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Art for Revolution's Sake: Voices from the EZLN's CompArte Festival in Chiapas
It's not everyday that a guerrilla movement hosts an alternative art festival, but that's exactly what just happened in southern Mexican city of San Cristobal, in the state of Chiapas. From July 17 to 30, over a thousand artists from 45 countries flocked to the city's outskirts to participate in CompArte for Humanity, a festival of art, poetry and music organized by the left-wing militant group,… → Read More
Sexual Torture of Women Prisoners is Growing Epidemic in Mexico’s War on Drugs
The majority of women polled in a recent Amnesty International study have said that they were sexually abused, beaten, electro-shocked, touched and groped during detention and interrogations. According to the unprecedented report “Surviving Death: Police and Military Torture of Women in Mexico,” a large majority of the women detained in Mexico’s prisons have been accused of organized crime or… → Read More
Mexico: Support for Families of Victims Pours in Following Massacre in Nochixtlan, Oaxaca
Support has come in from across Mexico’s social movements and civil society for the victims following the latest state repression against Oaxaca’s teachers and their supporters on June 19, 2016. That day, federal police opened fire on protesting teachers and supporters in Nochixtlan, Oaxaca, leaving 9 dead and well over 170 injured. This support includes direct aid from the National Coordinator… → Read More
The Battle of Oaxaca
This is not just another of the many Oaxacan wars. It is part of a much more profound and extensive war that is by no means contained within the national territory itself. But the battle being waged in Oaxaca has a special meaning in that war, in the larger war. It is a battle long overdue. In Oaxaca people knew that many aspects of the ongoing confrontation were being postponed due to the… → Read More
From Within the Storm: National Indigenous Congress and Zapatista Communique on Oaxaca Teacher Protests
Joint Communique from the National Indigenous Congress and the EZLN on the cowardly police attack against the National Coordinating Committee of Education Workers and the indigenous community of Nochixtlán, Oaxaca. June 20, 2016 To the People of Mexico: To the peoples of the World: Faced with the cowardly repressive attack suffered by the teachers and the community in Nochixtlán, Oaxaca—in which… → Read More
Brazil’s Crisis and the New Right
Photo: Pro-impeachment protests in Brazil. The impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff resulted from the conjunction of three factors: the rupture of the alliance with business owners, the rise of a new militant right, and the PT’s serious mistakes after abandoning the streets. What remains is a wounded society and an extractive model that went unquestioned by the left and… → Read More
Rural Communities' Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court
The long-running struggle of rural communities in Guatemala against the United States-based mining firm Kappes, Cassiday, and Associates (KCA) continues in Guatemala’s national courts. A recent investigation by the Guatemalan public ministry could come with criminal charges for executives of the controversial gold mine. On May 27, the Guatemalan Public Ministry opened a criminal case against… → Read More