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In Mexico, Mining Law Reform is “Half-Baked”
By: Renata Bessi President Andrés Manuel López Obrador published, on May 8th in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), the reforms to the Mining, National Waters, Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection, and Prevention and Integral Waste Management Laws, approved…
Read MoreMaya Train change causes discord in Nicolas Bravo
Text by: Arturo Contreras Camero, Pie de Página MEXICO CITY – “We expected the train to pass through the town, to generate the sale of our products, we thought sales were going to grow, but now where they left it…
Read MoreA Municipal agent, his daughter and son disappear, 300 meters from a military post in Chiapas
By: Isaín Mandujano In the ejido Sinaloa, municipality of Frontera Comalapa, fear is lived, terror is breathed. irst it was the Ejidal Commissioner, Rolando Rodríguez Molares kidnapped and disappeared in September 2022; seven months later they came for the municipal…
Read MoreThe CIOAC attacks state police offices in Pichucalco
On Tuesday night, members of the Independent Central of Agricultural and Campesino Workers (CIOAC) [1], shot up and burned the offices of the state police and the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) in Pichucalco, to protest the arrest of one…
Read MoreThe Caravan arrives in San Cristóbal after touring six states
By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas Members of the caravan called El Sur Resiste | The South Resists, organized by the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), arrived in San Cristóbal, after touring the states of Oaxaca, Veracruz,…
Read MoreDay 9: Xpujil, Campeche – The Army reconfigures Maya territory illegally
On day 9 of the El Sur Resiste | The South Resists caravan, we visited the Xpujil [1] community, Calakmul, Campeche; one of the places where section 7 of the Maya Train project is being built and has one of…
Read MoreDay 8 – Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo: Maya Jungle leveled by Maya Train
On the 8th day of the El Sur Resiste | The South Resists Caravan arrived in the city of Felipe Carillo Puerto where we marched through the streets of the city making visible the problems caused by the Maya Train…
Read MoreDay 7: Valladolid, Yucatán, The people, like the jungle, always sprout
Mar, 05/02/2023 Day 7 of the El Sur Resiste |The South Resists Caravan begins with a ritual among all those who make it up: women and small children, youth and babies, as well as elderly people. Many come from other…
Read MoreDay 6: Candelaria, Campeche: The Maya Train devastates the Candelaria River
On day 6 of the El Sur Resiste Caravan, we arrived in the town of Candelaria, Campeche, one of the communities where the Maya Train project will pass and have a station; and where construction of new tracks is already…
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