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Mireles: “I am a political prisoner”

“I AM A POLITICAL PRISONER,” MIRELES VALVERDE MAINTAINS By: Sanjuana Martínez, Special to La Jornada Doctor José Manuel Mireles Valverde laughs, cries, gets emotional when his lawyer Talía Vázquez Alatorre tells him about the shows of support that he is…

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Interview with Alberto Patishtán

“I Have Been Free From Day One:” Patishtán By: Hermann Bellinghausen **A prisoner since 2000, he demands that his innocence is admitted “Inside myself I have been free from day one. They tortured me psychologically, threatened me, but I never…

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Albert Patishtán Denied Freedom

[This Thursday (September 12), a Mexican Court rejected  Alberto Patishtán’s appeal for a recognition of innocence. The article below appeared the next day in the Opinion section of La Jornada.] ALBERTO PATISHTÁN: MESSAGE from the STATE By: Luis Hernández Navarro…

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Zapatista News Summary for July 2013

  JULY 2013 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. Renewed Violence in Chenalhó: 3 Beaten and Detained – On July 20, 2 Zapatistas and one non-Zapatista were arrested in the Puebla ejido, municipality of Chenalhó. That is the municipality in…

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9 Indigenous Prisoners and Zapatista Supporters Free!

Nine Indigenous Free In Chiapas; Patishtán Will Continue A Prisoner  ** The governor, Manuel Velasco Coello, went to the prison By: Hermann Bellinghausen, Envoy San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, July 4, 2013 It is the third time that Alberto…

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Zapatista News Summary – June 2013

JUNE 2013 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas                                                                   …

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Marcos: Classmates II. The Political Prisoners

CLASSMATES II. Still missing: THE POLITICAL PRISONERS. June 2013. To the adherents of the Sixth in Mexico and in the World: To the students of the Little Zapatista School: Compañeras, compañeros, compañeroas: In addition to the fallen and the disappeared…

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Chiapas March for Alberto Patishtán’s Freedom

Tzotzils and Teachers March for Patishtán’s Freedom   ** They ask the magistrates “not to continue staining his dignity” ** “Justicia in México is in reverse,” Las Abejas complaint By: Hermann Bellinghausen, Envoy Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, April 19, 2013 In…

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Zapatista News Summary – January 2013

JANUARY 2013 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY  In Chiapas 1. EZLN Declares An End to the Other Campaign – In January the EZLN, through its spokesperson Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, released a 5-part essay entitled THEM AND US. All 5 parts are translated…

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Zapatista News Summary April 2012

APRIL 2012 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. Campaign To Free Alberto Patishtan and Francisco Santiz Lopez – The Fray Bartolome de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) in Chiapas launched an intense national and international campaign to win freedom…

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