groups operate. The Indigenous Government Council (CIG, its initials in Spanish) in Chiapas repudiated the acts of violence and repression of the government and its paramilitary…
Read MoreThey liberate the 17 students and 2 displaced indigenous people, but prohibit political activism
By: Isaín Mandujano Today, a control judge of the El Amate Prison issued the binding to criminal proceedings of the 17 teachers college students (normalistas) and 2 displaced indigenous people, but granted them the precautionary measure of facing their proceedings…
Read MoreNew police eviction of Mactumactzá students
Chiapas police during the withdrawal of Mactumactzá Rural Teachers School students Photo: Juan Carlos Santiago Hernández By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal De Las Casas, Chiapas “The police came to attack us, to repress us,” a member of the student committee…
Read More74 Mactumactzá Women Released
Demonstrations in support of the Mactumactzá students. By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal De Las Casas, Chiapas The 74 students from the Mactumactzá Rural Normal School, (a teachers college for indigenous and campesino students), arrested on May 18 were released yesterday…
Read MoreAGAINST THE REPRESSION OF THE BAD GOVERNMENTS, SUPPORT TO MACTUMACTZÁ RURAL TEACHERS SCHOOL IN CHIAPAS AND TO THE TEPEHUANO AND WIXÁRIKA PEOPLES IN JALISCO
CNI-CIG and EZLN May 2021 To the Mactumactzá Rural Teachers School, Chiapas: To the Tepehuano and Wixárika peoples of San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, Jalisco: To the human rights organizations and collectives: To the National and International Sixth: To the communications…
Read MoreMactumactzá in the crosshairs
A march demanding the freedom of the students arrested and imprisoned. By: Tanalís Padilla* La Jornada Sunday, May 23, 2021 The Mactumactzá students’ protest and the Chiapas government’s repression show us one more time the precariousness under which the rural…
Read MoreSupreme Court orders construction of a pig farm in Yucatán to stop
Photo: Homún residents protest against the pig farm Text by: Eduardo Murillo La Jornada | May 20, 2021 The construction of a mega pig farm in Homún, Yucatán, will remain stopped because the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation…
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