Postcards from the War
In a first installment, Raúl Romero looks at the indicators in assessing the context of a multi-level, multi-actor war in Mexico…
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In Mexico, Mining Law Reform is “Half-Baked.”
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador published, on May 8th in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), the reforms to the Mining, National Waters, Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection, and Prevention and Integral Waste Management Laws, approved on April 28 by the Plenary of the Senate of the Republic.
While the changes were celebrated by many environmental activists and organizations, the agrarian lawyer who is part of the legal team of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), Carlos González, classified the reforms as “half-baked.”
Torture, Forced Displacement, Arbitrary Arrests and Violations of Right to Land: The Cocktail of Violence that Beseiges Chiapas
In this article from El País, Alejandro Santos Cid analyses the latest report from the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Center for Human Rights and pulls together the threads that link the megaprojects of the Mexican government, human rights abuses, migration, militarization and the surge in organized crime in Chiapas. He does so in the context of the recent Sur Resiste caravan and the resistance of the Zapatista communities and the National Indigenous Congress to the death projects.
“The Land is Not For Sale”: Defenders in the Face of the Mis-named Mayan Train
Avispa Midia interviews Mayan land defenders of the CNI of their experience with the mis-named megaproject, the Mayan Train.
International Tribunal Accuses the Mexican State of violating Human Rights with the Mayan Train
The International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature met in Valladolid, Yucatán this weekend for a hearing on the impacts of the Mayan Train – it holds the Mexican State responsible for the violation of individual and collective human rights, the rights of nature and the biocultural rights of the Mayan people, and demands immediate suspension of the project.