Since mid-February this year, an armed grou from of Pojol, municipality of Chilón (Chiapas), has been harassing the zapatista bases of support from the communities of El Rosario and Nuevo Paraíso, shooting at the air and destroying the home of a zapatista family at El Rosario. Now they threaten to violently take the community of Nuevo Paraíso if the zapatistas do not remove the guard that protects El Rosario. Belo, the denunciation from the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center.

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On Sept. 26, 2014, municipal police attacked a group of students from Ayotzinapa school in Mexico’s Guerrero state. Of the 43 disappeared students, eight came from Tecoanapa. Now their fellow citizens have shut down the local government buildings and set up a people’s council. It’s a movement that is gathering momentum across Guerrero.

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Por Ehécatl

El 11 de febrero del 2015, en un mitin afuera de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN), Tomas Rojo, vocero de la tribu Yaqui, en compañía de Areli Sandoval y Edmundo del Pozo, integrantes de “La Misión Civil de Observación de la Consulta a la Tribu Yaqui” y José Antonio Guevara, de la Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y promoción de los derechos humanos, hicieron entrega del informe actualizado en donde se exponen las arbitrariedades y violaciones a los derechos indígenas por la operación del Acueducto Independencia.

Dicho informe sobre el monitoreo y documentación del proceso de consulta de la tribu Yaqui, expone las violaciones a la ejecución de la sentencia emitida por la SCJN (631/2012), la cual obliga a la Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Semarnat) a consultar a los pueblos indígenas, así como también presenta conclusiones y recomendaciones al Estado mexicano, tales como:

1. Garantizar la consulta libre respetando la autonomía de la tribu, dejando en libertad a Mario Luna y Fernando Jiménez y poniendo fin a la criminalización contra los Yaquis.
2. Garantizar una consulta de buena fe suspendiendo la operación del Acueducto Independencia que ocasiona un daño irreparable a la tribu, limitando un dialogo sincero entre las partes.
3. Garantizar una consulta informada, entregando los puntos faltantes solicitados por la tribu Yaqui como el peritaje antropológico.
4. Garantizar el derecho al consentimiento, respetando la decisión de la tribu frente a la operación del acueducto, la cual debe tener carácter vinculante para el Ejecutivo Federal.

México D.F., 12 de febrero de 2015.

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As part of the Faces of Dispossession campaign, which focuses on forced displacement in indigenous communities in Chiapas, the displaced families of Banavil are asking people to organize screenings of this new video made by Koman Ilel and Promedios. It is mainly in Tseltal, and is available with good clear Spanish or English subtitles. It is 27 minutes long.

In a context of counterinsurgency war, the López Girón families, EZLN supporters, were attacked on December 4, 2011 in the hamlet of Banavil, Tenejapa Municipality, Chiapas. Alonso López Luna was kidnapped and disappeared, and the rest of his family were forcibly displaced. They are currently living in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, without access to their rights to land, health, education and food. This video portrays, through moving interviews, their experiences during and after the forced displacement.

To organize a screening, please contact: solidaridad@frayba.org.mx

*The Faces of Dispossession Campaign enables the indigenous peoples of Chiapas to speak out against the different Faces of Dispossession they experience on a daily basis. It also identifies and makes visible those responsible for human rights violations in order to demand that the Mexican state comply with its human rights obligations. For more information, please look at the campaign site: http://www.rostrosdeldespojo.org/

https://dorsetchiapassolidarity.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/call-for-screenings-of-new-documentary-forced-displacement-justice-truth-and-return-for-the-families-of-banavil/

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