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A repressor of indigenous people, the Morena candidate for mayor of Comitán
[Admin: Mexico holds mid-term elections during 2021, so there’s lots of news about the candidates.] From the Editors The Morena party nominated former PRI member Jorge Constantino Kánter for municipal president of Comitán, Chiapas. He is one of the most…
Read MoreThe war of attrition against the Zapatista communities
The strategy of the Andrés Manuel López Obrador Government is completed with the installation of new camps and National Guard bases in the Ocosingo region, which goes hand in hand with the reactivation of armed groups such as the ORCAO…
Read MoreCNI: the indigenous rebellion reaches 24 states
By: Zósimo Camacho The anticapitalist indigenous struggle extends throughout national territory. The left opposition to the “fourth transformation” adds hundreds of communities of 179 municipalities in 24 states. The CNI reiterates that its struggle is peaceful, although its territories are…
Read MoreChiapan demons
By: Luis Hernández Navarro The lifeless body of Ignacio Pérez Girón appeared on the side of the Tuxtla Gutiérrez-San Cristóbal free highway (in other words, not the toll road). It had signs of torture. Two days earlier, on May 4…
Read MoreVictories of the EZLN
HAPPY NEW YEAR | ¡FELIZ AÑO! By: Hermann Bellinghausen The three musketeers are not the same, the joke would say, 25 years later. Of course not! If they were, what would be the point of commemorating a quarter of a…
Read MoreThe CIG: results of the irreverence
By: Raúl Romero* On February 19 the time period expired for turning in (INE) the signatures of citizens that supported the initiative of the Indigenous Government (CIG, its initials in Spanish) to the National Electoral Institute (INE). In its latest…
Read MorePatriarchy, Mother Earth and feminisms
By: Raúl Zibechi Caring for the environment, or Mother Earth, is a women’s thing, according to a recent study in the Scientific American, a magazine published at the end of December, which points out that “women have surpassed men in…
Read MoreThe Hour for Our Peoples to Flourish Has Arrived
ANOTHER STEP FORWARD A Joint communiqué from the National Indigenous Congress and the Sixth Commission of the EZLN greeting the first members of the civil association, “The Hour for Our Peoples to Flourish Has Arrived.” This is a required legal…
Read MoreMarichuy, the independent candidate close to the EZLN
Marichuy, the independent candidate always close to the EZLN since 1994 and one of the founders of the CNI By: Isaín Mandujano “Even with all our contradictions, this movement goes on, because to the peoples to whom we are not…
Read MoreMexico: the legacy of the left | Pablo González Casanova
By: Pablo González Casanova The EZLN invited the former rector of the UNAM to offer a conference at the seminar ‘The walls of capital, the cracks of the left’, and he explained what left ideology is. He also criticized the…
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