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.

Jaltenango is the fourth “sustainable rural city” of Chiapas, currently under construction, in the coffee-growing region of La Frailesca. The Canadian journalist Dawn Paley visited the site of the future rural city, where ejidatarios from Nueva Colombia, affected by the rains in September 2010, have been living for the past 10 months in a sports complex in very precarious conditions of overpopulation and lack of basic hygiene conditions. The state government promised them homes in the new rural city, but up to now the only thing that’s been built is an impressive entrance; at the same time, they are not allowed to go back to live on their lands. In an interview with Radio Zapatista, Dawn Paley describes de situation.

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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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Now Catazajá internal beaches in northern Chiapas report abuse and violence against him and his family by jail officials. Similar situations have occurred since the end of 2010 to date in various jails in Chiapas.

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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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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Monthly report by the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center. This report narrates the human rights violations and arbitrary prison committed by the Chiapas state government in the rural city of Nuevo Juan del Grijalva.(Descarga aquí)  

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Monthly report by the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center. This report narrates the human rights violations and arbitrary prison committed by the Chiapas state government in the rural city of Nuevo Juan del Grijalva.(Descarga aquí)  

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