Interviw with Jorge Armando about the work of the FrayBa, the recent history of repression in Chiapas, and the preparations of the Mexican state for 2010: the media campaign against human rights organizations and counterinsurgency actions in communities.

By Alejandro Reyes – Radio Zapatista

Intellectuals, scholars, lawyers, indigenous and peasant representatives, and activists debate on the situation of justice in Latin America and the construction of an autonomous justice. (Most of the voices in this documentary are from interviews done at the Continental Encounter against Impunity and for Autonomous Justice (20-21 Jun 2009) at the Caracol of Morelia, Chiapas.) (Descarga aquí)   With the participation of:

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Interview with Víctor Hugo López from the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center about the growing state and paramilitary violence in Chiapas against the communities who oppose the construction of the San Cristóbal-Palenque highway and the mega tourism projects.

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Violence and resistance in Mitzitón: The communal authorities of Mitzitón, Chiapas, denounce new agressions against them in the context of the construction of the San Cristóbal-Palenque highway.

Continental Encounter against Impunity and for Autonomous Justice, Caracol de Morelia, Chiapas (Jun 20-21).

Encounter againt impunity; political prisoners from Chiapas denounce repression; Caravan por political prisoners from Loxicha, Oaxaca, reaches Mexico City; Mega-march in Oaxaca; Member of the other campaign is detained in San Luís Potosí.

Report on the situation with the community radio Tierra y Libertad in Monterrey, Nuevo León,and other news (police repression against MOCRI caravan; graffiti artist murdered in Chiapas; land eviction at Ebulá, Campeche; repression of sex workers at Apizaco, Tlaxcala; Encounter by the Movement for Justice in El Barrio, New York).

Report on the national and international mobilizations in solidarity with the political prisoners from San Sebastián Bachajón and the Mexican government’s policy of repression against indigenous communities in Chiapas.