”In the few weeks of the new year, fierce offensives are being carried out against the Venezuelan, Iranian, and Kurdish peoples, in an escalation as rapid as it is devastating. Even within the United States, President Trump seems prepared to send 1,500 troops to quell the Minneapolis protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportations, which resulted in the death of a woman days earlier.”
In an interview with the Mexican anthropologist and communicator, Francisco De Parres Gómez, the attacks against Zapatismo are analyzed not as isolated events, but as key cogs in the deployment of megaprojects and the dispute for territorial control, in what he calls a “Triangle of dispossession”, between state violence, permissiveness of organized crime and gradual weakening of the community fabric: faced with this, the communities resist through the arts linked to politics.
‘’The White House tries to control the narrative, through its media strategy, that it has absolute control of the country, but every day it becomes clear that this is false.’’
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”They triumph beyond death because they live. Autonomy, self-determination, the possibilities of care, and the creative defense of the commons, as the Maya of Guatemala and the Zapatistas of Chiapas uphold today. ”
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“There is nothing better than facing reality head-on, without detours or excuses, looking the monster in the face to decide the paths of grassroots movements and peoples willing to resist.
If we do this, we conclude that the empire acts in a very similar way to drug cartels: threatening, buying off, and cowardly attacking to seize the collective assets of communities and peoples.”
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