We are in a transition toward something that we don’t know, that could be dramatic, but that has more the form of decomposition than of orderly transit. As Immanuel Wallerstein said: of controlled transitions are born new oppressions. That is why we should lose our fear of the collapse of the current system, which could be anarchical, but not necessarily disastrous.*
When War Will No Longer Save the System READ MORE »
it’s been 3 years.. always living with gunfire, we go out to work our milpa and we are always afraid, because they run us out with bullets. It’s been 4 years and still… Who is going to solve the problem? The damn government does nothing, do they want us to die, or what?”
Mexican Government Foments Counterinsurgency Against EZLN Territories READ MORE »
by Isaín Mandujano
One year after the IACHR granted precautionary measures to 12 Aldama communities, the Mexican State has not guaranteed peace and security in the territory.
The IACHR Will Visit 22 Indigenous Chiapas Communities, Victims of Violence READ MORE »
by Gilberto López y Rivas On April 19, a letter entitled “Why We Oppose the Mayan Train” was delivered to the President of Mexico, signed by more than 300 researchers from various disciplines, who describe themselves like this: “We are not pseudo-scientists, we are not conservatives, we are not adversaries. We are academics with field and desk work, who have a deep commitment to the good of Mexico, and we have demonstrated this for decades, throughout which time we have pointed out the problems caused by government programs, corporate projects, and unsustainable initiatives of any origin (https://geopolitica.iiec.unam.mx/node/1302). It reminds the president
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Whitewashing the past, de-radicalizing it, polishing the sharpest edges of its emancipatory episodes has been a recurrent obsession of our modernizing elites. But, despite the endless repression agains rural normal schools and their students, as Luis Hernández Navarro points out, they are not going away.
One Hundred Years of Normal Schools READ MORE »
