Yasmín Guadalupe Hernández Núñez, legal counselor of the Digna Ochoa Human Rights Center in Tonalá, Costal Zone of Chiapas, speaks of the government’s harrassment against the center’s director Nataniel Hernández and his family, the criminalization of human rights activists in the country, and the National and Internacional Campaign agaisnt Judicial Harrassment and Criminalization of Human Rights Defenders and Social Activists in México.

Nuevo Juan de Grijalva is the dearest project of the Chiapas Government and promoted as the first sustainable rural city of the world and the solution to poverty. However, since it was inaugurated its residents have denounced that there are no jobs, the “sustainable” projects don’t work, electricity rates are exorbitant, the clinic doesn’t work, and, in general, they live a desperate situation. The city was built after a supposedly natural accident that destroyed homes and lands when the Grijalva river burst its bank. The Chiapas government committed to compensate the people for the damages to their lands and homes, but it never did. Now a large work is underway by the Federal Electric Commission, which will affect large extensions of land. Once again, the government committed to idemnify the residents for the destruction of their lands, but it never did. Without other alternatives, the residents of Nuevo Juan de Grijalva organized a demonstration. Instead of complying with its promises, the government’s answer was the illegal detention of of the demonstrators, with an outburst of arbitrariness and injustice typical of the authoritarian and arrogant ways of the governor Juan Sabines Guerrero. After a long struggle and the intervention of human rights organizations and even the United Nations, the prisoners were freed. In a visit with the Free Media Network of Chiapas, we spoke with some of them, who shared with us their experience.

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Presentation of the book
Bajo la sombra del guamúchil:
Historias de vida de mujeres indígenas y campesinas en prisión
Cideci-Unitierra, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, 7 July 2011.

The book tells the stories of indigenous and mestizo women (almosta all of them of rural origin) prisoners at Cereso Morelos, where 206 women and 15 children have been isolated from society by a legal system that views punishment and imprisonment as a solution in the face of the failure of a social model, which through exclusion and poverty has contributed to produce criminality. These publications (book and video) attempt to aproximate us to such experiences of inequity through the voices and writings of nine prisoners, within the context of the “Life Stories” workshop.

Introduction – Rosalva Aída Hernández (co-author):(Descarga aquí)  

Commentaries – Gabriela Patishtán (Voces Inocentes), Mercedes Oliveira, Xóchtil Leyva:(Descarga aquí)  

Questions and answers:(Descarga aquí)  

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On 2 July 2011, in the context of the Proceso magazine tetralogy organized in San Cristóbal de Las Casas by RompeVientos TV and the Centro Cultural TierrAdentro, the journalists from Proceso magazine José Gil Olmos and Marcela Turati gave a journalism workshop to members of several free media collectives.

José Gil (50 min):(Descarga aquí)  

Marcela Turati (1 hr):(Descarga aquí)  

Open dialog (1:23 hr):(Descarga aquí)  

This July 2, 2011, day of the march against violence against women in San Cristóbal de Las Casas,the activist Concepción Avendaño Villafuerte received a citation to appear at the General Attorney’s office (PGR) this next July 5. The compañera fears for her freedom and asks that we remain attentive and calls for solidarity.(Descarga aquí)  

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Cuarta y última parte de la tetralogía PROCESO: José Gil Olmos en el Centro Cultural TierrAdentro, San Cristóbal de Las Casas.

El cuarto y último eslabón de la tetralogía corresponde al reportero José Gil Olmos, designado por PROCESO para la cobertura del Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad, y autor de los libros “Los brujos del poder” 1 y 2 y “La santa muerte”.

José Gil compartió anoche su experiencia y reflexión en la cobertura de las caravanas a la ciudad de México y a Ciudad Juárez, realizadas en el marco del movimiento que encabeza Javier Sicilia, habló sobre los retos y perspectivas, riesgos y debilidades, aportes y fortalezas de ese fenómeno social surgido del dolor y el clamor de justicia de las víctimas de la guerra de Calderón.

El reportero habló también sobre sus libros “Los brujos del poder: el ocultismo en la política mexicana” 1 y 2, que documentan los casos de importantes políticos mexicanos y de otros países que han recurrido a chamanes, hechiceros, espiritistas y brujos para alcanzar, expandir o conservar el poder, y para tomar decisiones que afectan a la sociedad en su conjunto.

Presentación y video(Descarga aquí)  

Palabras de José Gil(Descarga aquí)  

Diálogo con el público(Descarga aquí)  

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Third part of the tetralogy of the Proceso Magazine organized by Centro Cultural TierrAdentro and Rompeviento TV in San Cristóbal de Las Casas.

Marcela Turati, presented her book “Cross Fire”, where she gives voice to the victims of Calderon’s war. Children, elders, women, and men who are suddenly orphans, widwos, disappeared, or displaced, and sentenced by the official discourse which categorizes them as “collateral damage” or turns them into suspects of their own disgrace.

Presentation (4:25 min):(Descarga aquí)  

Brief words by Marcela Turati on her book Fuego cruzado (11:45 min):(Descarga aquí)  

Dialogue with the audience (1:25 hr):(Descarga aquí)  

We interviewed the journalist Jenaro Villamil, reporter for the magazine Proceso, who spoke about the harrasment suffered currently by the journalist Isaín Mandujano, the censorship and harrassment to critical journalists in Chiapas, and the influence of Enrique Peña Nieto in the state of Chiapas.(Descarga aquí)  

Read the letter sent by Isaín Mandujano (Spanish):

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Jenaro Villamil, journalist for the magazine Proceso, presented last night his books Si yo fuera Presidente: el “reality show” de Peña Nieto and El Sexenio de Televisa: conjuras del poder mediático. During the presentation at Centro Cultural Tierra Adentro, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Villamil spoke about Televisa’s political power and its alliances with Enrique Peña Nieto and the government of the state of Mexico, as well as his links with the state of Chiapas.

Jenaro Villamil participated in the negotiations for the reform of the federal law of radio and television in 2001 and 2002, was a promoter of the federal law of transparency and access to public information. He is currently a graduate professor of political journalism at the Carlos Septién García School and is author of several books.

Ponencia:(Descarga aquí)  

Preguntas y respuestas:(Descarga aquí)  
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