Potential progress is made as the murder case of Samir Flores is turned over to a Special Prosecutor’s Office to Crimes Against Freedom of Expression. Only time will tell.
In a complicated national and international scenario, the originary peoples organized in the CNI continue weaving, building horizons, insisting on the global and anti-capitalist character of the struggle. Accustomed to resisting, the people walk knowing that the path is made by walking.
Amilcingo gets ready to memorialize community leader, land defender, and teacher, Samir Flores on the fourth anniversary of his assassination, February 19th. Daliri Oropeza speaks with members of the FDPDTA as the communities continue his struggle against the Morelos Integral Project.
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.”
“The shades of regional history are like windows to peek out on the tragedy of the Republic; the project of Zapata converted into a national project. Anenecuilco, Xochicalco and Amilcingo are all communities in the state of Morelos that sum up the dreams, at once modest and profound, of men of the countryside, and the betrayals they have been subjected to, far beyond Morelos.”
