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    Ayotzinapa, at the Edge of the Abyss

    Tomorrow, September 26th, 2022 marks the 8-year anniversary of the barbaric mass-disappeance and murder of 43 normalistas (student teachers) who were traveling to Mexico City from their school in Iguala, Guerrero. Though the crime was dismissed by the previous administration as a tragic incident perpetrated by the drug gang, Guerreros Unidos, just over a month ago, the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice published a report indicating that the whole event was a “crime of the state.”

    Article translated from Luis Hernández Navarro, in La Jornada.

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    Autonomy and Dignity Don’t Depend On Numbers

    The support bases of the EZLN in Nuevo San Gregorio showed us that resistance is not for a day or a year. It is a way of living life. It is not a struggle to obtain something material, or to obtain personal or collective advantages. Even less for immediate results. The struggle is to continue being peoples who are different from hegemonic capitalism. And for dignity.

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    Militarization Increases Violence and Perpetuates Violations of Human Rights and Territories of the Peoples – Frayba

    Despite election promises to remove the Armed Forces from the streets and from roles in public security and the fight against organized crime, this term of office of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has witnessed continued militarization. In his ongoing love affair with the military, AMLO has given control of railways, ports and airports to the Armed Forces.

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    Climate Colonialism

    Silvia Ribeiro elaborates on the Great Green Swindle and the ways that Mexico’s Secretary of the Environment (Semarnat), is increasingly promoting Climate Colonialism.

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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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