Mexico: A Cartography of War
From missing persons to megaprojects, Raúl Romero includes us in a bleak mapping of the ills plaguing Mexico. Our next task, is mapping the Resistances.
War
Narco Governments and Organized Crime Add to the Repression in Chiapas
Hermann Bellinghausen The hegemony of the PRI, assumed a given [in politics] for decades in Chiapas, was broken in one night on the New Year of 1994. The reality was much more porous, it turned out that the complexity of the indigenous peoples came from deep within, having great diversity and being marked by important historical tensions that, after the visibility gained in the political agenda, came to be of national interest. Great and terrible days followed in the next decade. Chiapas became a rehearsal for the future on two opposing fronts. The organized indigenous people in rebellion and resistance, …
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Chiapas on the Brink of Civil War
Provoked by the recent kidnapping of two and murder of one member off the EZLN, SupGaleano warns of the impending crisis created by the actions and inaction of the government of the State of Chiapas under Rutilio Escandón.
4T Counterinsurgency
By Raúl Zibechi Counterinsurgency strategies are flexible, adapting to every time and place, to each sector of the population to be fought. They behave differently in urban and rural areas, facing armed or peaceful actors, in every case deploying appropriate devices for each situation. Counterinsurgency strategies are many, as has been demonstrated over the last century in Latin America. They blend massacres and social programs, ferocious dictatorships that in one moment promote democratic openings, that are then reduced to calling elections. Modern counterinsurgency has only one objective: to crush those that are different, dispossess them of their territories, rebuild them …
The War of Attrition Against the Zapatista Communities
Sharing testimonies from the Solidarity Caravans organized by Ajmaq Network of Resistance and Rebllion, Raul Zibechi reports on the ongoing war of attrition against Zapatista communities in Moisés Gandhi and Nuevo San Gregorio.