We call on national and international solidarity to sign this urgent action available at www.frayba.org.mx and write to the Mexican authorities to commit to implement security measures for the exercise of the right to defend human rights.
Defenders of human rights of the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Center for Human Rights(Frayba), Lázaro Sánchez Gutiérrez and Pictórico Galvez Pérez were freed in the early morning of Wednesday, after being held hostage for more than 40 hours.
The virus has stopped the lives of millions of people throughout the world, but not of capitalism. Nor of those who resist it. The ship sails on.
Representatives of Zoque, Tseltal, and Tzotzil agrarian centers of Chiapas rejected megaprojects inside of their territories, this in the context of the “Third Gathering of the Popular Ejidal and Communal School,” on account of the fact that capitalism, transnational companies and governments continue to promote mechanisms to deepen the extractive model.
From the Editorial Desk at La Jornada. The Morena party nominated former PRI member Jorge Constantino Kánter for municipal president of Comitán, Chiapas. He is one of the most belligerent leaders of the cattlemen and ranchers opposed the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) in 1994 and indigenous populations, against which he headed violent operations. Constantino Kánter was the mayor of Comitán during the 2005-2007 term for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI) from which he was expelled a little after finishing his term. He was accused of supporting the Party of the Democratic …
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