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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Forced Disappearance
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After nearly 25 years of impunity, the family of disappeared Zapatista Antonio González Mendez and Frayba bring a historical case against the Mexican state for the context of counterinsurgency that still reigns terror today. As Magdalena Gomez points out, it is not just about the case of one person, but about the essential precedent of recognizing the truth of the State's role in these crimes.
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‘Black Bloc’, the Radical Left (and the ghost of violence) in the Lopez Obrador Era
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A look at the radical left and the current state of the anarchist movement in Mexico during the Lopez Obrador government through the lens of Carlos Illades and Rafael Mondragón. The article from El País newspaper follows the recent publication of 'Radical Lefts in Mexico: Anarchisms and Postmodern Nihilisms'.¨Who shapes politics to the left of the left? What are their demands? Where do they come from? What is their project? The essay is an approach to the most rebellious social movements with hardly any precedents in Mexico. Also a debate, of course, about their practices and forms of action, where the use or rejection of violence is constantly underlying, that old ghost that has haunted the global left since its genesis.¨
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Who Do the Paramilitaries Serve in Chiapas?
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With the expansion of criminal corporations throughout the country, organized crime armed groups carry out operations equal to and expanding those of the paramilitaries, but at the service of a kind of parallel state that converges and intertwines with the formal state. The paramilitaries of the formal State and the armed groups of organized crime come to coincide and coordinate in their tasks of territorial control and expansion of criminal or extractive economies.
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Identifying, in the confusing panorama of Chiapas, who the paramilitary groups serve and what their interests are is key to finding those responsible for years of war and those who today invoke it.
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Apologists for the State apparatus often point to its achievements while downplaying the collateral damages of dispossession and violence. Raúl Zibechi gives a few examples to make the point that States (in the service of Capital) are incapable of wielding solutions or justice in the face of the crises of our times.
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