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Autonomous region members report a new ORCAO armed attack against BAEZLN in Ocosingo

By Desinformemonos | February 12, 2024 Mexico City | Desinformémonos. Residents of the autonomous region of Moisés & Gandhi, Chiapas, reported a new armed attack against the Support Bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (BAEZLN) by the Regional…

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Chiapas: Armed group displaces Zapatista community La Resistencia

by Elio Henriquez, La Jornada correspondent | February 3, 2024 San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. The National Network of Civil Human Rights Organizations “All Rights for All” (Red TDT, Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos Todos los…

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Chiapas and the Zapatistas face a dramatic increase in violence, Update on Counterinsurgency

By: Mary Ann Tenuto SánchezJuly 28, 2023 At the end of August 2022 and early in October 2022, the Chiapas Support Committee published a two-part report on the dramatic increase in violence in the Mexican state of Chiapas, home to…

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In Baja, Veracruz and Puebla, activists demand a stop to the paramilitary attacks on EZLN communities

The official denialism favors impunity of the aggressors: Frayba By: Antonio Heras, CorrespondentMexicali, Baja California On Sunday morning, members of the Mexicali Resissste Movement protested the armed attacks against communities of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de…

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EZLN support base injured in armed attack on the Moisés y Gandhi community

On May 23, 2023, Jorge López Sántiz, an indigenous Tseltal member and support base of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) was admitted to the Dr. Gilberto Gomez Maza Hospital in the city of Tuxtla…

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The Tseltal communities that resist the National Guard

Text and photos: Orsetta Bellani in Pie de Página The Chilón Community Government is opposed to the megaprojects and the presence of National Guard barracks, which has now been constructed by order of Sedena, [1] thus violating the right of…

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In Chiapas, paramilitaries expel Tseltals for refusing to buy weapons

Differences over the use of 20 million pesos that they won in the presidential plane raffle derived into the expulsion of 28 Tseltal families from the community of Nacimiento, [1] in Ocosingo Municipality, who allegedly refused to buy firearms.Photo: Displaced…

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Orcao Destroys Zapatista Building in Patria Nueva

Orcao Destroys A House of EZLN Support Bases, Denounces Good Government Junta Para leer este artículo en español: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/08/21/politica/015n1pol ** It points out that the three levels of “bad government” organize attacks on autonomous territories ** The house served as a…

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Zapatista Bases Denounce Attacks by the Orcao

EZLN Bases Denounce Attacks by the ORCAO para leer en español: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/08/16/politica/016n1pol ** They are paramilitaries and have the support of police, assure the Zapatistas ** The aggressors come from the Guadalupe Victoria, Las Conchitas and Pojcol Ejidos By: Hermann Bellinghausen…

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