Chiapas

SIPAZ

Trespass in the office of SIPAZ at San Cristobal. Intimidatory note left.

Date:18 Aug 2015

URGENT RELEASE

San Cristóbal de Las Casas
August 17, 2015

A TRESPASS IN THE OFFICE OF SIPAZ,
LEAVING INTIMIDATORY NOTE

Between Friday, August 14 and the midnight of August 17, 2015, the office of the International Service for Peace (SIPAZ), located in Avenida Chilón #8 in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, was trespassed. A working desk had evidence of disorder, where a team member had left money from an outing that had not yet been recorded. Of that money, 4,196 pesos are missing and 210 pesos were left on the desk in different places. Subsequently, a note was found among the papers that reads “be careful white girl” (see photo). The doors were not forced, nor were the windows, and there is no lack of material value, including computers.

SIPAZ is an organization of international observation and accompaniment. Since 1995, SIPAZ has developed as a permanent program in Chiapas that serves the role of dissuasion and prevention of socio-political violence in Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Guerrero, to contribute from the perspective of nonviolence in the construction of positive peace in these states. SIPAZ consists of a coalition of 47 international organizations, and a board of directors from Europe and America.

Given the seriousness of the events, we express our grave concern regarding our safety and security, as well as the people and defense processes we accompany. It should be recalled that under the provisions of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 9, 1998, in relation to Article 1: “Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to promote and to strive for the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels.”

Sincerely,
Marina Pagès
SIPAZ Coordinator

Source: SIPAZ

Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas

Ante la elección de Estado, el gobierno de Chiapas viola derechos humanos

Date:12 Jun 2015

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San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México, a 11 de junio 2015 Boletín 14

Ante la elección de Estado, el gobierno de Chiapas viola derechos humanos

Privación Arbitraria de la libertad de 11 personas en Ocosingo
Uso Excesivo de la Fuerza Pública y Tratos o Penas Crueles Inhumanos o Degradantes

El Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas (Frayba) documentó graves violaciones a los derechos humanos, consistentes en Tratos o Penas Crueles Inhumanos o Degradantes; Privación Arbitraria de la Libertad y Uso Excesivo de la Fuerza Pública, cometidas en contra de 11 personas, dos de ellas manifiestan ser indígenas tseltales. Hechos sucedidos el 07 de junio de 2015, a las 9:30 horas, en el marco de una marcha convocada por maestros de la región VII de la Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE), en Ocosingo, Chiapas.

Testimonios documentados por este Centro de Derechos Humanos refieren que en un operativo, llevado acabo por 200 Policías Municipales, detuvieron de manera arbitraria y con Uso Excesivo de la Fuerza Pública a cuatro personas que participaban en la movilización social: una profesora, dos profesores, un estudiante; y siete personas no vinculadas a los actos de protesta: dos taxistas que se ubicaban fuera del lugar de los hechos, un vendedor ambulante que tomaba fotos con su celular, un repartidor de tortillas que pasó con su moto, un campesino que iba a votar por el Partido Verde Ecologista de México (PVEM), un ayudante de ferretería quien refirió iba por su esposa a una casilla donde ella fue a votar y un catequista que se encontraba en un puesto de la kermes organizada por la Parroquia de San Jacinto de Polonia.

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JBG de Garrucha

Junta de Buen Gobierno from La Garrucha, Our Path to Future, reports paramilitary assault

Date:13 May 2015

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Radio Pozol

In a 3-day pilgrimage, more than 15,000 indigenous people denounce violence, impunity and corruption in Chiapas

Date:24 Mar 2015

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Escucha transmisión en vivo aquí:
Radio Votán

“Simojovel es el reflejo pequeño de lo que pasa en todo el país”.

“Esta peregrinación es una acción pacífica, en la que se pedirá por la paz, la justicia y un alto a la corrupción. Exigiendo que se atiendan las necesidades sociales de los pueblos en la región”, informa el centro de derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Frayba), sobre la multitudinaria peregrinación convocada por el Consejo Parroquial y el Pueblo Creyente de Simojovel, durante los días 23 al 26 de marzo hacia Tuxtla Gutiérrez.

“La violencia ha sido generada por personas militantes de los partidos políticos, autoridades municipales y personas vinculadas con el crimen organizado”, denuncia el consejo Parroquial. “Esta situación de deterioro de las relaciones comunitarias ha sido permitida, tolerada y con plena complicidad de funcionarios de los tres niveles del gobierno mexicano”, abunda el Frayba en un boletín de prensa.

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Gaspar Morquecho

Simojovel Chiapas: Importante, significativa y oportuna la Peregrinación del Pueblo Creyente.

Date:24 Mar 2015

Radio Zapatista

Antonia and the Fury of Patriarchs

Date:08 Mar 2015

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Ciudad de México, 8 de marzo de 2015.
Eugenia Gutiérrez, colectivo Radio Zapatista.

Dios nunca sonríe. Impera en oriente y occidente, en el norte y en el sur, mientras observa distante a sus criaturas destructoras. Desde hace milenios, la institucionalidad de las tres religiones monoteístas dominantes lo representa o lo piensa como un hombre maduro, blanco, poderoso y sano. Nadie le conoce una novia ni un amigo. Jamás lo han visto alimentando a un bebé ni disfrutando de un tranquilo día de campo. Si la humanidad fue creada “a su imagen y semejanza” debió ocurrir una grave confusión en el acto, o bien, un severo error de producción, pues nadie lo ha escuchado cantar ni se le ha visto por ahí llorando de amor, soñando, trabajando, padeciendo alguna discapacidad ni aprendiendo a bailar. De hecho, el noventa por ciento de sus criaturas no se le asemejan.
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EZLN

Thank You Part I.

Date:06 Mar 2015

On Sunday, March 1, 2015, after more than six months of work, the building that houses a health clinic and a school was presented to the Zapatista bases of support of La Realidad. The solidarity of people and collectives throughout the world made this construction possible. Here we present to you the accounts, the words expressed during this event, and some photos from that day.

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**Clear accounts and thick pozol:[i]**

-Construction began on July 31, 2014. It was finished at the end of February 2015.

-Work days: approximately 2015 compa/work days.

Note from The Tercios Compas[ii] on the compa/work day, abbreviated CWD. CWD is a Zapatista unit of measure that could be thought of as equivalent to Socially Necessary Labor Time (SNLT). However, in addition to the fact that it is not measured in hours, CWD is not a unit of measure of value. CWD is a referent in order to compare the individual and the collective (an individual would have taken almost 7 years to do what a collective did in almost 7 months), and to contrast that which is done below and to the left with that which is done above and to the right (a government from above would have taken 14 years and still wouldn’t have finished the job). For example: with billions in their budget, the Chiapas state government cannot finish building hospitals in Reforma, Yajalón and Tuxtla Gutiérrez. The one in Tuxtla Gutiérrez is just one of the examples that abound of the corruption of the “leftist-PRDista-AMLOista” Juan Sabines Guerrero (who, as his predecessor Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía confessed, created and financed the paramilitary group known as CIOAC-H in Chiapas; the Aryan Velasco carries on those same politics). In 2012, to “inaugurate” the hospital in Tuxtla, they moved equipment there from other hospitals. After that psychopath Calderón and the criminal Sabines cut the ribbon, they dismantled everything. Now it is just a shell (information from “Chiapas Paralelo” chiapasparalelo.com and “Diario Contra Poder” diariaocontrapoderenchiapas.com). The Aryan Velasco hides his patron’s enormous fraud and follows in his footsteps. Meanwhile, the money paid out above is spent on media propaganda, binge parties, decor, and makeup and beauty salons. In addition, of course, to being spent on persecuting the small independent paid media that still exists in the state, and buying silence on social networks. It is one thing to use handouts to corral people into praising the Aryan rancher, and a very different thing to organize in order to build what the people need. More information on the concept of SNLT, in Capital, Volume 1, Section 1, Chapter 1. We don’t remember the author, but he was a Jew, so proceed with caution. More information on the concept of CWD later on. End of the note from the Los Tercios Compas, press that is neither free, nor autonomous, nor alternative, nor independent, but it is compa. Copyright still in process because the Junta de Buen Gobierno told us “more information later on” (sonofa….didn’t I tell you?).

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Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano

En el tablón de avisos. El conserje.

Date:04 Mar 2015

On the Bulletin Board

The Concierge.

ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION.

March 2015.

Early morning in reality.

Just here, as usual: watching and listening. The crack in the wall is barely visible from the other side. On our side it expands with persistence.

In the classrooms and in the huts of the thousands of Zapatista families who received, housed, fed, and cared for thousands of others,[1] men, women, and children from the five continents, the evaluations made by the teachers and votanes after you all left still resound.

Some of the evaluations were harsh, it’s true, but that probably won’t matter to those who claimed to had been moved by the experience and then continued on with their lives as if nothing had happened, avoiding looking in the mirror or editing that glance at their whim. Despite this, according to what I’ve heard, there were some, a few, that were evaluated as “pretty good.”

“Pretty good” is how the compas describe something good without making a fuss. “How are you?” “Well, I’m here, pretty good,” is how we greet each other.

Meanwhile time marches on just as we do, without fuss, just moving along, like shadows…

And the compa Galeano, who lit up these classrooms, houses, and schools with his word, now fallen and silent, murdered.

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Subcomandantes Insurgentes Moisés y Galeano

Letter from the EZLN to Doña Emilia Aurora Sosa Marín, life partner of Honorary Major Insurgent Félix Serdán Nájera. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés and Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano

Date:01 Mar 2015

Zapatista Army for National Liberation
Mexico

February 2015

To: Doña Emilia Aurora Sosa Marín.
From: Subcomandates Insurgentes Moisés and Galeano
EZLN, Chiapas, Mexico

Compañera Emilia:

We got the news just a few hours ago. We don’t know how long it will take for these lines to reach you, but we know that regardless of the date, you will be able to read in these words the collective embrace that we send you.

That is because here we also feel the pain and sorrow of the death of Don Félix Serdán Nájera, honorary officer in our Zapatista Army for National Liberation, this past February 22 in the early morning hours.

We remember Don Félix’s firm and tender gaze, but we also remember your presence. It is as if between the two of you your journey was complete. That’s why we say that his absence brings us pain, but we also hurt for the pain that you feel in your heart today, Doña Emilia.

That is why with these words we not only want to salute the memory of compañero Felix Serdán, but to embrace you as well.

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Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas

Armed group harasses and threatens zapatistas from El Rosario

Date:27 Feb 2015

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.