“The information presented here is just the tip of the iceberg of attacks on human rights defenders. It is only a part of the violence that is visible, but beneath this iceberg lies a network of power relations and domination, cultural and structural violence, racism and discrimination, poverty and exclusion, in short, a complex map of violence that plagues the country.“
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At a meeting in Chiapas, collectives that more than 115,000 people are missing in Mexico, more than 72,000 bodies and human remains are unidentified in forensic medical services, and the State’s inability to have institutions to register cases of missing persons of other nationalities.
As another October 12th comes and goes, Spanish colonialism continues on the continent as does the neocolonialism of Latin American governments. So too does the resistance of the indigenous peoples.
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The rhetoric of López Obrador, and the incoming Sheinbaum administration around the struggles and the rights of indigenous peoples has adapted to the times, but the author points out the lip-service and deception that have only worsened the relation between the State and indigenous peoples.
“They denounced in the letter that they made public, that members of the Lacandon community are already part of organized crime groups, “Lacandon brothers have unfortunately allied themselves with criminals, endangering our rights as an ancestral indigenous people, placing our territories at the service of these organizations and controlling all families,” and those who oppose are threatened, and in some cases, disappeared, they said.”
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