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Crime Rules Indigenous Areas of Chiapas, says Women’s Assembly

The assembly of the Women’s Movement for the Defense of Mother Earth and Our Territories reaffirmed its decision to articulate peoples, networks, collectives of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, the National Indigenous Congress and the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle against the imposition of megaprojects, violence, drug trafficking, prostitution and alcoholism.

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Sowing Life? Threats to mountain peasant Life

By Silvia Ribeiro Like in many other progressive governments (yes, like that without quotations, because precisely a central problem is the industrial-capitalist concept of progress) the government of  Lopez Obrador in México has focused primarily on favoring industrial development, including industrial agriculture, and infrastructure projects that favor exports, like the Mayan Train and the Trans-isthmic Corredor of the Isthmus de Tehuantepec. The official argument is that these projects will generate employment and economic growth. But this directly and principally benefits the large national and transnational companies that will see  their profits increase significantly, in many cases, with workers subsidized by

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“Sowing Life” serves dispossession just like the Mayan Train and the Trans-Isthmus Corridor, research indicates.

“Trifecta designed for the dispossession and subjugation of territory”: CECCAM By the editorial office at La Coperacha The program Sembrando Vida or “Sowing Life,” together with the TransIsthmus Corredor and the Mayan Train, “can be considered a trifecta designed for the plunder and subjugation of territory”, an investigation about the impacts of said programs and megaprojects points out. The 40-page document, prepared by Daniel Sandoval Vázquez and presented by the Center for Studies for Change in the Mexican Countryside (CECCAM), indicates that these projects are closely linked to each other. With regard to the Mayan Train and the Trans-Isthmus Corridor,

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