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EZLN: And in the Zapatista communities?
Zapatista National Liberation Army Mexico February 2016 To the compañer@s of the Sixth: To whom it may concern: Compañeroas, compañeros and compañeras: Now we are going to tell you a little bit about the Zapatista communities, where the support bases…
Read MoreEZLN: And meanwhile in the partisan communities
ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY Mexico February 2016 To the compañer@s of the Sixth To whom it may concern Compas and non-compas: What we tell you comes from the very own voice of indigenous partisans that live in the different zones…
Read MorePope Francisco honors Bishop Ruiz in Chiapas
POPE FRANCISCO HONORS BISHOP SAMUEL RUIZ GARCIA, DEFENDER OF THE POOR By: Isaín Mandujano Today, Pope Francisco put an end to decades of exclusion of a Church that opted for the poor, rescued native ancestral roots and inculcated a liberating…
Read MorePope Francisco says mass in San Cristóbal
FRANCISCO CALLS FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE INDIGENOUS AND ASKING THEIR FORGIVENESS By: Hermann Bellinghausen San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas With his presence Pope Francisco made a broad vindication of the indigenous people, about whom, he said, “we have much…
Read MoreLas Abejas of Acteal issues statement
LAS ABEJAS: THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVE of FRANCISCO HERE IS “TO DEFEND THE PEOPLE of MEXICO” By: Hermann Bellinghausen Acteal, Chiapas The indigenous of Las Abejas of Acteal are convinced that Pope Francisco, on his visit to Chiapan lands, “brings a…
Read MorePeople of Faith in resistance await Pope Francisco in Chiapas
BELIEVING PEOPLE IN RESISTANCE AWAIT POPE FRANCISCO IN CHIAPAS By: Enriqueta Lerma Rodríguez February 2, 2016 Beyond the condemning discourses about the Pope’s visit to Chiapas, accusing the event as a form of control of the masses that responds to…
Read MoreVictory in Oxchuc, Chiapas
THE MAYOR OF OXCHUC RESIGNS AFTER SIX MONTHS OF PROTESTS By: Isaín Mandujano Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. (apro). After six months de protests on the part of residents of Oxchuc municipio, María Gloria Sánchez Gómez, mayor-elect of the Green Ecologist Party…
Read MoreChild victims of the war in Chiapas
A PUBLIC APOLOGY WITHOUT THE AGGRESSOR PRESENT; THEY ACCUSE THE ARMED FORCED OF BEING A POWER SUPERIOR TO THE CIVILIAN By: Angeles Mariscal Ever since military personnel arrived in Chiapas in 1994 to carry out actions against the Zapatista National…
Read MoreOxchuc: From a postelectoral conflict to a social one
By: Isaín Mandujano The Oxchuc Rebellion… Many weeks ago Oxchuc went from being a post-electoral conflict to being a social conflict. The post-electoral protest that the ex-candidates for mayor of the Nueva Alianza and the Chiapas Unido started after…
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