When in 2001 the Mexican State betrayed the San Andres accords, an agreement with the originary peoples of the country, it unleashed in its wake a story of many resistances.
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Hermann Bellinhausen honors 29 years of Zapatista autonomy, and the indigenous organization that has resisted and continued building during as many years of constant siege. Viva el EZLN!
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The Zapatista assertion that we should not expect anything from those above is confirmed. Only the anti-capitalist, anti-racist and anti-patriarchal resistance of the peoples, coming from the territories, can make the just demands for autonomy and self-determination a reality.
Simulations, Paradoxes and Realities in Matters of Indigenous Rights READ MORE »
by Magdalena Gómez To recount, as a backdrop: February 16th of 1996 in San Andrés Sakamch’en, Chiapas, a document that was called the Accords of San Andrés on Indigenous Rights and Culture, was signed by the delegation of the Mexican federal government as well as the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Its contents expressed the commitment to push a constitutional reform that would recognize and guarantee indigenous rights. The document was the result of the first roundtable, which in the end turned out to be the only one, and it was developed in the framework of the process established in
Disagreement Between the Mexican State and the Indigenous Peoples: 26 years READ MORE »
