Monthly report by the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (in English). In this program we want to share with our listeners our concern for the latest events in Chiapas, where the state government, headed by Juán Sabines Guerrero, has aimed all of its resources and state apparatus to attack human rights defenders, social organizations, and journalists in the state.

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.

Independent journalists and social network communicators in Chiapas are detained and harassed.

On Tuesday Oct 12 police forces broke into the facilities of Radio Proletaria in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, to tear down the community radio station which for the last 5 years had been working peacefully. At the time, the 14-year-old compañero Carlos Martínez, a high school student, was transmitting; he was detained. The Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center published this bulletin. For more information, visit http://radioproletariachiapas.blogspot.com/.

Testimony by Camilo (Radio Proletaria):(Descarga aquí)  

Testimony by “Mala Fama” (Radio Proletaria): (Descarga aquí)  

12 minute special report (in english) about student protests against fascist youth organizations coordinated by local authorities to repress and dismantle student organizing. interviews with students from CCH-Vallejo & Instituto Politécnico.

• News
• Destruction of San Juan Copala, Oaxaca
• The Frayba Report: “Sustainable Rural Cities” in Chiapas
• Repression against social movements in Chile

Interview with three compañer@s from the anti-authoritarian community in Chile, contextualizing the recent repression on the part of the Chilean state, including the arrest of 14 compañer@s, invasions and raids of social centers and homes. Also, the new modifications of the “anti-terrorism law,” resurrected from the Pinchet dictatorship since the year 2000.

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http://solidaridadporlxspresxs.blogspot.com/

Attempted murder against Margarita de las Nieves and Santiago Ponce, widow and brother of Manuel Ponce Rosas, kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Guerrero, in the context of a growin militarization and repression in that state. Interview with Vidulfo Rosales from the Human Rights Center of the Mountain Tlachinollan and words by Javier Monroy of the Taller de Desarrollo Comunitario in Guerrero, in the Encounter against impunity and for autonomous justice

Report on the situation with the community radio Tierra y Libertad in Monterrey, Nuevo León,and other news (police repression against MOCRI caravan; graffiti artist murdered in Chiapas; land eviction at Ebulá, Campeche; repression of sex workers at Apizaco, Tlaxcala; Encounter by the Movement for Justice in El Barrio, New York).

Report on the national and international mobilizations in solidarity with the political prisoners from San Sebastián Bachajón and the Mexican government’s policy of repression against indigenous communities in Chiapas.