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What is the gringos’ interest in Sonora: drugs or lithium?
By: Zosimo Camacho Will the United States soon stay on the sidelines of the world’s largest exploitation of lithium? Even when this deposit is a few kilometers beyond its southern border? Today, the largest lithium deposit on the planet in…
Read MoreMilitarization in Mexico Advances with a Red Zone in the South-Southeast
By: Eugenia Lopez Translated by El Enemigo Común Militarism in Mexico is increasing. President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, along with the commander of the National Guard Luis Ramirez Bucio, at an August 13th press conference shared a document titled “The…
Read MoreConsultation for the Maya Train will start December 14
By: Chiapas Paralelo * It will be the National Tourism Fund and the Secretary of the Treasury who will analyze the final cost, but it is estimated that the figure will be between 120 and 150 billion pesos. It’s worth remembering…
Read MoreInvitation to a Gathering in Defense of Territory and Mother Earth
To the peoples of Mexico and of the world: To the national and international Sixth: To the CIG support networks: To the press: Capitalism is a world economic system that has, since its birth, operated against human life and our…
Read MoreDetention of migrant children will set a record
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) expressed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) the lack of protection and attention to child and adolescent migrants and warns that this year the number of detentions of migrant children will set…
Read MoreMexico’s historic rescue of Evo
Between Monday and Tuesday (November 11 and 12), in a scenario of more than 10 thousand kilometers, a political, diplomatic, technical and aeronautic feat took place that corroborated Mexico’s condition as a guarantor of the right of asylum: the rescue…
Read More36 years of clandestine life
By: Gloria Muñoz Ramírez Evaluating the 36 years of existence of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) it not an ideological issue, but rather an act of honesty. This November 17 marks 10 years…
Read MoreThey demand breaking up the armed groups in Chenalhó
By: Isaín Mandujano From this community in the Chiapas Highlands, indigenous people from a dozen communities that experienced a massive displacement in 2017, today asked the state and federal government to break up the civilian armed groups that operate in…
Read MoreThe Mexican government apologizes to indigenous women raped by the Army in 1994
“THEY PUNISHED US TO PUNISH ZAPATISMO” By: Angeles Mariscal The soldiers recognized them, when on June 4, 1994, Ana, Beatriz and Cecilia González Pérez and their mother Delia Pérez attempted to cross the checkpoint that the Mexican Army put up…
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