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ANATOMY OF A PARAMILITARY ATTACK: A REPORT FROM SAN MANUEL By: Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez “Manuel Velasco state paramilitary chief, Enrique Peña Nieto supreme paramilitary chief” That’s what the letrero (hand-painted sign) says in front of the Zapatista bodega at the Cuxuljá…
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Category: Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, Dolores Hidalgo, Human Rights, Mexico's Southern Border
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, La Realidad, Marcos, Mexico, Zapatistas
SEPTEMBER 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY  In Chiapas 1. The EZLN Issued 2 Comunicados – The first is a joint demand with the National Indigenous Congress for the freedom of the Yaqui leader Mario Luna, arrested to repress the Yaqui…
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Category: Chiapas Tourism, Counterinsurgency, Immigration, Mexico's Southern Border, National Indigenous Congress, News Summaries, San Sebastián Bachajón, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Mexico, political prisoners, Zapatistas
EDITORIAL 3: BEYOND THE SHARING [This editorial appears in Spanish in Number 3 of the Revista Rebeldía Zapatista.] The Sharing is something beyond. Compañeras and compañeros of the Sixth in Mexico and the world: For us, the sharing [1] was…
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Category: EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Zapatistas
CHIAPAS INDIANS IN DEFENSE OF LIFE AND TERRITORY By: Gaspar Morquecho Laguna Suyul, San Juan Chamula, September 7, 2014 A little more than 2,000 people, between boys and girls, men, women and elderly people met in Laguna Suyul, convoked by…
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[This is the last of the documents from the Exchange between the Zapatista Peoples and the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico. The translation came out the day we left for Chiapas.] 2nd DECLARATION from the EZLN-CNI EXCHANGE: ON the DISPOSSESSION of…
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Category: Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, La Realidad, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Zapatistas
[We’re back from an amazing visit to Zapatista Territory and have lots of news about the Zapatistas, the recent attacks on San Manuel, immigration on Mexico’s southern border and the southern border strategy (Plan Sur). We’re looking forward to seeing…
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Category: Autonomous Zapatista Education, Counterinsurgency, Events, Immigration, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Southern Border
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, EZLN, Marcos, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Zapatistas
AUGUST 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. Zapatista Exchange (Sharing) with the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) – The Zapatistas held an “exchange” (sharing) with the National Indigenous Congress (CNI, its initials in Spanish) in La Realidad between August 4…
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Category: Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, Dolores Hidalgo, EZLN, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, National Indigenous Congress, News Summaries
Tags: Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, La Realidad, Marcos, Mexico, Zapatistas
[This transcript is very long and we have divided it into 2 parts. Here’s part 1. Part 2 is below in a separate post.] Part I of Transcription of the EZLN Press Conference with the free, autonomous, alternative, or whatever-you-call-it…
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Category: Autonomy, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, La Realidad, Marcos, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Zapatistas
We think that in the long run the free, autonomous, alternative media are going to fill—or could fill—this gap that is occurring in the exchange of information at a global level. The internet can’t fill the gap, though you may…
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Category: Autonomy, EZLN, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, La Realidad, Marcos, Mexico, Zapatistas
ORGANIZATIONS AGREE ON A PLAN OF ACTION IN DEFENSE OF LAND AND AGAINST THE REFORMS By: Javier Salinas Cesáreo, Correspondent San Salvador Atenco, Mexico, August 17, 2014 Representatives of some 100 campesino, union and social organizations, defined a plan of…
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