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NotiFrayba: For Mother Earth and Peoples’ Lives
Foto: Rechazo a proyectos de explotación de hidrocarburos en Tecpatán, noviembre 2016
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Zoques communities reject hydrocarbon exploration projects
Communities and ejidos from the municipalities of Tecpatán and Francisco León, Chiapas, reject hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation projects in their territories. Through a communiqué dated 6 October 2016, they informed that in assemblies they decided to defend the Mother Earth and their culture as Zoque peoples. On 31 October, at the municipal seat of Tecpatán, approximately 1,500 people marched in rejection of the structural reforms and for an end to the imposition of hydrocarbon projects.
Mega-pilgrimate in defense of Mother Earth and for people’s life with dignity
The Movement for the Defense of Life and Territory, made up by Pueblo Creyente from 11 municipalities of the Tseltal, Tsotsil and Ch’ol peoples from Chiapas, invites to participate in a mega-pilgrimage to denounce the death projects that are entering our communities and that damage our identity as indigenous peoples. From 15 to 25 November, from Salto de Agua to San Cristóbal de Las Casas.
CNI and EZLN: Solidarity with the Indigenous Community of Santa María Ostula, Michoacán
Joint Communique from the CNI and the EZLN in Solidarity with the Indigenous Community of Santa María Ostula, Michoacán
November 4, 2016
To the Nahua community of Santa María Ostula, Michoacán:
To the peoples of the world:
To national and international civil society:
To the independent media:
The peoples, nations, and tribes who make up the National Indigenous Congress and the Zapatista Army for National Liberation manifest our profound condemnation of the actions carried out in unison by the bad governments and criminal groups against the Nahua indigenous community of Santa María Ostula, municipality of Aquila, Michoacán, in an attempt to crush their dignified and historic struggle.
These governments were not only complicit in the attack against Cemeí Verdía on May 25, 2015, but in fact freed those directly responsible, Juan Hernández Ramírez (then municipal president of Aquila) and José Antioco Calvillo. They [the government] imprisoned Cemeí Verdía on false charges and murdered the young boy Hidelberto Reyes García.
The bad governments now intend to arrest commander Germán Ramírez, fabricating criminal charges against those who struggle to defend the land and their families. At the same time, we see the regrouping of members of the Knights Templar cartel who are already reorganized and heavily armed in the eastern part of the municipality of Aquila.