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Day 4 – Oteapan, Veracruz: Resisting displacement that only benefits the rich
Oteapan is a community that was displaced once before. It is still present in the collective memory that 300 years ago the community had to leave their lands located on the border between the states of Tabasco and Veracruz. They denounce that…
Read MoreCNI-EZLN Pronouncement
PRONOUNCEMENT OF THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS AND THE EZLN IN RESPONSE TO THE VIOLENT EVICTION OF THE “TIERRA Y LIBERTAD” CAMP IN THE MIXE COMMUNITY OF MOGOÑE VIEJO, GUICHICOVI, OAXACA, BY THE FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS To the peoples of…
Read MoreThey evict campesinos who block work on the trans-isthmus train in Oaxaca
Above Photo: Members of the “Tierra y Libertad” encampment, who have maintained a blockade for 60 days in Guichicovi, Isthmus de Tehuantepec municipality, were expelled yesterday by members of the National Guard, Navy and state police. To the right, members…
Read MoreDay 3 – El Sur Resiste caravan joins protest against the Interoceanic Corridor
On the third day of the tour, the arrival was with the compañeros of UCIZONI (Union of Indigenous Communities of the Northern Zone of the Isthmus), who the night before provided a place to spend the night and take food…
Read More“The Territory is ours and we will defend resisting”
By: Diana Manzo / IstmoPress News Agency #PuenteMadera (#Istmopress) – The voices and struggles of the peoples, collectives, communities and defenders reached Oaxaca on the Southern Caravan, which left Chiapas yesterday. The objective is to articulate the struggles around defense…
Read MoreThe South Resists | El Sur Resiste: Day 2 – Oaxaca
By: Yessica Morales They invited all the organizations from below and to the left with a presence in Chiapas, in the region of the Isthmus, Tabasco and the Yucatan Peninsula, to communicate through elsurresiste@riseup.net, to add themselves to the events…
Read MoreThe South Resists | El Sur Resiste: The caravan begins
By: Pie de Página Text: Arturo Contreras Camero Indigenous peoples from the territories affected by the megaprojects of the López Obrador government will tour the points of greatest conflict throughout six southeast Mexican states. Their objective is to unite their…
Read MoreLacandón comuneros accuse Julia Carabias of seeking to divide and confront them
By: Isaín Mandujano Authorities of the Lacandón Zone’s Communal Assets (LZCA), [also known as the Lacandón Zone Commons], denounced that with legal devices and influence peddling, the environmentalist Julia Carabias Lillo, through her civil organizations, Natura and Mexican Ecosystems, intends…
Read MoreSan Cristóbal, under police and military siege
By: Isaín Mandujano After the violent events on Monday that left three people riddled with bullets and three houses burned, the municipal and state police forces, as well as the Mexican Army and the National Guard (NG) took control of…
Read MoreA giant named Pablo González Casanova
By: Luis Hernández Navarro For years, every night before sleeping, the academic Pablo González Casanova [1] read poetry or theatre. From a very young age, as an inheritance from his father, he memorized some poems. With them, he fed his…
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