Frayba calls for the release of Manuel Gómez Vázquez after two years and three months of arbitrary detention. Deprived of his freedom, the young man is, in fact being held prisoner for being a Zapatista.
Schools for Chiapas begins preparatory training for civil observers volunteering with the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Center for Human Rights (Frayba) this week. One of the volunteering options available is at a migrant center at Salto El Agua here in Chiapas. In the first of two articles, we share with our readers some interesting facts and figures about migration in the state. If you are interested in volunteering through us at the migrant center, please visit our website at https://schoolsforchiapas.org/become-a-human-rights-observer/
Magdalena Gómez challenges the agencies of the State, the bureacracies and the self-satisfied liberal class in their rhetoric of democratic pluralism to ask: “And you, what have you done while the indigenous peoples were building autonomy?”
The Language Center at Oventic Caracol in Chiapas is now offering Spanish and Tsotsil classes. If you would like to learn either or both of these languages and have the opportunity to live together with Zapatistas, this is an opportunity not to be missed.
