Instead of protecting them [the communities], the current government, which continuously proclaims to be on the side of the poor, without hesitation took the side of capital, when the communities decided to defend what belongs to them. The episode helps to dissolve the illusion for those who thought that this government was on their side, or that it brought justice to the poor.
by Luis Hernández Navarro As if it were the work of the devil looking to surface from the depths of hell, an enormous hole opened up in the farmlands of Santa MarÃa Zacatepec, Puebla. With an unstoppable appetite, the hole grew day after day. It began on May 29, 2021, with a diameter of 5 meters. In less than a day, it reached 30. Soon after it got to 100 meters. Now it is nearly 130 meters wide and 30 meters deep. In its voracity, the sinkhole swallowed crops and the house of the Sánchez Xalamiahua family, it cracked the …
by Gilberto López y Rivas
“If anthropology as a science emerged closely linked with colonialism and efforts to impose capitalism, in Mexico, the anthropological discipline has developed in its relationship with State indigenism.”
Followers of the Self-Proclaimed Mayor of Oxchuc Attack Opponents by Elio HenrÃquez San Cristóbal De La Casas, Chiapas – Followers of the self-proclaimed mayor of Oxchuc, Hugo Gómez Sántiz, fired shots outside a school in the urban zone, at the end of a community assembly yesterday afternoon in which some 200 people participated. There were no injuries, but some people leaving the school were beaten, the president of the Community Front for the Defense of the Self-Determination of the People, Óscar Gómez López reported. Meanwhile, unofficial sources indicated that both groups exchanged bullets and at least four houses were set …
by Magdalena Gómez To recount, as a backdrop: February 16th of 1996 in San Andrés Sakamch’en, Chiapas, a document that was called the Accords of San Andrés on Indigenous Rights and Culture, was signed by the delegation of the Mexican federal government as well as the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Its contents expressed the commitment to push a constitutional reform that would recognize and guarantee indigenous rights. The document was the result of the first roundtable, which in the end turned out to be the only one, and it was developed in the framework of the process established in …
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