Interview with Vivian Newdick of the Comité Hermanas González, regarding the case of three tzeltal women who were gang-raped by mexican soldiers at a military checkpoint in 1994, just months after the zapatista uprising. Discussion covers the difficult history of the sisters’ legal battle against the mexican military as well as recent developments in which the current governor of chiapas has attempted to settle the case with an offer of money — but without any acknowledgment of wrongdoing on the part of the soldiers.

• Death threats to human rights activist Margarita Guadalupe Martínez Martinez and members and director of Frayba Human Rights Center.
• Report from the Other Europe.
• Monthly Frayba Report: paramilitarization 13 years after the Acteal massacre..

The government of Chiapas is unable to guarantee the integrity of human rights defenders in Chiapas, nor comply with precautionary meassures by the CIDH.(Descarga aquí)  

Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, professor at Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Brazil, speaks about education and the MST (Landless Peasant Movement), at an event at Universidad de la Tierra/Cideci, Chiapas.

The Mexican Supreme Court can stop the state government’s attempt to take away 130 hectares of land from the ejidatarios of Tila, Chiapas. Ricardo, a member of the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center, explains the case.

Report on the massacre of Acteal and the recent liberation of 15 more paramilitaries, material authors of the massacre, with words by Don Raúl Vera, Pedro Faro (Frayba) and members of Las Abejas de Acteal. (Subscribe to the podcast of the Frayba Report).

Report on the massacre of Acteal and the recent liberation of 15 more paramilitaries, material authors of the massacre, with words by Don Raúl Vera, Pedro Faro (Frayba) and members of Las Abejas de Acteal. (Subscribe to the podcast of Reporte Frayba).

Radio news from Europe below and to the left:

• Nigerian woman attacked and deported – Bolonia Italia
• Israeli documents revealed about embargo against Gaza, Palestine
• Luxury cars in flames – Berlin, Germany
• General strike in Spain and occupation of the National Spanish Bank in Barcelona
• Repression and actions during the no borders camp – Brussels
• Chronicle of revolts for freedom of migrants at the CIE’s
• Graphic exhibit on the Oaxacan struggle in Italy
• Long summer of violence and evictions in France

DISPLACEMENT: complete show that attempts to develop an expansive understanding of the phenomenon of displacement. the main topics include gang injunctions in oakland; the invasion of san juan copala, oaxaca; and the case of the gonzález sisters, three tzeltal girls who were raped by mexican soldiers in 1994. (1hr 40 min, mp3)

After the release from prison of 15 new paramilitary members physically responsible for the Massacre of Acteal, the Las Abejas civil organization gave a press conference this last October 22, where they denounce these actions by the Mexican government.