Unrest Continues in Oxchuc

Followers of the Self-Proclaimed Mayor of Oxchuc Attack Opponents by Elio Henríquez 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 […]

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Disagreement Between the Mexican State and the Indigenous Peoples: 26 years

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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