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
Why We Oppose the Mayan Train READ MORE »
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 »
“Faced with these injustices, we ask the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to visit our community and our comrade Cristóbal Santiz Jiménez, held in prison by the state.”
The Mexican State has not Complied with IACHR Recommendations in Aldama READ MORE »
In Mexico, access to drinking water is a human right enshrined in the Constitution, but in fact it has all the appearance of a privilege from which millions of people are excluded.
Water: An Ongoing Crisis READ MORE »
