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Communiqué from the EZLN’s CCRI-CG And, We Broke the Siege
Communiqué from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee—General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army Mexico August 17, 2019 To the People of Mexico: To the Peoples of the World: To the National Indigenous Congress—Indigenous Governing Council: To the National and…
Read MoreAdagio-Allegro Molto in E Minor: A Possible Reality (from the Notebook of the Cat-Dog)
“As you know, madness is like gravity…all it takes is a little push.” The Joker in the role of Heath Ledger (or was it the reverse?) Nobody knows for sure how it all started. Not even the Tercios Compas [Zapatista…
Read MoreThe Overture: Reality As Enemy
“If our epoch thinks this way,” the world says to itself, “who is (no) one to say otherwise”? Who are the politicians to do so if they should obey us? Who are the judges to do so if their decisions…
Read MoreGaleano: With the current government, it rains on wet for the original peoples
[A new communiqué entitled “Overture: reality as the Enemy” is available in Spanish on Enlace Zapatista (link below). When the English translation is available, we’ll post it. Meanwhile, here’s a summary from La Jornada.] By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal De…
Read MoreEZLN: The Opening Act
ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY MEXICO August 2019. Testing, testing… One… two… testing… Testing one two three… testing… “¿Hello, hello, hello, how low?” From the… wait a minute! Did the Sup just quote the Nirvana track “Smells Like Teen Spirit”? What’s…
Read MoreThe Maya Train could put biosphere reserves at risk
By: Angélica Enciso L. and Fernando Camacho Calakmul, in Campeche, because of its continuous extension of vegetation, is the second most important rainforest reserve of tropical America, after the Amazon. The Sian Ka’an area, in Quintana Roo, shelters a system…
Read MoreThe 85th anniversary of the march that created Tila
*Almost a century after they marched from the municipality to the Chiapas capital, residents remembered the feat of their great-grandparents by bringing forward the creation of the municipality Residents of the municipality of Tila celebrated the 85th anniversary of…
Read MoreThe indigenous struggle of today can be the last: Carlos González
Extinction of the indigenous peoples would also be the end of Mexico as a nation, warns the Nahua lawyer Carlos González, a member of the CIG-CNI. The struggle that the “Fourth Transformation” imposes on them is definitive, he maintains. They…
Read MoreThe lives of indigenous Chiapas prisoners at risk after 132 days
The Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba Center) made an urgent call to the authorities of the Chiapas government to immediately provide adequate medical attention to the prisoners on a hunger strike, in the Center of Social…
Read MoreFrayba: forced displacement of 36 people from Chol community in Chiapas
By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas El Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) denounced that six families of the la organization Ikoltyañtyel Lak Lumal (The hope of our peoples, in the Chol language), which…
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