Anti-Dam Resistance Faces Death and Detention in Guerrero, Mexico
State-sponsored violence against anti-dam movement leaves a trail of blood and arbitrary arrests. […]
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Criminalizing Resistance: Militarization, Murder, and Extractivism in Chiapas
The struggle faced by mining communities in Chiapas illustrates the important nexus between global capitalist expansion, state investment in security initiatives, and increasing violence and human rights abuses. […]
Mexico’s Drug War and Neoliberal Energy Reforms Could Be Good for Business, Especially Mercenary Companies
What do Exxon Mobil, Halliburton, Blackwater and Mexico’s Zetas have in common? Providing “security” to expand capitalism’s frontiers. […]
Grassroots Action Confronts Impunity Three Years After Ayotzinapa
Official numbers suggest over 30,000 people have been disappeared in Mexico since 2006; victims groups say the actual total could be six to nine times higher. […]
Zapatistas and Indigenous Mexicans Create Parallel Government for Indigenous Autonomy
A coalition of indigenous Mexican communities has announced the creation its own, parallel government with the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). Dubbed the Indigenous Governing Council (CGI), the parallel government will aim to promote […]
Zapatista Communique: May the Earth Tremble at its Core
“…commemorating resistance and rebellion also means ratifying our decision to continue to live, constructing hope for a future that is only possible upon the ruins of capitalism. … This is the time of dignified rebellion, […]
Art for Revolution’s Sake: Voices from the EZLN’s CompArte Festival in Chiapas
It’s not everyday that a guerrilla movement hosts an alternative art festival, but that’s exactly what just happened in southern Mexican city of San Cristobal, in the state of Chiapas. From July 23 to 30, over a thousand artists from 45 countries flocked to the city’s outskirts to participate in CompArte for Humanity, a festival of art, poetry and music organized by the left-wing militant group, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
Sexual Torture of Women Prisoners is Growing Epidemic in Mexico’s War on Drugs
The majority of women polled in a recent Amnesty International study have said that they were sexually abused, beaten, electro-shocked, touched and groped during detention and interrogations. According to the unprecedented report”Surviving Death: Police and Military Torture of Women in Mexico,” a large majority of the women detained in Mexico’s prisons have been accused of organized crime or drug related charges and tortured during detention.
Mexico: Support for Families of Victims Pours in Following Massacre in Nochixtlan, Oaxaca
Support has come in from across Mexico’s social movements and civil society for the victims following the latest state repression against Oaxaca’s teachers and their supporters on June 19, 2016. That day, federal police opened fire on protesting teachers and supporters in Nochixtlan, Oaxaca, leaving 9 dead and well over 170 injured.
The Battle of Oaxaca
This is not just another of the many Oaxacan wars. It is part of a much more profound and extensive war that is by no means contained within the national territory itself. But the battle being waged in Oaxaca has a special meaning in that war, in the larger war.