Chiapas Today
Raúl Romero shares a brief history of militarization in Mexico and the evolution of its current expressions in paramilitary groups and organized crime in Chiapas.
Raúl Romero shares a brief history of militarization in Mexico and the evolution of its current expressions in paramilitary groups and organized crime in Chiapas.
Jessica Xantomila Raúl Romero, sociologist and academic at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), denounced that he has become the victim of a campaign on Twitter, in which he has even received death threats, for visiblizing and denouncing the activism of neo-fascist groups in the country. These acts are in addition to the physical aggression suffered last Friday by cultural promoter Víctor García Zapata by a recognized member of these movements. In an interview, Romero, a contributor to La Jornada, explained that due to the threats against him, he filed a complaint with the Protection Mechanism for Human Rights
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We are witnessing an exercise of political imagination, of creative resistance, of autonomy, of ruling by obeying. A process that is not exempt from contradictions, but one that does not stop betting on the construction of an alternative beyond capitalism. Long live the caracoles.
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In a follow up to his earlier piece, Raúl Romero sketches just a few examples among so many in Mexico: Cartography of Hope and Resistance. “Moved by different causes, these organizations are building pockets of resistance and sometimes even zones free from dispossession and organized crime, and although they are not exempt from harassment and persecution by the real and formal powers, they continue to build bridges and construct a cartography of hope.”
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