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19 years of the caracoles and the good government juntas
By: Gilberto López y Rivas On August 9, we commemorated the 19th anniversary of the creation of the caracoles and the good government juntas (JBG, their initials in Spanish), which replaced the Aguascalientes and their authorities, and that constitute regional…
Read MoreTo govern by obeying: 19 years of the caracoles
By: Raúl Romero* August 9, 2022 was the 19th anniversary of the creation of the Caracoles and the Juntas de Buen Gobierno (Good Government Juntas), a watershed in the history of the Zapatista movement and a process that has become…
Read MoreChiapas: Capitalism, Organized Crime, State Violence and Community Resistance.
CELEBRATING THE 19th ANNIVERSARY OF RESISTANCE OF THE ZAPATISTA CARACOLES Webinar: August 20, 5 pm PT We will celebrate the 19th anniversary of the founding of the Zapatista Caracoles and Good Government Councils (Juntas de buen gobierno) and their extraordinary…
Read MoreAnthropologist and social activist Mercedes Olivera Bustamonte passed away
By: Elio Henríquez San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas Anthropologist and social activist Mercedes Olivera Bustamante, one of the pioneers of feminism in Chiapas, died yesterday at the age of 87, reported Guadalupe Cárdenas Zitle, coordinator of the feminist collective…
Read MoreAutonomy against all odds
By: Magdalena Gómez On August 9, 2003, in Oventic, Chiapas, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) announced the creation of the caracoles and the good government juntas, in substitution pf the Zapatista rebel autonomous municipalities…
Read MoreJoint Statement against the aggressions towards communities of the EZLN’s Caracol 10
Jobel, Chiapas, Mexico On July 28, 2022 To the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional)To the National Indigenous CongressTo the National and International SextaTo the Networks of Resistance and RebellionTo those who sign the Declaration for…
Read MoreForced displacement of 6 Zapatista families in Chilón, houses and belongings burned
New attacks on Support Bases of the Zapatista National Liberation Army Six families from the town of “El Esfuerzo”, Comandanta Ramona Autonomous Municipality. The Federal and State Governments are oblivious in the face of permanent violence and dispossession against autonomous…
Read MoreFrayba documents new attacks on Zapatista community
By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent Mapastepec, Chiapas The Civilian Observation Brigades (Brico, Brigadas Civiles de Observación) installed in the community of Nuevo San Gregorio, Lucio Cabañas autonomous municipality, “have documented new attacks that put at risk six support base families of…
Read MoreUPDATE: Zapatista Rebel Center for Spanish & Mayan Languages is Open: Apply Now to Study May 8-Sept. 1, 2023
Greetings Rebels: We would like to inform you that the Autonomous Zapatista Rebel Center for Spanish and Mayan Languages, CELMRAZ, will restart its activities as of July 25 of the current year, 2022, with new activities and modalities according to…
Read MoreThe right of self-determination of peoples and nations
By: Gilberto López y Rivas /Part 2 In the First World War there is an identification between the principle of nationalities and the right of peoples to align themselves, fundamentally through the Bolsheviks’ theory of political action, on the one…
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