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(Avispa) Organizations Denounce Criminalization of Imprisoned Zapatista in Chiapas

José Díaz Gómez, Indigenous Ch’ol, support base of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), has been imprisoned and accused of violent robbery. The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (FRAYBA) pointed out that Díaz, imprisoned in CERSS No. 17, “El Bambú”, in the municipality of Catazajá, in the north of Chiapas, is the victim of criminalization accused of a crime that hasn’t been substantiated.

FRAYBA has documented the human rights violations carried out by Chiapas state police during José Díaz’s detention: executing an illegal and arbitrary detention; engaging in torture; engaging in cruel, inhumane, and degrading conduct; forced disappearance; and holding someone incommunicado.

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Armed attack on Zapatista coffee cooperative in Mexico

European and Mexican laws promote war in Chiapas

source (german written): https://www.cafe-libertad.de/bewaffneter-angriff-auf-zapatistische-kooperative

The Zapatista coffee cooperative Yochin Tayel Kinal reported to us on the night of May 1st that their warehouse in Altamirano, Chiapas, had been attacked by paramilitaries in the previous days. The front door of the warehouse, where green coffee is also processed, was broken down and shots were fired inside. The compas were able to take cover behind coffee sacks and flee. The armed attack on the harvest of small farmers and a communal production facility of the indigenous community is a further expression of the increasing escalation in southern Mexico. This makes solidarity and direct support for the new Zapatista self-government structures and autonomy all the more important

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INFORMATION STATEMENT: towards the Global Action EL SUR RESISTE on October 12, 2023

INFORMATION STATEMENT: towards the Global Action EL SUR RESISTE on October 12, 2023

(source: https://www.elsurresiste.org/en/posts/information-statement-towards-the-global-action-el-sur-resiste-on-october-12-2023 )

More than two thousand years ago, the war between empires for the acquisition of land, natural resources, and geostrategic trade sites, was based on the conquest of territories and the creation of borders. This was always done at the expense of the destruction of cultures and the blood of indigenous peoples.

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