Chiapas Farmers Denounce Illegal Acts by Technicians of Sembrando Vida
More abuses are revealed about the 4T’s star reforestation problem, Sembrando Vida (also featured in the Cartography of War).
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Narco Governments and Organized Crime Add to the Repression in Chiapas
Hermann Bellinghausen The hegemony of the PRI, assumed a given [in politics] for decades in Chiapas, was broken in one night on the New Year of 1994. The reality was much more porous, it turned out that the complexity of the indigenous peoples came from deep within, having great diversity and being marked by important historical tensions that, after the visibility gained in the political agenda, came to be of national interest. Great and terrible days followed in the next decade. Chiapas became a rehearsal for the future on two opposing fronts. The organized indigenous people in rebellion and resistance, …
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Joint Pronouncement: Mexican Government is Negligent and Permissive of Violence Toward the Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas.
Individuals, collectives and organizations hold omissive and permissive governments accountable for the assassination of Simón Pedro Pérez López and the ongoing state of terror in the Altos of Chiapas.
A Repressor of Indigenous People, the Morena Candidate for Mayor of Comitán
From the Editorial Desk at La Jornada. The Morena party nominated former PRI member Jorge Constantino Kánter for municipal president of Comitán, Chiapas. He is one of the most belligerent leaders of the cattlemen and ranchers opposed the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) in 1994 and indigenous populations, against which he headed violent operations. Constantino Kánter was the mayor of Comitán during the 2005-2007 term for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI) from which he was expelled a little after finishing his term. He was accused of supporting the Party of the Democratic …
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Deforestation and Corruption, Results of Sembrando Vida in Southern Mexico
“Deforestation, loss of biodiversity, clientelism and corruption are just some of the consequences of the implementation of Sembrando Vida, the federal government’s most ambitious environmental program, which seeks to reforest a million hectares of deteriorated lands throughout Mexico.”