An analysis by Gilberto López y Rivas in La Jornada of the recent Frayba report, ‘‘Chiapas, A Disaster’’. The report (in Spanish) can be found in our library at Sendas in San Cristobal de Las Casas or our library here.
https://schoolsforchiapas.org/library/chiapas-un-desastre/
“It is not a military campaign but the largest military deployment in history” (https://bit.ly/38MWiBk), which is concentrated around those who are rehearsing autonomous societal forms such as the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) and modes of organizational resistance through the National Indigenous Congress (Congreso Nacional Indígena)…
Raúl Zibechi warns that the wars of dispossession against the peoples have only just begun. How do we face the storm?
What “we see today is that an enormous storm is coming, that it is already underway, an infernal earthquake upon us. We cannot build material barriers against it (…) we can unite and give our arms and give ourselves to life and to mother earth, with the hope that she will show us the way.”
“For those who consider the terms imperialism and colonialism to be outmoded, demodé, and prefer to use euphemisms such as neoliberal globalization or new world order….” we recommend you take a look at this resource shared by Gilberto López y Rivas. Tell your friends.
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.
