• EnlaceZapatista denies EZLN or the Other Campaign involvement in the kidnapping of Diego Fernández de Cevallos
• Special report on “sustainable rural cities”
• New agressions against human rights activists in Chiapas
• The Frayba Report: hostilities against human rights activists and independent journalists in Chiapas

Interview with a member of Redwood Curtain Copwatch who has been organizing around the 2007 police killing of Martin Cotton II. The interview tells the story of Martin’s murder in the Humboldt County Jail by Eureka Police Department (EPD) and the Sheriff. It also describes how Redwood Curtain Copwatch has kept Martin’s killing in public memory even though the Humboldt County Judicial system has yet to prosecute any Eureka officers and Humboldt County Sheriff who were involved. Martin Cotton’s 5-year old daughter and father are suing EPD and the Humboldt Country Sheriff; the trial begins on Jan 11 at the Courthouse in Oakland. Please check out Redwood Curtain Copwatch for more information.

We spoke with doctor Alejandro Meza, member of the Red of Medical and Mental Health Personnel for the Attention to Survivors of Torture and external collaborator of the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba), who recently suffered threats and had his house and car broken into. We also interviewed Jorge Hernández, from the Frayba, who spoke of the situation of human rights activists at the national level and in Chiapas.

After a long struggle, the vendors at the traditional market in San Cristóbal de las Casas won the battle to stay at their place of work and sustainance. Among general joy, Narciso Ruiz Sántiz, president of the newly formed Association of Merchants of the Traditional Market of San Cristóbal de las Casas gave this press conference.

(Also read the articl on the situation before the agreement, by Hermann Bellinghausen of La Jornada.)