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CNI Communiqué: In the Midst of Electoral Farce, the Capitalist War against the Peoples

As violence ravages Mexico in the weeks before the elections, the CNI gives its view of the ‘’electoral farce.’’ ‘’ This June 2nd, a “democracy” is not in dispute, much less a leftist one. What is really in dispute is an economic and political power that seeks to sustain itself with militarization, with impunity, and with the accumulation of wealth in the hands of many at the service of large transnational corporations. Their plan is to sustain this “Fourth Transformation” with a CAPITALIST WAR against indigenous peoples and communities.’’

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Tilapa: Lessons from the Me’phaa People on Territorial Protection against Organized Crime

Despite the omnipresence and omnipotence of organized crime in Mexican society, indigenous peoples are organizing to confront its power. After years of organizing and resisting mining companies in their territories, the Me’Phaa people of La Montaña region of Guerrero are now confronting the scourge of drugs in their community.

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SAN ANDRÉS ACCORDS FORGOTTEN

“If the communes or agrarian communities and ejidos of almost the entire country, but especially in the deep south, were not colored by revolts and stories that paid with blood for Article 27 ….I would say without reservation that I fully accept the proposal of common and non-property…However, the historical-epistemic root of indigenous agrarian communality, particularly in Mexico, differs correlatively from the common…”

Respectfully raising questions of the common and non-property, the author draws on the history and complexity of the struggles that culminated in the Accords of San Andrés.

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