Text presented at I Coloquio sobre teorías y literatura en Latinoamérica y el Caribe, La Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia, April 2011.
Report “Government creates and administers conflicts for territorial control in Chiapas”.
Nataniel Hernández, director of the Digna Ochoa Human Rights Center, speaks from the prison of El Amate, Chiapas.
Nataniel Hernández narrates the violations he suffered together with the lawyers Eduardo Martínez Silvas and José Martínez Cruz from the Digna Ochoa Human Rights Center in Tonalá, Chiapas.(Descarga aquí)
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Last Saturday, after deciding in an assembly to return to their homes after 15 days on permanent guard at the community building, some compañeros who live far away from the center were received by members of the Army of God; they were beaten, attacked with knifes, and had to be taken to the Red Cross.(Descarga aquí)
In the last weeks, violence against organized communities that defend their territories against multinational projects in Chiapas and against human rights defenders have increased dramatically. In this program, we interview adherents to the Other Campaign in Bachajón and Mitzitón and a lawyer from the Digna Ochoa Human Rights Center. (Subscribe to the podcast of Noticias de la Otra here.)(Descarga aquí)
Given the alarming increase in repression and violence in Chiapas and the political prisoners, we interviewed today:
Representative from the community of San Sebastián Bachajón, who spoke about the events on Feb 2 and 3 and the current situation of political prisoners.(Descarga aquí)
Lawyer from the Digna Ochoa Human Rights Center, who spoke on the events on the coast of Chiapas and the situation of the three prisoners from that center.(Descarga aquí)
Member of the community of Mitzitón, who spoke on the situation currently lived by the community after the new attack by members of the paramlitary organization Army of God. For more than two weeks, 219 men, 302 women, and many children are living in the church and the community building, fearing new attacks.(Descarga aquí)
After years of a process full of irregularities and impunity, despite extensive evidence, the voice of the community radio comunitaria Ñomndaa continues being stepped on; a radio station that for years has been giving voice to the voiceless, the Nnanncue indigenous peoples.
Program by Radio Ñomndaa on the case of Don Silverio Matías Domínguez, who for 10 years has demanded justice for the agression that made him lose an eye, and the impunity that declared innocent the aggressor, the current municipal secretary of Xochislahuaca and brother of the cacique Aceadeth Rocha Ramírez, José Luis Rocha Ramírez. Part 1:(Descarga aquí)
Part 2:(Descarga aquí)
Radio segment in solidarity with the compañer@s from Guerrero from the Other Europe (Nodo Solidale / Colectivo Zapatista de Lugano / Nomads de Xm24).(Descarga aquí)
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