We have just been informed that Francisco Kuykendall Leal, who was seriously injured during the demonstrations against the presidential inauguration of Enrique Peña Nieto on January 1, 2012, died this morning at 6 a.m. Impunity prevails.

More information:

Fallece
el compañero Juan Francisco Kuykendall

Press release, March 2013.

Revista Proceso: Historias del 1 de diciembre: un ojo perdido, un coma inducido…

Atentado policial a Francisco Kuykendall, el herido de San Lázaro

This January 15, representatives from Ejido Tila in northern Chiapas denounced yet another attempt at dispossession by municipal authorities. On January 20, the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center published a communiqué denouncing a maneuver by the authorities to legalize the dispossession by means of a supposed citizen consultation (read the communiqué in Spanish below).

We spoke with Araceli Olivos Portugal, a lawyer from the Human Rights Center, who explained the situation.

Click here to read the denunciation by Ejido Tila authorities (Spanish).

Read below the communiqué by the Miguel Agustín Pro Human Rights Center:

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Rompeviento Internet TV presents the special report “Michoacán: a fight to death for life.” Members of Michoacán’s self-defense groups explain in an interview the reason they arose, the movement’s fruits, the security crisis, and the void of authority in the state, as well as future scenarios. WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

Programa de Radio Primer día de la cosecha de café en la #ColoniaPuebla #Chiapas

Para comprender más profundamente el conflicto a través del tiempo.

• Qué es la colonia puebla en la región de Chenalhó en el contexto de una guerra integral de desgaste
• Cómo se ha venido dando el conflicto en la Colonia Puebla desde abril de 2013
• Informe del primer día de la cosecha de café en la colonia

Para saber más:

INFORMACIÓN IMPORTANTE SOBRE EL CONFLICTO EN LA COLONIA PUEBLA CHENALHÓ, CHIAPAS

This documentary portrays the threat to indigenous communities in southern Mexico caused by single crop farming, resetlement projects in supposedly “sustainable” rural cities, tourism projects and represion.

Production: zz-colectivo – Iniciativa para la investigación, análisis y educación social, intercultural y ecológica.
(México/Alemania 2013, 71 minutos)

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Al cumplirse meses y medio de haber sido desplazados de su comunidad, los niños, hombres y mujeres ejido Puebla, Municipio de Chenalhó en la Zona Altos de Chiapas, realizaron una conferencia de prensa en el Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas (Frayba), el jueves 9 de enero de 2014.

En dicha conferencia dieron a conocer la situación e informaron su determinación de ir a sus tierras para recoger la cosecha de café, como único medio de sustento para su sobrevivencia en estas condiciones, e invitaron a organizaciones de la sociedad civil a acompañarlos en dicha tarea.

Lectura del comunicado por Catarina Sántiz Hernández, desplazada del Ejido Puebla e integrante de Las Abejas de Acteal
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Antonio Gutiérrez, presidente de la mesa directiva de Las Abejas de Acteal, comunidad en donde permanecen los 98 desplazados desde hace cuatro meses y medio.
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Gilberto Hernández, abogado del Frayba
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Francisco López Sántiz, desplazado del Ejido Puebla, habla sobre los robos ocurridos desde el desplazamiento (tsotsil y traducción)
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Lee el comunicado de prensa del Frayba aquí.

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Since that Januaryr 1, 1994, the EZLN has been to us a source of hope, light in the darkness of our country and our world. Gift and privilege. Inspiration and the responsibility to struggle and keep on struggling for another world.

Gratitude… immense gratitude.

Happy anniversary, EZLN!

When the Dead Silently Speak Out

(Rewind 1)

(A text which reflects on those who are absent and on biographies, narrates Durito’s first encounter with the Cat-Dog, and talks about other things that may or may not be relevant, as the impertinent postscript dictates).

November-December 2013

Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death.
Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual,
we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water,
and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.
Me thinks my body is but the lees of my better being.
In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.
Herman Melville “Moby Dick.”

For a while now I have maintained that most biographies are merely a collection of documented, well-written (well, sometimes) lies. The typical biography is based on a pre-existing belief and the margin of tolerance for anything that strays from that conviction is very narrow, if not inexistent. The author, starting from that previously held belief, begins the search through the jigsaw puzzle of a life unfamiliar to him or her (which is why the bibliography interests them to begin with), and goes about collecting the false or ill-fitting pieces that allow him or her to document their own belief, not the life they are talking about.

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