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Disappeared defenders
By: Hermann Bellinghausen As I write this, two weeks have passed since the violent kidnapping of Ricardo Lagunes Gasca and Antonio Díaz Valencia in the vicinity of Cohuayana. Their whereabouts are not known nor exactly who took them away, although…
Read MoreA lawyer for Indigenous communities and a communal leader disappear in Michoacán
By: Ernesto Martínez, Elio Henríquez, correspondents and Jessica Xantomila, reporter The lawyer for Indigenous communities Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca and Antonio Díaz Valencia, a teacher and community leader from Aquila, Michoacán, have been missing since January 15, when they returned…
Read MoreIndigenous activist murdered in Cherán, Michoacán
ORGANIZED CRIME “BEHIND THE MURDER” OF CHERÁN ACTIVIST By: Ernesto Martínez Elorriaga Cherán, Michoacán Guadalupe Campanur Tapia, 32, “was very active in the community rounds, in the work of the forest guards and in the cultural workshops. And finally, she…
Read MoreJoint CNI-EZLN Comunicado denouncing repression in Arantepacua, Michoacán
JOINT COMUNICADO of the CNI and the EZLN DENOUNCING REPRESSION AGAINST the PURÉPECHA COMMUNITY of ARANTEPACUA, MICHOACÁN To the Purépecha Community of Arantepacua, Michoacán: To the alternative communications media: To the peoples of the world: The National Indigenous Congress, the…
Read MoreDr. Jose Manuel Mireles and 69 more arrested
[On Friday, June 27 around 5:30 PM, members of the federal police and the Mexican Army arrested Doctor José Manuel Mireles and 69 other autodefensas that were accompanying him, in the administrative district (tenencia) of La Mira. Around 30 federal…
Read MoreMexico’s Armed Self-Defense Forces Surge
MEXICO’S ARMED SELF-DEFENSE FORCES SURGE Questions, contradictory narratives and, above all, calls for calm energize the daily coverage and debate over the armed self-defense phenomenon sweeping parts of Mexico. For their part, corporate media outlets like Televisa play up the…
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