Chiapas

Indigenous People

EZLN Announces Changes to Autonomous Governing Structures

Sare Frabes - 8 November, 2023

In March of 2022, thousands of Zapatistas simultaneously mobilized in five municipalities of Chiapas to protest against war. Photo: Tercio Compas/ Enlace Zapatista On Sunday, November 5, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), via...

Mexico

10,000 Indigenous People Protest Organized Crime Violence in Chicomuselo, Chiapas

Santiago Navarro F - 17 October, 2023

The call for the protest was signed by the Unidad de Pueblos, a group of ejido commissioners for peace in Chicomuselo.

Mexico

In Chiapas, people denounce counterinsurgency, displacement and State collusion

Ñaní Pinto - 25 May, 2023

Programs like Sembrando Vida generate conflict and tension within communities

Mexico

Deforestation and Corruption, results of Sembrando Vida in Southern Mexico

Aldo Santiago - 19 April, 2021

Deforestation is one consequence of the implementation of Sembrando Vida, a program which seeks to reforest a million hectares in Mexico.

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Indigenous council in Michoacán denounces threats Against Spokesperson

Sare Frabes - 2 December, 2023

Pavel Uliánov Guzmán, spokesperson for the CSIM, on the microphone. On Monday, November 27, members of the Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán (CSIM) legally denounced...

Extractivism

Industrial Activity Expands in the Isthmus of Veracruz

Aldo Santiago - 30 November, 2023

Silica sand mine in Jáltipan. Photo: Aldo Santiago As part of the project Tracing Green Capital in Mesoamerica, Avispa Midia documented the vast deployment of...

Special

Chapín Abajo: History of a Community in Resistance Against Industrial Oil Palm Cultivation

Renata Bessi - 27 November, 2023

Indigenous Maya Q’eqchi’ people are recuperating their lands despite the military presence.