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L'Agenda Militant IndépendantWeek-end de solidarité zapatiste samedi 31 à 14h, La Parole Errante, Montreuil <a href="https://agendamilitant.org/a6472" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://agendamilitant.org/a6472</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Mexique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mexique</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chiapas</a>

Scott Campbell"For three months now, local media have been showing arrests on social media—mostly of young, underemployed Indigenous men—who are incriminated in crimes linked to illicit drugs. But the root cause remains the same: the inequality that prevails in Chiapas. Precarity is criminalized, and the real culprits get off scot free."<a href="https://www.ojala.mx/en/ojala-en/a-violent-tug-of-war-is-terrorizing-communities-in-southern-mexico" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ojala.mx/en/ojala-en/a-violent-tug-of-war-is-terrorizing-communities-in-southern-mexico</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mexico</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chiapas</a>

abolitionmediaYouth in the Highlands of Chiapas: Between Hurt and HopeOn Saturday, April 19, the double femicide of the Tseltal sisters Valeria and Deisi Gómez Méndez, murdered with bullets and found in the community of Cruz Obispo, in the municipality of Chamula, was made public on social networks. They were 18 and 14 years old, respectively. They had been kidnapped days before in San Cristóbal de Las Casas (SCLC). Their murder adds to the eight that have occurred so far this year and the 32 reported during 2024 in the state.Violence doesn’t end in an environment where the security strategy imposes despotic and authoritarian police force to publicize what seems to be a long campaign act of the current governor of Chiapas, Eduardo Ramirez. Has a peace pact been made? The prosecutor’s office in charge of the investigations has a past of torture and fabrication of guilty parties that raises doubts when femicides continue and human trafficking, mainly young women and children of indigenous origin, has been established in improvised brothels between SCLC and Chamula.“Why don’t they report it?” asks a visitor. Some cases of abuse are found in the family environment, others are forced to let their daughters come and go on weekends under pressure from organized crime gangs that persist at the local level. The truth is that little is known about the power networks that sustain the abuse, but it is an open secret that coincides with the ferment of criminal governance in the region, and that along with other factors of hopelessness, affects the mental health of young people who commit self-harm and even decide to end their lives; as documented by the Network for the Rights of Children and Adolescents in Chiapas, youth suicides in indigenous communities continue to increase.In addition, since the end of last year around twenty men have been arrested on charges of belonging to local armed groups known as “motonetos,” including a couple of alleged leaders. However, the criminal network remains active and continues to recruit young men in public schools by branding them with tattoos on the back of their heads with the initials of the armed group to which they belong. At the same time, the consumption of drugs such as crystal meth is increasing among this population. Gang membership has become part of their youth identity. It is only a matter of time before the fragile pacts of criminal governance dissolve.But hope also flowers in this land. In recent days the Rebel y Revel Festival: Art, Rebellion and Resistance Towards the Day After” was held in the recently constructed Jacinto Canek caracol, in Tenejapa, where the constant, as in past spaces convened by the Zapatistas, is the participation of hundreds of young men and women support bases who attend, organize themselves and also take advantage of the space to meet and fall in love.Wearing their traditional costumes with tennis shoes, a trio of young people take the microphone to sing their songs of struggle to the rhythm of hip hop; a young woman with her face covered declaims poetry in Tsotsil, others show the paintings they have made illustrating the common life of their grandparents and great-grandparents made with natural materials. These are the third and fourth generations, heirs of the Zapatista resistance, who dress up as bees with balaclavas, polar bears, stilts, dolphins, parrots and other animal species to represent the play “Nature rebels,” originally called “Bichos,” where they show the importance of the organization for the defense of Mother Earth. Among more than five hundred participants of diverse arts in the meeting, this play was positioned as one of the main ones of the event, directed by Subcomandante Moisés, was praised by playwright Luis de Tavira, who called to learn from the hope that the Zapatistas hold as an antidote against the fear that results from a violent society.The hope of flourishing in resistance and sustaining the organizational structure that the Zapatistas call “the Common,” an old practice of the indigenous communities, is a call to defend life, to continue believing that another world is possible, one where young people can live with peace and dignity.<a href="https://ojarasca.jornada.com.mx/2025/05/09/juventud-en-los-altos-de-chiapas-entre-la-herida-y-la-esperanza-6614.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Original text by Carla Zamora Lomelí published in Ojarasca supplement of La Jornada on May 8th, 2025.</a> Translated by Schools for Chiapas.<a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19167" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19167</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/chiapas/" target="_blank">#chiapas</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/ezln/" target="_blank">#ezln</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/mexico/" target="_blank">#mexico</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/north-america/" target="_blank">#northAmerica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/zapatistas/" target="_blank">#Zapatistas</a>

Thomas BarrioHistoire des Zapatistes du Chiapas🌿✨ Découvrez l’histoire des Zapatistes du Chiapas : un soulèvement indigène contre le néolibéralisme en 1994, suivi d’une construction d’autonomie basée sur la démocratie directe, l’égalité et la solidarité. Un modèle inspirant de résistance et d’émancipation sociale. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zapatistes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zapatistes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chiapas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autonomie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autonomie</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/D%C3%A9mocratieDirecte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DémocratieDirecte</a> Origines et fondation de l’EZLN Le mouvement zapatiste trouve ses racines dans les luttes des peuples indigènes du…<a href="https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/histoire-des-zapatistes-du-chiapas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/histoire-des-zapatistes-du-chiapas/</a>

Avispa Mídia⚖️Jorge Luis Llaven, fiscal de <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chiapas</a>, minimiza <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feminicidios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feminicidios</a>. Madres exigen su destitución por negligencia y violencia institucional👉 <a href="https://avispa.org/?p=119689" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://avispa.org/?p=119689</a> 🐝<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TuxtlaGutierrez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TuxtlaGutierrez</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DDHH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DDHH</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mexico</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClaudiaSheinbaum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClaudiaSheinbaum</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Feministas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Feministas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ViolenciaDeG%C3%A9nero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ViolenciaDeGénero</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FelizJueves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FelizJueves</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Morena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Morena</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feminicicio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feminicicio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mujeres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mujeres</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feministas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feministas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/latinoamerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#latinoamerica</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/americalatina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#americalatina</a>

EshaHaberMeksika beşik gibi sallandı!: Alman Yerbilimleri Araştırma Merkezi (GFZ), Meksika'nın Chiapas bölgesinde 6.2 büyüklüğünde bir deprem meydana geldiğini duyurdu. GFZ, depremin 269 km derinlikte gerçekleştiğini açıkladı. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ESHAHABER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ESHAHABER</a>.COM.TR<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haber</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/g%C3%BCndem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gündem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sondakika" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sondakika</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#press</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/worldnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#worldnews</a> <a href="https://www.eshahaber.com.tr/haber/meksika-besik-gibi-sallandi-223052.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eshahaber.com.tr/haber/meksika-besik-gibi-sallandi-223052.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon</a> EshaHaber.com.tr <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meksika" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meksika</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deprem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deprem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chiapas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haber</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sondakika" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sondakika</a>

Radio Onda D'UrtoCHIAPAS: LIBERATI I DUE COMPAGNI DELLE BASI D’APPOGGIO ZAPATISTE SEQUESTRATI A FINE APRILE <a href="https://www.radiondadurto.org/2025/05/05/chiapas-liberati-i-due-compagni-delle-basi-dappoggio-zapatiste-sequestrati-a-fine-aprile/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.radiondadurto.org/2025/05/05/chiapas-liberati-i-due-compagni-delle-basi-dappoggio-zapatiste-sequestrati-a-fine-aprile/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/INTERNAZIONALI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#INTERNAZIONALI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chiapas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Messico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Messico</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/EZLN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EZLN</a>

Scott CampbellThe two members of the Zapatista support bases who were detained by the state have been released. It is interesting the read the EZLN's recounting of events.What stands out is that the acts the two were accused of were committed by other individuals. The Zapatistas claim to have identified those individuals and then turned them over to the state. This series of events is remarked upon as being a success. But is handing people over to the clutches of the state ever an "achievement"? It points to those frictions within autonomies of where autonomy ends and the state begins. Other autonomous projects, such as Cherán, also cooperate with the state at times on issues of "justice." I don't have a solution, but I wonder about other possibilities. If the Zapatistas, correctly, I believe, see the capitalist state as an "empire of death," does anyone deserve to be turned over to it, even those they label "criminals"?<a href="https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2025/05/03/innocent/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2025/05/03/innocent/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mexico</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chiapas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EZLN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EZLN</a>

abolitionmediaGenealogy of the Zapatista “Commons,” Politics of LiberationThe EZLN celebrated together with its support bases a conference commemorating the 31st anniversary of the uprising in Chiapas, in which they reflected on the challenges that the movement is facing. Between April 13 and 19, they are preparing another event: the “(Rebel y revel): encounter of art, rebellion and resistance towards the day after.””When we say common, we say that it has to be of our life for centuries and for centuries, forever from people to people, unity,” explained the insurgent subcomandante Moisés last January 1 in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, where the meeting of “Resistances and rebellions” called by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) took place between December 28 and January 1 of this year, as part of the celebration of the 31st anniversary of the indigenous rebellion of 1994. Now, between April 13 and 19 of this year, the organization is preparing to receive artists from around the world in a meeting called “(Rebel y revel) Arte: encuentro de arte, rebeldía y resistencia hacia el día después,” in three different venues in the rebel territory.In December 2024 the Zapatista movement published that their new political strategy within their communities and autonomous regions would be the “komon” word used within the Mayan communities or “common” in the Spanish language. After a year, the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Clandestine Committee General Command of the EZLN, led by Moisés, but also with Comandante David, explained in detail the “first steps” of this practice that is being developed in the Zapatista Mayan communities. Where does this idea and practice come from?From semi-slavery to liberationIn the territory of Chiapas, by 1910, 92.8% of the peasant population were peons, which explains the inheritance of that regime and dominating power that allowed the concentration of land and labor force. Chiapas remained on the margins of the Mexican revolution, particularly in the agrarian distribution that took place since the 1920s. It did not even experience a “revolution from the outside”, as in Yucatan.From the transformations of the post-revolutionary national State, until the 1940s, the process of making the legal framework for obtaining land more flexible and, therefore, the conversion of important extensions of land into ejidos stood out. This was the implementation of President Lázaro Cárdenas’ reform to the Agrarian Code of 1934, whose main objective was the recognition of the peones acasillados (farm laborers) who lived on the farms as subjects of agrarian rights, which meant that from then on they could also become land applicants. This also brought friction between the local oligarchy and peasants and indigenous people in resistance. The young militants of the EZLN, they were the ones who were born with the inheritance of the old peon farms and who also lived under the repression and the paramilitary groups at the service of landowners and corrupt politicians.In the recent meeting for the 31st anniversary of the EZLN uprising, Moises made a strong criticism of the legal regime of peasant land that comes from years of experience: “Lazaro Cardenas when he gave the plots, in an ejido, one has 2,000 hectares, each (peasant) has 20 hectares. That’s where the problem comes from. Although they worked the land in common, there are no boundaries or fractions. They themselves allowed it, (they said) that it had to be divided.” This process of gradual transfer of collective property into individual ownership is in fact the historical process in which the legal framework of the nascent liberal Mexican State during the 20th century allowed the existence and even encouraged the “individual rights” of peasants. It is the incorporation of land into the regime of capitalist modernity.Zapatista women at CIDECI, January 2025. Photo: Carlos AyalaApplicants for land, sometimes still peons or indentured servants, were repressed and in the best of cases, when some lands were legalized, the peasants were forced to subordinate their loyalty to the cacique, boss, political party or representative of the government in office. This was the difficult exit of the Tojolabal, Tseltal, Tsotsil and Chol Mayas from the period known as the “baldío”, in which the peasants worked “en balde,” that is to say, with miserable pay.It was the decline of the plantation regime in whose experience the Zapatistas express it in the sense of “we left in a ball, in a mass” -and they continue- “They grabbed en masse and then they said we are going to work the milpa in common, our houses in common. We realized that it is better, this way nobody says that this land is mine, this is mine, that is where the anger comes from, the fight of one people against another, (but) this common sense has not been understood because of individualism.”When the indigenous populations of Chiapas became politicized through the influence of liberation theology, a broad conscientization was awakened that in practice allowed the deployment of this liberation struggle and allowed them to leave the regime of semi-slavery exploitation of the old farms, seeking the exodus to the Lacandon Jungle in a “ball” and as a collective. They brought their common customs and the sense of that “promised land” without the old humiliation of bosses and foremen and that gave strength to their rebellion almost twenty years later.In 1974, the fourth centennial of the death of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, one of the defenders of the indigenous people, was commemorated and celebrated. An important work of awareness of the historical context and the social participation of 1,400 delegates from more than 500 communities had already been undertaken. The meeting allowed an important grassroots politicization.Zapatista Support Bases at CIDECI, January 2025. Photo: Carlos AyalaIn 1984, the ruling classes left behind the welfare state and neoliberalism was imposed in Mexico, which began the privatization of national enterprises. By 1991, the neoliberal reform of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari irreversibly modified Article 27 of the Constitution, allowing the sale/purchase of peasant ejido land. The EZLN took up arms in 1994 and despite the 1996 San Andres Accords on culture and indigenous rights, communities were left at the mercy of the penetration and expansion of “legalized” capital, as well as paramilitaries, organized crime, and drug cartels.What has changed?Despite the arrival of the “institutional left”, the so-called Fourth Transformation to power in 2018, the San Andres Pact was not fulfilled. It even expanded the free entry of savage capitalism in Chiapas. The current Zapatista critique even maintains that a peasant social class capable of accumulating wealth and goods has been created: “There are already medium-sized landowners, whoever lent money to a migrant, kept the land. Now any narco-businessman can buy what used to be ejido, what used to be common,” explained Subcomandante Moises in that January meeting. That is to say, there is a free entry for those who have ties to crime to even buy peasant land that was previously protected by the state’s political constitution.But the “progressive” government of former President López Obrador incorporated another program that represented the greatest penetration of capitalist modernity in Chiapas with the official “Sembrando Vida” (Sowing Life), which intensified not only the buying and selling of land, but also dispossession. “They tore apart the ejido lands, before (a peasant) had the right to 20 hectares of land. But with this program it is divided into 8 pieces. Each farmer gets 2 and a half hectares and with the right to sell it,” said Comandante David.“There are people who sold their plot of 20 hectares. And the one who left as a migrant and came back, he himself is working on that which was his land.”This program, promoted by the governments of the Morena party, has led to peasants who used to cultivate the land now receiving cash to plant timber or fruit trees. The peasants take the money, get themselves into debt and then migrate. When they return because they have been deported or because of the death of a family member, they go back to their place of origin to work as employees sometimes on what was their own land, that is, this process is revealed as the mirror of the times of the abandoned land. “Many are already on the street with the “sowing death” program. There are people who sold their 20-hectare plot. And those who left as migrants and returned, they themselves are working what used to be their land,” said the military commander in front of almost a thousand Zapatista support bases in the Indigenous Center for Integral Training-University of the Earth.When the indigenous peasants perceive the ease with which they can divide the inherited or recovered land and take advantage of it momentarily to migrate, then the dispossession is implemented. Sold at a low price, some small landowner will have control and ownership of the land. Now even the former owner of the land loses his communal rights because of the cultural illusion of modernity: “Those who have migrated, it is not because they are poor, it is because of the capitalist system of fashions, so everyone wants to have their watch, their new phone, their latest models. So they leave,” said Moisés.In Chiapas, the Fourth Transformation does not imply the benefit for the peasant population, but rather a change in land use and rent. It is a deception that provokes the increase of individual landowners and the accumulation of capital. In its neoliberal form, this relationship is creating a social class of small and medium landowners who used to be peasants and are now landowners.Faced with this situation, the “common” means returning to that komon a’teltik, which in the Mayan Tojolabal language means, “our work in common.” This collective project unfolds as a policy of liberation and a commitment to life and peace. Generous as it is paradigmatic, the EZLN is lending land to those who lost their property rights because they sold their land and/or migrated, even to non-Zapatistas. With this strategy, the Zapatistas are preparing for that day after the foreseeable capitalist collapse: the hopeful challenge is undoubtedly the sense of community, the “commons.”Subcomandante MoIsés at CIDECI, January 2025. Photo: Carlos AyalaZapatista Support Bases in CIDECI, January 2025, by Carlos Ayala CARLOS AYALA<a href="https://www.elsaltodiario.com/mexico/genealogia-del-comun-zapatista-politica-liberacion" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Original text by Juan Trujillo Limones published in El Salto on March 19th, 2025.</a> *Juan Trujillo Limones is a Mexican anthropologist and journalist. He has conducted several investigations on Chiapas and is a contributor to the Mexican magazine Ojarasca. Translation by Schools for Chiapas.<a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18814" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18814</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/chiapas/" target="_blank">#chiapas</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/ezln/" target="_blank">#ezln</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/mexico/" target="_blank">#mexico</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/north-america/" target="_blank">#northAmerica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/zapatista/" target="_blank">#zapatista</a>

Scott Campbell"The National Indigenous Congress (CNI) denounced that on Saturday, two support base members of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) were arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared for 55 hours in the Tzotzil community of Cotzilnam, municipality of Aldama, Chiapas."The Indigenous men, Baldemar Sántiz Sántiz and Andrés Manuel Sántiz Gómez, were deprived of their freedom in an operation in which at least 39 vehicles were deployed with members of the National Guard, Mexican Army, state police and armed civilian groups. In light of this, the CNI and social organizations are calling for urgent global actions to demand their release."<a href="https://avispa.org/urgente-convocan-a-jornadas-globales-por-libertad-de-dos-integrantes-del-ezln/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://avispa.org/urgente-convocan-a-jornadas-globales-por-libertad-de-dos-integrantes-del-ezln/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mexico</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chiapas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EZLN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EZLN</a>

domoOrgulloso de participar (y pronto vivir) en Crisalium, una ecoaldea en el sur de México. Muchos años de aprendizajes, de aportes, de alegrías, de conversaciones, de tequios y enbarradas...<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/permacultura" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#permacultura</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecoaldea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecoaldea</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autonom%C3%ADa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autonomía</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chiapas</a> <a href="https://crisalium.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://crisalium.org/</a>

Avispa MídiaHablando de la CLAUSURA de la PLANTA EXTRACTORA de aceite de la empresa <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oleopalma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oleopalma</a> en <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chiapas</a>, les dejamos un documental que @Avispa_Midia acaba de lanzar¿Qué tantas porquerías hay tras las plantaciones de <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PalmaAfricana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PalmaAfricana</a> certificadas bajo <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RSPO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSPO</a>?👉 <a href="https://youtu.be/xzXbxXlQiqU?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/xzXbxXlQiqU?feature=shared</a> 📽️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PalmaAceitera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PalmaAceitera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palmaaceitera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#palmaaceitera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rspo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rspo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dende" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dende</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palmaafricana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#palmaafricana</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sustentable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sustentable</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/salvalaselva" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#salvalaselva</a>

Avispa Mídia<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%C3%9AltimaHora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ÚltimaHora</a> 🚨 5 plantas extractoras de aceite de palma en <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chiapas</a> fueron clausuradas por contaminar con aguas residuales👉 <a href="https://avispa.org/?p=119555" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://avispa.org/?p=119555</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RacismoAmbiental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RacismoAmbiental</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JusticiaClim%C3%A1tica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JusticiaClimática</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClaudiaSheinbaum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClaudiaSheinbaum</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tuxtlaguti%C3%A9rrez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tuxtlagutiérrez</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PalmaAfricana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PalmaAfricana</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PalmaAceitera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PalmaAceitera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Profepa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Profepa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PueblosIndigenas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PueblosIndigenas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palmaaceitera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#palmaaceitera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palmaafricana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#palmaafricana</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/monocultivos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monocultivos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racismoambiental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racismoambiental</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/justiciaclimatica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#justiciaclimatica</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/justiciaclimatica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#justiciaclimatica</a>

Avispa MídiaSolicitudes de refugio en México caen 56% en 2024: ¿Inoperancia de la <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/COMAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COMAR</a> o barreras deliberadas?👉 <a href="https://avispa.org/?p=119510" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://avispa.org/?p=119510</a> 🐝<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Migracion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Migracion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClaudiaSheinbaum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClaudiaSheinbaum</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/migrantes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#migrantes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/refugiados" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#refugiados</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/INM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#INM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tapachula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tapachula</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chiapas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EEUU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EEUU</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Latinoam%C3%A9rica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Latinoamérica</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Am%C3%A9ricaLatina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AméricaLatina</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Migraci%C3%B3n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Migración</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DDHH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DDHH</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mujeres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mujeres</a>

Radio Onda D'UrtoMESSICO: POLIZIA E MILITARI FANNO SPARIRE DUE COMPAGNI DELLE BASI D’APPOGGIO ZAPATISTE IN CHIAPAS <a href="https://www.radiondadurto.org/2025/04/28/messico-polizia-e-militari-fanno-sparire-due-compagni-delle-basi-dappoggio-zapatiste-in-chiapas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.radiondadurto.org/2025/04/28/messico-polizia-e-militari-fanno-sparire-due-compagni-delle-basi-dappoggio-zapatiste-in-chiapas/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/INTERNAZIONALI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#INTERNAZIONALI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chiapas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Messico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Messico</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/EZLN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EZLN</a>

abolitionmediaMexico. The Kidnapping and Disappearance of Two Zapatistas in Chiapas Is DenouncedStatement from the University Front in Defense of the UACH (Autonomous University of Chiapas)On April 24, 2025, our Zapatista compañeros José Baldemar Santiz Santiz and Andrés Manuel Santiz Gómez were violently detained and disappeared by a joint operation of state and federal forces and armed civilians in San Pedro Cotzilnam, Aldama, Chiapas.We demand their immediate return alive and denounce this act of brutal repression against those who defend their right to autonomy, land and dignity.We want them alive!Stop the War Against the Zapatista Peoples!You are not alone!<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/ezln/" target="_blank">#EZLN</a>#DesapariciónForzada#JusticiaParaJoséYAndrés#Chiapas#VivosLosQueremos<a href="https://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2025/04/27/mexico-denuncian-el-secuestro-y-desaparicion-de-dos-zapatistas-en-chiapas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Resumen Latinoamericano</a>, 27 April, 2025.<a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18713" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18713</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/chiapas/" target="_blank">#chiapas</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/disappearances/" target="_blank">#disappearances</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/ezln/" target="_blank">#ezln</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/mexico/" target="_blank">#mexico</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/north-america/" target="_blank">#northAmerica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/zapatista/" target="_blank">#zapatista</a>

abolitionmediaThe Inheritance of the Struggle for Life in Zapatista Childhood and Youth Mexico City | Desinformémonos. The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) shared a video in which young people and children from 12 to 20 years of age explain in Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Tojolabal and Cho’ol how to make different materials, baskets, musical instruments, among other objects, based on “the knowledge they have inherited from their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and so on for generations.The common thread of their creations, explained the EZLN, “is the repudiation of capitalism, preparing to survive the storm and, the day after, trying to build a new world”. “The school where they learned this knowledge is in the hearts of their fathers, mothers and predecessors,” added the Zapatistas in the communiqué, published in the framework of the “Rebel and Revel” Art Encounter, which began this April 13 in the Zapatista caracol Jacinto Canek.The video shows the young people explaining the making of their baskets with materials “from mother earth”; paintings with inks made with earth and different types of plants to obtain the colors, partitions made with plants and earth; pots, plates, platters; making ‘calhidra’; musical instruments such as drums and flutes that they use for music in their communities’ festivities; “morraletas” and bags; making fire, among other objects and materials.The Rebel and Revel Encounter has brought together more than a thousand artists, musicians, filmmakers, poets, sculptors, dancers and radio broadcasters from Zapatista communities and other parts of Mexico and the world, such as Germany, Brazil, France, Greece, Palestine, Peru and Sudan. Since it began, musical numbers, dances and artistic exhibitions have been presented.Until April 20, the event organized by the EZLN will be a space for any artist “who is against the capitalist, patriarchal, racist, discriminatory and criminal system, and, of course, who feels called” to exhibit their art.<a href="https://desinformemonos.org/encuentro-de-arte-rebel-y-revel-poner-el-arte-para-el-comun/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">See the photos by Luis Enrique Aguilar of Desinformémonos here:</a>Here is the complete communiqué:Here we present a summary where young Zapatista women and men show some of the knowledge they have inherited from their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and so on for generations.  In their own mother tongue, of Mayan roots, they explain how they make baskets with materials from mother earth; paintings with inks made with earth and different types of plants to obtain the colors, their drawings represent their past, their present and the future that is on the horizon and for which we fight; partitions also made with plants and earth; pots, plates, platters; manufacture of calhidra; musical instruments such as drums and flutes that they use for music in the festivities of their communities; making ropes and, with them, weaving nets to carry corn, backpacks and bags; making fire; and paintings on skin with natural inks.  They speak in their languages Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Tojolabal and Cho’ol. The common thread is the repudiation of capitalism, preparing to survive the storm and, the day after, trying to build a new world. All are under 20 years of age. The infant is 12 years old. The school where they learned this knowledge is in the hearts of their fathers, mothers and predecessors.The complete videos of each task, in their original languages, will appear later on the Enlace Zapatista web page.<a href="https://desinformemonos.org/la-herencia-de-la-lucha-por-la-vida-en-la-ninez-y-juventud-zapatistas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Original text published by Desinformémonos on April 15th, 2025.</a> <a href="https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2025/04/14/la-herencia-de-la-lucha-por-la-vida/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Communiqué and video published by the EZLN on April 14th, 2025.</a> Translation by Schools for Chiapas. <a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18559" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18559</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/chiapas/" target="_blank">#chiapas</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/ezln/" target="_blank">#ezln</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/mexico/" target="_blank">#mexico</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/north-america/" target="_blank">#northAmerica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/zapatista/" target="_blank">#zapatista</a>

SerpentⒶPlumes ⏚ :antifa:🏴‍☠️"Il y a quelques mois, à l’appel de l’EZLN, se tenait au Chiapas, la première session des « Rencontres internationales de Résistances et Rébellions – la Tempête et le jour d’Après » [...] la première étape d’une série de rencontres auxquelles les communautés zapatistes nous invitent afin de faire face ensemble à la tempête, de préparer le jour d’après et de développer le Commun."<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ezln" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ezln</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/communs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communs</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/chiapas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chiapas</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/mexique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mexique</a> <a href="https://lundi.am/Chiapas-Rencontres-internationales-de-Resistances-et-Rebellion" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lundi.am/Chiapas-Rencontres-internationales-de-Resistances-et-Rebellion</a>

abolitionmediaEZLN Invites Us to Think about “The New World We Want”San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. At the start of the ‘’(Rebel and Rebellious) Art: A Gathering of Art, Rebellion, and Resistance Toward the Day After’’ on Sunday, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) called on everyone to “think about the new world we want” because capitalism “was born badly and that is why it will die.”Sub-commander Moisés said at the opening of the encounter that “what we want is art for life,” while noting that “the capitalist system has accustomed us to it and that is why it dominates us, but after it dies, we will have nothing” if we do not prepare.“Its work was to destroy what was good, and since it will die, there will be no drones because there will be no batteries, and cars because there will be no gasoline,” he emphasized before more than a thousand people gathered in a recently renovated Zapatista space in the community of Winictón, municipality of Tenejapa, to welcome visitors. Before the official inauguration, dozens of uniformed and hooded Zapatistas marched, uniformly clanging their sticks, the only weapon they carried.“What brought us together here is art. Everything is art, except that in this place called Mexico and in the world today, there is an art created by those who dominate the world; that is, there is capitalist art, a capitalist system,” said Moisés.“We,” he added, “want to create another art, but it is for life. The art created by the capitalist system is lethal for the people of the countryside and the city, and also for nature. The capitalist system was born badly, and it will end badly. It was not born for life. All the poor of the world are witnesses. We are certain that what capitalism gives is not life. But they used the art of inhumane domination.”He added: “That’s what we’re calling you for, because we believe we can. We’re here at this gathering; we’re not here for a concert, because a concert is just a group representing something.”He reiterated that “the capitalist system was born badly, and because it’s bad, it’s going to die. What happened to us? We got used to the system, and that’s why they dominate us. After it dies, we’re going to have nothing. Their job was to destroy what was good before. And since it’s going to die, there won’t be drones because there won’t be batteries, and cars because there won’t be gasoline. Imagine everything else. So, how will life be?”He maintained that capitalism “has destroyed even nature, and there will be a reaction from nature,” so “we have to organize ourselves to see how we’re going to survive. We have to think about what will make us survive. That’s the art for which we’re here. That’s the task.”He added: “We Mexicans are witnesses. Those who call themselves the government have done nothing. It’s the same system in other countries, as they say, or peoples, as we say. So we all have to think about the new world we desire, not the one those in power want, as they say. Power lies with the people. What they say is not power. No. Power lies in us deciding, proposing, discussing, and it’s up to us to decide which of the many ideas is the best. That’s power. The people decide, not a few.”The sub-commander affirmed that “what we want is art for life; let’s think about what it will be like when there is no capitalism. One day without capitalism, what are we going to do? Because that’s what will happen. That’s why we are at this meeting: art to create a new life, art for life, because the art created by the capitalist system is no longer useful; we have begun the commons, and we are going to demonstrate in practice what that commons is, not in rhetoric.”He emphasized: “We’re going to do it because it’s a new art that can’t be found in any book or manual. We’re going to create it because the capitalist system has completely destroyed it. That’s why we’re here.”Original article by <a href="https://www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025/04/13/estados/convoca-el-eznl-a-pensar-en-el-nuevo-mundo-que-queremos?fbclid=IwY2xjawJpeClleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHt5k1I0d8Clw7LDk0VIlz69XsNGnBWZC0PIFSelSSa8Y1zPh_DXA84uoPFvu_aem_Sjf4-uTsP4xl1KRWi6eccg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elio Henríquez, La Jornada, April 13, 2025</a>. Translated by Schools for Chiapas.<a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18338" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18338</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/chiapas/" target="_blank">#chiapas</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/ezln/" target="_blank">#ezln</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/mexico/" target="_blank">#mexico</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/north-america/" target="_blank">#northAmerica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/zapatista/" target="_blank">#zapatista</a>

abolitionmediaPress Release from MODEVITE on the Palenque -San Cristóbal HighwayWe, the Tseltal, Tsotsil Indigenous peoples, and the mestizo community, express our opposition to the Palenque–San Cristóbal de las Casas Highway project in Chiapas, and to the construction of the first stretch from Palenque to Ocosingo, as it violates our right to self-determination, to our territory, to live in harmony with nature, and to a healthy, safe, and sustainable environment. We want to make it clear that from its inception, this highway has been a discriminatory, racist, and exclusionary project aimed against those of us who work the land and inhabit the territory.The Palenque–San Cristóbal de las Casas highway project is not new—it has been proposed since the administration of Chiapas Governor Juan Sabines Guerrero (2006–2012), in collaboration with the Federal Government. Although it has been justified under the guise of “development,” the highway has not been built thanks to the resistance of organized communities that emerged due to the lack of official information and transparency about the project.In this current administration, the present governor, Eduardo Ramírez, has revived this construction project, and in alliance with the federal government, it has now become one of the most significant projects in the country.Eduardo Ramírez stated to the media that he would not carry out the construction of the highway without first consulting the people and Indigenous communities. Therefore, on February 17, 2025, the “Guidelines for Conducting Public Consultations Related to Strategic Development Projects in the State of Chiapas” were published in the Official State Gazette, inventing a participation mechanism called a “Public Consultation.”The so-called “Public Consultation,” according to the government’s published Guidelines, is a mechanism through which people can decide whether or not they agree with the implementation of projects that the government classifies as “strategic development.” These Consultations are overseen by the governor himself and the General Secretariat of Government and Mediation, without including specialized authorities such as the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI).Thus, on March 23 of this year, a Public Consultation was held regarding the first stretch of construction—from Palenque to Ocosingo—in the municipalities of Chilón, Salto de Agua, Palenque, and Ocosingo. In this consultation, the authorities did not respect our right to access environmental, social, cultural, or project execution information. The communities were not informed in advance; the invitation was only shared via social media, failing to reach the many communities where there is no cell phone or telephone service. Furthermore, polling stations were only placed in municipal centers—between two and six per location. We witnessed serious irregularities, including people who were not from the municipality being allowed to vote, thus making decisions about land that is not theirs. The true owners of the land, and those most directly affected, were not taken into account.Once again, the bad government directly discriminates against the Indigenous peoples who inhabit this region. Racism and contempt for Indigenous communities persist, even after the constitutional reform to Article 2, which recognizes our right to consultation and self-determination.In response to the repeated violations of our human rights, today, March 31, 2025, we have filed two legal injunctions (amparos): one against the guidelines for conducting public consultations, because they are unconstitutional; and another for violating our right to a free, prior, informed, culturally appropriate, and good-faith consultation, which is part of our right to self-determination. We have also decided to exercise our right to petition by submitting requests for information to the Governor of the State, to the Head of the General Secretariat of Government and Mediation, and to the Secretariat of Infrastructure of the State of Chiapas. We demand that they make public the information on the environmental, cultural, and social impacts related to the construction of the Palenque–San Cristóbal highway and the stretch from Palenque to Ocosingo, so that we may freely and informedly decide the future of our territory, ensuring care and respect for our Mother Earth.Finally, we inform society in general that, based on our right to decide on our own development, the preservation of our cultural and ancestral heritage, our territory, health, equality, self-determination, and autonomy, we—the original peoples—have signed the Declaration of Peoples Free from Megaprojects, a document that represents our collective decision to resist the government’s imposition of a project that violates our rights and threatens the life of our communities.The land is not for sale—it is cared for and defended.Movement in Defense of Life and Territory (MODEVITE) Community Government of Chilón Communities organized for the defense of territory<a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18244" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18244</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/chiapas/" target="_blank">#chiapas</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/mexico/" target="_blank">#mexico</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/modevite/" target="_blank">#modevite</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/north-america/" target="_blank">#northAmerica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#resistance</a>

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