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CNI: OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY MOISES GANDHI YOU ARE NOT ALONE

The war that has been declared against the native peoples, guardians of mother earth, obliges us to act in an organized manner in defense of life. To the peoples and governments of the world To the media To the National and International Sexta To the human rights organizations We, the indigenous peoples of the National Indigenous Congress, repudiate the cowardly attack that the Regional Organization of Coffee Growers of Ocosingo (ORCAO) carried out against support bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, in the autonomous community of Moisés Gandhi, in Ocosingo, Chiapas, during which our comrade Gilberto López Sántiz […]

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URGENT ACTION: Zapatista Support Base Wounded In Attack on Moises y Gandhi

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On the night of May 22, 2023, Gilberto López Sántiz, an indigenous Tseltal member of the Support Bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (BAEZLN) was the victim of an armed attack that put his life at serious risk. He received a bullet wound to the left side at chest level. Hours earlier, the Moisés y Gandhi Autonomous Community, Lucio Cabañas Autonomous Municipality (Ocosingo, Chiapas) reported the armed attack perpetrated by members of the Regional Organization of Coffee Growers of Ocosingo (ORCAO).

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The Wanderings of Orcao

by Raúl Romero For more than 20 years, the Regional Organization of Coffee Growers of Ocosingo (Orcao) has constantly attacked the EZLN  bases of support communities. In the past three years, the attacks have intensified. The aggressions have been varied: insults, amenazas, beatings, kidnappings, theft, shootings, fires, torture, dispossession of lands, forced displacement… The denunciations by collectives in solidarity with the Zapatista communities are numerous. Human rights organizations have documented the incidents. Journalists and the communication media have covered the facts. Individuals in the academic and artistic worlds have signed letters and appeals for the situation to to be addressed.

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