From Tapachula, Chiapas, human rights activists comment on the situation of Cristóbal Sánchez, who is in hunger strike since July 17.

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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.

Interview to members of the Autonomous Regional Council of the Coastal Zone of Chiapas, adherents to the Other Campaign, who explain the criminalization and persecution by the Mexican state to the Digna Ochoa Human Rights Center, in particular its director Nataniel Hernández Núñez. The interview is part of the weekly radio column in Radio Teocelo (Veracruz) via internet from Barcelona, Spain. This time, the interview was a connection between Barcelona, Chiapas, and Radio Teocelo, Veracruz.

[podcast]http://www.archive.org/download/CdhDignaOchoa/cdh_digna_ochoa.mp3[/podcast]

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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.

[podcast]https://radiozapatista.org/Audios/RZnot_2011_07_13.mp3[/podcast]
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People outside the Popular Front Organization Lucio Cabañas take land on behalf of that organization and the State Government incriminating their leaders without these facts are true.

Hear the interview to Roberto Gamboa from the Montaña Tlachinolan Human Rights Center, who speaks about the situation in Guerrero.[podcast]http://www.archive.org/download/RobertoGamboaParaNoticiero/gamboanoticiero.mp3[/podcast]
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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):[podcast]https://radiozapatista.org/Audios/guamuchil_palabrasprimeras.mp3[/podcast]

Commentaries – Gabriela Patishtán (Voces Inocentes), Mercedes Oliveira, Xóchtil Leyva:[podcast]https://radiozapatista.org/Audios/guamuchil_comentaristas.mp3[/podcast]

Questions and answers:[podcast]https://radiozapatista.org/Audios/guamuchil_preguntas.mp3[/podcast]

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[podcast]https://radiozapatista.org/Audios/OB_2011_07_08.mp3[/podcast]

On this month’s show we bring you three in-depth interviews: 1) Oakland librarian “Agnes” on public libraries in a time of austerity, when 14 of 18 libraries were threatened with closure; 2) reporter and author John Gibler on his new book, To Die in Mexico, which analyzes the so-called “drug war” in Mexico; and 3) two compañerxs from UA in the Bay announce the Anarchist General Assembly that will take place on July 16, along with an update on the continuing occupation of Glen Cove. (2 hrs, mp3)

Four audio files are available here: 1) the full show; 2) interview on libraries and austerity (28 min); 3) interview with John Gibler (42 min); 4) interview on Anarchist General Assembly (14 min).