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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The latest statement from Las Abejas Civil Society Organization calls on he IACHR to urgently publish its findings on the 1997 massacre. Schools for Chiapas is currently recruiting human rights observers to volunteer in Acteal. Please visit our website for more information.
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”The Zapatista and Palestinian struggle have very significant echoes of common resistance. The first of them is the importance and centrality of land for both movements, the second is dispossession as a shared form of oppression and finally, a third echo is the importance of memory and history to imagine other futures.”
“We are made to believe that those of us who do not want megaprojects, that we do not want progress, that we are people who are against development, that we are very selfish people who do not want the country to progress. It is a discourse that is used to discredit us, to make us look like backward people, who have no ambitions, who are satisfied and do not want to get out of poverty.”
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