{"id":51362,"date":"2025-07-30T12:12:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=51362"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:50:16","slug":"encuentro-internacional-en-defensa-de-la-vida-el-maiz-el-agua-el-territorio-y-la-madre-tierra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=51362","title":{"rendered":"[:es]Encuentro Internacional en Defensa de la Vida: el Ma\u00edz, el Agua, el Territorio y la Madre Tierra[:en]International Encounter in Defense of Life: Corn, Water, the Territory, and Mother Earth[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p>[:es]<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Del 25 al 27 de julio de 2025 se reunieron en Chiapas 250 personas de 60 comunidades, organizaciones y redes provenientes de diferentes estados de M\u00e9xico y de otros pa\u00edses para un Encuentro Internacional en Defensa de la Vida: el Ma\u00edz, el Agua, el Territorio y la Madre Tierra. El objetivo del encuentro fue compartir experiencias organizativas en defensa de la vida y pensar en com\u00fan c\u00f3mo hacer frente a los proyectos y megaproyectos, as\u00ed como la militarizaci\u00f3n y el crimen organizado, que atentan contra la vida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tras tres d\u00edas de encuentro, los presentes emitieron una declaratoria en la que analizan la situaci\u00f3n actual que se vive en los territorios. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Declaratoria del Encuentro Internacional en Defensa de la Vida. Ahlan Muc\u00b4ul Ha\u00b4, Chi\u00f3n, Chiapas\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7KmNWrTxi0c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DECLARATORIA<\/strong><br><strong>S\u00cd A LA VIDA, NO A LOS PROYECTOS DE MUERTE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A la Sociedad Civil local, nacional e internacional<br>A los organismos defensores de derechos humanos<br>A los Estados y a los gobiernos del Planeta Tierra<br>A los movimientos, luchas dignas y rebeldes<br>A la prensa local, nacional e internacional<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Estando presentes 250 personas, integrantes de 60 comunidades, organizaciones y redes nos reunimos los d\u00edas 25, 26 y 27 de julio de 2025 en la comunidad Ahlan Muc\u2019ul Ha\u2019 (Abajo del R\u00edo Grande), en el municipio de Chil\u00f3n, Chiapas, con el objetivo de compartir experiencias organizativas y comunitarias en las resistencias y en la defensa de la vida, el agua, el ma\u00edz, el territorio y la Madre Tierra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somos mujeres, hombres, j\u00f3venas, j\u00f3venes, mayores y mayoras, ni\u00f1os y ni\u00f1as, reconoci\u00e9ndonos en nuestras diversidades culturales, generacionales, espirituales y sexo-gen\u00e9ricas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Venimos de diferentes territorios de M\u00e9xico, tales como Oaxaca, Coahuila, Veracruz, Hidalgo, Guerrero, Puebla, Estado de M\u00e9xico, Chiapas, as\u00ed como Colombia, Pa\u00eds Valenciano y Alemania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nos hemos encontrado para buscar juntes c\u00f3mo hacer frente a los proyectos de muerte tejiendo con mayor fuerza nuestras alternativas que ya estamos construyendo en cada familia, comunidad, pueblo, regi\u00f3n, territorio, organizaci\u00f3n y lucha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Luego de tres d\u00edas de compartir y analizar lo que sucede en nuestras regiones y en el mundo, DECLARAMOS Y REAFIRMAMOS que:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nuestros territorios tienen una gran diversidad biocultural que nos han heredado nuestros ancestros y ancestras, las cuales est\u00e1n puestas en grave peligro a causa de un modelo de desarrollo extractivista que, bajo la l\u00f3gica individualista, capitalista y patriarcal, nos est\u00e1 despojando de todo lo que nos da vida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reconocemos que sufrimos las mismas amenazas: a) la violaci\u00f3n de nuestros derechos como mujeres, ni\u00f1eces, j\u00f3venes, j\u00f3venas, hombres, diversidades sexo-gen\u00e9ricas, pueblos y Madre Tierra; b) la militarizaci\u00f3n de nuestros territorios por las diferentes fuerzas de seguridad local, regional y nacional, as\u00ed como, c) la presencia del crimen organizado y su complicidad con los gobiernos y los Estados.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Denunciamos que, en todos nuestros territorios, se nos imponen proyectos sin el consentimiento de los pueblos e instrumentalizando las consultas para efectuar y consumar el despojo. Tambi\u00e9n denunciamos c\u00f3mo de forma sist\u00e9mica se instiga, desde el poder institucional y los poderes f\u00e1cticos, la divisi\u00f3n comunitaria a favor de las empresas capitalistas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En un mundo que est\u00e1 agotado sabemos que nuestro enemigo es el mismo y por eso declaramos que no estamos a favor del desarrollo colonialista y patriarcal porque nunca ha funcionado para nosotros y nosotras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>GRACIAS A LAS COMPARTICIONES QUE REALIZAMOS<\/em>, hemos conocido de viva voz la lucha que las mujeres y los pueblos de los municipios que conforman el MODEVITE (Movimiento en Defensa de la Vida y el Territorio), el Gobierno Comunitario de Chil\u00f3n, as\u00ed como de su Pluriversidad Aut\u00f3noma Comunal Yutsilal Bahlumilal-Gobierno Comunitario Ch\u2019ich\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El MODEVITE nos ha compartido su experiencia de m\u00e1s de 10 a\u00f1os de resistencia contra la Autopista San Crist\u00f3bal de Las Casas-Palenque, mal llamada \u201cla Carretera de las Culturas\u201d. Esta lucha reson\u00f3 junto a las luchas de comunidades y organizaciones de la sociedad civil de Oaxaca contra el Corredor Interoce\u00e1nico, la presa Margarita Maza de Ju\u00e1rez y las concesiones mineras. Desde el sureste de Coahuila compartieron la resistencia contra el basurero de residuos t\u00f3xicos industriales, ilegal y clandestino y la defensa del agua del arroyo San Miguel. Las compa\u00f1eras de Hidalgo compartieron la lucha contra el parque solar que se quiere establecer en ciudad Sahag\u00fan y la contaminaci\u00f3n del agua en Tula, proveniente de los desechos de la zona metropolitana de la Ciudad de M\u00e9xico. Desde el norte de Veracruz se denunci\u00f3 la distribuci\u00f3n gubernamental de fertilizantes y agrot\u00f3xicos que enferman la tierra y la salud de las comunidades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A la par conocimos por parte de Crianzas Mutuas Colombia la defensa de los r\u00edos en el municipio de Su\u00e1rez en el valle del Cauca. De ese mismo pa\u00eds, nos trajeron las palabras de las luchas del Cabildo de Taganga, Santa Marta, realizada por las comunidades de pescadores de la costa atl\u00e1ntica colombiana quienes luchan por defender sus <em>maritorios<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hemos compartido nuestros dolores, pero tambi\u00e9n nuestras esperanzas y fortalezas: nuestra organizaci\u00f3n comunitaria tejida a trav\u00e9s de nuestros sistemas normativos, nuestras espiritualidades y ceremonias, as\u00ed como el trabajo colectivo comunitario que sostiene las alternativas que caminamos en nuestra cotidianidad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hemos tejido nuestra capacidad de compartir y de so\u00f1ar en medio de las violencias y guerras que nos atraviesan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>DENUNCIAMOS<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">las estrategias de los gobiernos, partidos pol\u00edticos, \u00e9lites empresariales y caciques locales que buscan desestabilizar nuestras organizaciones comunitarias para despojarnos de nuestros territorios, a favor de sus intereses capitalistas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exigimos el respeto a nuestros derechos y los de nuestra Madre Tierra, as\u00ed como el respeto a la vida de los y las defensoras del territorio y de los derechos humanos que est\u00e1n en pie de lucha en toda Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Planeta Tierra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exigimos respeto a la autonom\u00eda de los pueblos originarios, negros y afrodescendientes, que se respeten las decisiones que se toman dentro del ejercicio de su libre determinaci\u00f3n, as\u00ed como todos sus derechos colectivos reconocidos en la legislaci\u00f3n nacional e internacional.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exigimos la inmediata detenci\u00f3n de los megaproyectos que est\u00e1n en nuestros territorios, de las megacarreteras y las concesiones que permiten el despojo de la Madre Tierra, y la extracci\u00f3n de los bienes naturales, imponiendo un modelo de desarrollo colonialista que no proviene de nuestra sabidur\u00eda como pueblos originarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exigimos el respeto a las mujeres, juventudes, ni\u00f1eces, diversidades sexo-gen\u00e9ricas en general y, en particular, a las de los pueblos originarios, \u00e9tnicos, campesinos, pesqueros, negros y afrodescendientes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Las juventudes exigimos nuestro derecho a florecer en nuestras propias comunidades, aportando nuestras habilidades y saberes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nos solidarizamos con los movimientos sociales colombianos que se manifiestan contra las transnacionales que explotan el gas, el petr\u00f3leo en el fondo marino, construyen represas da\u00f1ando los r\u00edos y desarrollan miner\u00eda a gran escala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nos solidarizamos con el MODEVITE y todas los colectivos, comunidades, organizaciones y redes que luchan contra los megaproyectos extractivistas y depredadores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>DESDE ESTE TERRITORIO SAGRADO MAYA HACEMOS UN CONTUNDENTE LLAMADO:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A los pueblos originarios y a la sociedad civil local, nacional e internacional a acompa\u00f1ar presencialmente o desde la distancia, el pr\u00f3ximo 9 de agosto de este 2025, D\u00eda Internacional de los Derechos de los Pueblos Ind\u00edgenas, la peregrinaci\u00f3n convocada por el Pueblo Creyente de la Misi\u00f3n jesuita de Bachaj\u00f3n para mostrar su rechazo a la autopista que atravesar\u00e1 estos territorios mayas ind\u00edgenas, cuya implementaci\u00f3n no ha respetado los derechos de los pueblos originarios, y que, junto con el Corredor Interoce\u00e1nico,&nbsp; el Tren mal llamado Maya y la privatizaci\u00f3n del agua, son parte del reordenamiento territorial del Sur-Sureste mexicano al servicio del gran capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Les exhortamos a seguir tejiendo por todos los diversos medios y formas que podamos, nuestra sabidur\u00eda ancestral y nuestras espiritualidades para fortalecer lo que tenemos en com\u00fan en la b\u00fasqueda de la paz con justicia y dignidad y en la defensa de la vida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Invitamos a revalorizar la vida campesina y de las comunidades que siembran nuestros alimentos, as\u00ed como la defensa de semillas nativas libres de transg\u00e9nicos y de la producci\u00f3n natural de nuestros alimentos para recuperar la fertilidad de nuestras tierras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sabemos que ni los gobiernos ni los Estados van a solucionar nuestros problemas, por ello, debemos seguir caminando juntes, tejiendo nuestros saberes y espiritualidades para el respeto de la VIDA, empezando por nuestro cuerpo, territorio, tierra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Llamamos a todos los pueblos y la sociedad civil local, nacional e internacional a seguir luchando con un solo coraz\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>SALUDAMOS Y ABRAZAMOS<\/em> <em>A LAS Y LOS COMPA\u00d1EROS Y COMPA\u00d1ERAS DE:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La comunidad de Cher\u00e1n<em> K\u2019eri<\/em>. Les decimos: \u00a1No est\u00e1n solos y su lucha es nuestra lucha!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apoyamos la lucha de <em>Jlumaltik <\/em>Candelariapor el reconocimiento de su gobierno y autonom\u00eda comunitaria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abrazamos a las y los zapatistas y al Encuentro de Resistencias y Rebeld\u00edas \u201cAlgunas Partes del Todo\u201d convocado por ellas, ellos, <em>elloas<\/em> en su territorio a realizarse del 2 al 17 de agosto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apoyamos la lucha de la Organizaci\u00f3n Sociedad Civil Las Abejas por justicia, paz y dignidad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abrazamos a los y las organizadores del Foro Regional en Defensa del Territorio y la Autonom\u00eda frente a megaproyectos en la Chontal e Istmo a celebrarse el 9 de agosto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Congreso Internacional de Comunalidad a llevarse a cabo el 7, 8 y 9 de agosto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A la lucha de las y los trabajadores de la educaci\u00f3n de la CNTE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A las compa\u00f1eras de la Academia Jineoloj\u00ee en Rojava, as\u00ed como a la Academia Modernidad Democr\u00e1tica y a todo el movimiento de mujeres kurdas y del Confederalismo Democr\u00e1tico del Kurdist\u00e1n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A nuestros compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eras parte del Tejido Global de Alternativas (TGA): Crianzas Mutuas Colombia, Vikalp Sangam de India y el Movimiento de Alternativas y Solidaridad del Sureste Asi\u00e1tico (MASSA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a1No al genocidio en Gaza!<br>\u00a1No a las guerras, S\u00ed a la Vida!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Planeta Tierra, Comunidad Ahlan Muc\u2019ul Ha\u00b4\u2019. Chil\u00f3n, Chiapas<br>Domingo 27 de julio de 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Firmas colectivas:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Crianza Mutua M\u00e9xico parte del Tejido Global de Alternativas (TGA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Crianzas Mutuas Colombia parte del Tejido Global de Alternativas (TGA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Movimiento en Defensa de la Vida y el Territorio (MODEVITE), Chiapas, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Asociaci\u00f3n de Consejos Comunitarios del Municipio de Su\u00e1rez, Cauca, Colombia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gobierno Comunitario Chil\u00f3n, Chiapas, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cabildo Ind\u00edgena de Taganga, Santa Marta, Colombia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comunidad Ahlan Muc\u2019ul Ha\u2019, Chil\u00f3n, Chiapas, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pluriversidad Aut\u00f3noma Comunal Yutsilal Bahlumilal de Gobierno Comunitario Ch\u2019ich\u2019, Chiapas, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Movimiento de R\u00edos Vivos de Colombia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Corporaci\u00f3n de Chinchorreros de Taganga de Colombia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Proyecto de Educaci\u00f3n Alternativa (PEA),&nbsp; Regi\u00f3n Selva Ocosingo,&nbsp; Secci\u00f3n VII de la CNTE Chiapas, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Custodios del Agua del Sureste de Coahuila, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Misi\u00f3n de Bachaj\u00f3n, Chiapas, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Centro de Derechos Ind\u00edgenas A.C (CEDIAC), Chiapas, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colectivo Proyecto Videoastas Ind\u00edgenas de la Frontera Sur (PVIFS), Chiapas, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Foro Oaxaque\u00f1o del Agua, Oaxaca, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grupo de Trabajo \u201cCuerpos, Territorios, Resistencias\u201d \u2013 GT CUTER CLACSO<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colectivo S\u00ed a la Vida de Jalpa, Coahuila, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comunidad de Pedagogas(os) Cr\u00edticas(os) y Educadoras(es) Populares de Chiapas, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Universidad de la Tierra Huitzo Yelao, Oaxaca, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Centro Universitario Comunal de Guelatao de la Universidad Aut\u00f3noma Comunal de Oaxaca, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Observatorio de Participaci\u00f3n Social y Calidad Democr\u00e1tica de la Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Observatorio Ciudadano\/Comunitario del Agua y Medio Ambiente de los Valles Centrales de Oaxaca, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Observatorio de las democracias: sur de M\u00e9xico y Centroam\u00e9rica \u2013 ODEMCA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colectivo Tsijilba&nbsp; Bij de Agua Clara de Chiapas, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tejidos de Sanaci\u00f3n de Oaxaca\/Ciudad de M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Servicios Comunitarios de Oaxaca, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colectivo Kokopelli del Norte de Veracruz, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Centro Universitario Comunal de San Pedro Comitancillo de la Universidad Aut\u00f3noma Comunal de Oaxaca, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cooperativa Editorial de la Red Transnacional Otros Saberes, Chiapas, M\u00e9xico (RETOS).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colectivo Machtia (Espacios de Aprendizajes Libres) de Hidalgo, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Proyecto Silvestra: Ba\u00f1os Composteros de Oaxaca, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Satil Film, Chiapas, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Red Savi de la Mixteca de Oaxaca, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colectivos Nichimal Cuxlejalil (Floreciendo la vida), Chiapas, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Musiqueros Principales, Regi\u00f3n Ch\u2019ich\u2019, Chil\u00f3n, Chiapas, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ach\u2019ix Querem Ec\u2019 Chil\u00f3n, Chiapas, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tejido de Colectivos Universidad de la Tierra Caldas y Suroccidente Colombiano<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Encuentro Internacional en Defensa de la vida: el Ma\u00edz, el Agua, el Territorio y la Madre Tierra.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xutc_Odd13c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>[:en]<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From July 25 to 27, 250 people from 60 communities, organizations, and networks from different states in Mexico and other countries gathered in Chiapas at an International Encounter in Defense of Life: Corn, Water, the Territory, and Mother Earth. The purpose of the encounter was to share eorgaizational experiences in defense of life and to reflect collectively on how to confront the projects and mega-projects, as well as the militarization and organized crime, which pose a threat to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After three days of discussions, those present published a declaration in which they analyze the current situation experienced in the territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Declaratoria del Encuentro Internacional en Defensa de la Vida. Ahlan Muc\u00b4ul Ha\u00b4, Chi\u00f3n, Chiapas\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7KmNWrTxi0c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DECLARATION<\/strong><br><strong>YES TO LIFE, NO TO DEATH PROJECTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To local, national, and international civil society<br>To human rights organizations<br>To the States and governments of Planet Earth<br>To movements, dignified struggles, and rebellions<br>To the local, national, and international press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With 250 people present, members of 60 communities, organizations, and networks, we gathered on July 25, 26, and 27, 2025, in the community of Ahlan Muc\u2019ul Ha\u2019 (below the Rio Grande), in the municipality of Chil\u00f3n, Chiapas, Mexico, with the aim of sharing organizational and community experiences in resistance and in the defense of life, water, corn, territory, and Mother Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are women, men, young people, elders, children, recognizing our cultural, generational, spiritual, and gender diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We come from different territories of Mexico, such as Oaxaca, Coahuila, Veracruz, Hidalgo, Guerrero, Puebla, the State of Mexico, Chiapas, as well as Colombia, the Valencian Country, and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have come together to seek ways to confront these deadly projects by weaving together with greater strength the alternatives we are already building in each family, community, town, region, territory, organization, and struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>After three days of sharing and analyzing what is happening in our regions and in the world, WE DECLARE AND REAFFIRM that:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our territories have a great biocultural diversity that we have inherited from our ancestors, which is seriously endangered by an extractive development model that, under an individualistic, capitalist, and patriarchal logic, is stripping us of everything that gives us life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We recognize that we suffer the same threats: a) the violation of our rights as women, children, youth, young people, men, gender diversities, peoples, and Mother Earth; b) the militarization of our territories by different local, regional, and national security forces; and c) the presence of organized crime and its complicity with governments and states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We denounce that, in all our territories, projects are imposed on us without the consent of the peoples, and consultations are used as a tool to carry out and consummate the dispossession. We also denounce how institutional power and the powers that be systematically instigate community division in favor of capitalist companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a world that is exhausted, we know that our enemy is the same, and that is why we declare that we are not in favor of colonialist and patriarchal development because it has never worked for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>THANKS TO THE SHARING WE HAVE DONE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">we have heard firsthand about the struggle of the women and peoples of the municipalities that make up MODEVITE (Movement in Defense of Life and Territory), the Community Government of Chil\u00f3n, as well as their Autonomous Communal Pluriversity Yutsilal Bahlumilal-Ch&#8217;ich&#8217; Community Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MODEVITE has shared with us their experience of more than 10 years of resistance against the San Crist\u00f3bal de Las Casas-Palenque Highway, misnamed \u201cthe Highway of Cultures.\u201d This struggle resonated with the struggles of communities and civil society organizations in Oaxaca against the Interoceanic Corridor, the Margarita Maza de Ju\u00e1rez dam, and mining concessions. From southeastern Coahuila, they shared their resistance against an illegal and clandestine industrial toxic waste dump and their defense of the water of the San Miguel stream. Our sisters from Hidalgo shared their struggle against the solar park that is planned for the city of Sahag\u00fan and water contamination in Tula, coming from waste from the Mexico City metropolitan area. From northern Veracruz, participants denounced the government&#8217;s distribution of fertilizers and agrotoxins that are poisoning the land and the health of communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, we learned from Crianzas Mutuas Colombia about the defense of rivers in the municipality of Su\u00e1rez in the Cauca Valley. From the same country, we heard about the struggles of the Cabildo de Taganga, Santa Marta, carried out by fishing communities on the Colombian Atlantic coast who are fighting to defend their Maritorio (<em>fishing grounds)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have shared our pain, but also our hopes and strengths: our community organization woven through our normative systems, our spiritualities and ceremonies, as well as the collective community work that sustains the alternatives we pursue in our daily lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have woven our capacity to share and dream in the midst of the violence and wars that surround us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>WE DENOUNCE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the strategies of governments, political parties, business elites, and local caciques who seek to destabilize our community organizations in order to strip us of our territories for their capitalist interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We demand respect for our rights and those of our Mother Earth, as well as respect for the lives of the defenders of the territory and human rights who are fighting throughout Latin America and Planet Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We demand respect for the autonomy of indigenous peoples, Black people, and people of African descent, and that the decisions they make in the exercise of their self-determination be respected, as well as all their collective rights recognized in national and international law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We demand the immediate halt of megaprojects in our territories, of mega-highways and concessions that allow the dispossession of Mother Earth and the extraction of natural resources, imposing a colonialist model of development that does not come from our wisdom as indigenous peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We demand respect for women, youth, children, and gender diversity in general, and in particular for those of indigenous, ethnic, peasant, fishing, Black, and Afro-descendant communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We, the youth, demand our right to flourish in our own communities, contributing our skills and knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We stand in solidarity with the Colombian social movements that are protesting against transnational corporations that exploit gas and oil on the seabed, build dams that damage rivers, and engage in large-scale mining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We stand in solidarity with MODEVITE and all the collectives, communities, organizations, and networks fighting against extractive and predatory megaprojects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>FROM THIS SACRED MAYA TERRITORY, WE MAKE A STRONG CALL:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the indigenous peoples and local, national, and international civil society to accompany, in person or from afar, on August 9, 2025, International Day of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the pilgrimage called by the Believing People of the Jesuit Mission of Bachaj\u00f3n to show their rejection of the highway that will cross these indigenous Mayan territories, whose implementation has not respected the rights of indigenous peoples and which, together with the Interoceanic Corridor, the misnamed Maya Train, and the privatization of water, are part of the territorial reorganization of southeastern Mexico in the service of big capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We urge you to continue weaving together, through all the diverse means and forms available to us, our ancestral wisdom and our spiritualities to strengthen what we have in common in the search for peace with justice and dignity and in the defense of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We invite you to revalue the life of peasants and the communities that sow our food, as well as the defense of native seeds free of GMOs and the natural production of our food to recover the fertility of our lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We know that neither governments nor states will solve our problems, which is why we must continue walking together, weaving our knowledge and spiritualities for the respect of LIFE, beginning with our bodies, our territory, and our land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We call on all peoples and local, national, and international civil society to continue fighting with one heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>WE SALUTE AND EMBRACE<\/em> <em>OUR COMRADES OF:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The community of Cher\u00e1n <em>K&#8217;eri<\/em>. We say to you: You are not alone, and your struggle is our struggle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We support the struggle of <em>Jlumaltik <\/em>Candelaria for the recognition of her government and community autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We embrace the Zapatistas and the Encuentro de Resistencias y Rebeld\u00edas \u201cAlgunas Partes del Todo\u201d (Encounter of Resistance and Rebellion \u201cSome Parts of The Whole\u201d) convened by <em>them <\/em>in their territory to take place from August 2 to 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We support the struggle of the Organization Sociedad Civil Las Abejas for justice, peace and dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;We support the organizers of the Regional Forum in Defense of Territory and Autonomy against Megaprojects in Chontal and Istmo, to be held on August 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the International Congress on Communality in Oaxaca, to be held on August 7, 8, and 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the struggle of the education workers of the CNTE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To our sisters at the Jineoloj\u00ee Academy in Rojava, as well as the Modern Democratic Academy and the entire Kurdish women&#8217;s movement and the Democratic Confederalism of Kurdistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To our comrades who are part of the Global Network of Alternatives (TGA): Crianzas Mutuas Colombia, Vikalp Sangam of India, and the Movement for Alternatives and Solidarity in Southeast Asia (MASSA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">No to genocide in Gaza!<br>No to wars, Yes to Life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Planet Earth, Ahlan Muc\u2019ul Ha\u2019 Community. Chil\u00f3n, Chiapas<br>Sunday, July 27, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Collective signatures<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Crianza Mutua M\u00e9xico part of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Crianzas Mutuas Colombia part of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Movimiento en Defensa de la Vida y el Territorio, Chiapas, Mexico (Movement in Defense of Life and Territory &#8211; MODEVITE)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Association of Community Councils of the Municipality of Su\u00e1rez, Cauca, Colombia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gobierno Comunitario Chil\u00f3n, Chiapas (Chil\u00f3n Community Government)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indigenous Council of Taganga, Santa Marta, Colombia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ahlan Muc\u2019ul Ha\u2019 Community, Chil\u00f3n, Chiapas, Mexico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pluriversidad Aut\u00f3noma Comunal Yutsilal Bahlumilal de Gobierno Comunitario Ch&#8217;ich&#8217;, Chiapas, Mexico (Yutsilal Bahlumilal Autonomous Communal Pluriversity of Ch&#8217;ich&#8217; Community Government)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Movement of Living Rivers of Colombia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Corporation of Chinchorreros of Taganga, Colombia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Proyecto de Educaci\u00f3n Alternativa (PEA), Selva Ocosingo Region, Secci\u00f3n VII de la CNTE Chiapas, Mexico (Alternative Education Project of the National Coordinator of Education Workers)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Water Custodians of southeastern Coahuila, Mexico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bachaj\u00f3n Mission, Chiapas, Mexico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Centro de Derechos Ind\u00edgenas A.C, Chiapas, Mexico (Center for Indigenous Rights A.C.- CEDIAC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colectivo Proyecto Videoastas Ind\u00edgenas de la Frontera Sur, Chiapas, Mexico (Collective Project of Indigenous Videographers of the Southern Border &#8211; PVIFS).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Foro Oaxaque\u00f1o del Agua, Oaxaca, Mexico (Oaxacan Water Forum)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Working Group \u201cBodies, Territories, Resistances\u201d &#8211; GT CUTER CLACSO<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colectivo S\u00ed a la Vida, Jalpa Coahuila (Yes to Life Collective)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comunidad de Pedagogas(os) Cr\u00edticas(os) y Educadoras(es) Populares de Chiapas, M\u00e9xico (Community of Critical Pedagogues and Popular Educators of Chiapas)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Universidad de la Tierra Huitzo Yelao, Oaxaca, Mexico (Huitzo Yelao University of the Earth)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Centro Universitario Comunal de Guelatao de la Universidad Aut\u00f3noma Comunal de Oaxaca (Guelatao Community University Center of the Autonomous Communality University of Oaxaca, Mexico)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Observatorio de Participaci\u00f3n Social y Calidad Democr\u00e1tica de la Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico (Observatory of Social Participation and Democratic Quality of the University Iberoamericana Puebla)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Observatorio Ciudadano\/Comunitario del Agua y Medio Ambiente de los Valles Centrales de Oaxaca, Mexico (Observatory of Citizen\/Community on Water and the Environment in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Observatorio de las democracias: sur de M\u00e9xico y Centroam\u00e9rica &#8211; ODEMCA (Observatory of Democracies: Southern Mexico and Central America)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colectivo Tsijilba&nbsp; Bij de Agua Clara de Chiapas, Mexico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tejidos de Sanaci\u00f3n de Oaxaca\/CDMX (Healing Networks of Oaxaca\/Mexico City)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Servicios Comunitarios de Oaxaca, Mexico (Oaxaca Community Services)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kokopelli Collective of Northern Veracruz, Mexico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Centro Universitario Comunal de San Pedro Comitancillo de la Universidad Aut\u00f3noma Comunal de Oaxaca, Mexico (San Pedro Comitancillo Community University Center of the Autonomous Communality University of Oaxaca)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cooperativa Editorial de la Red Transnacional Otros Saberes (Transnational Network of Other Knowledge RETOS Publishing Cooperative \u2013 RETOS).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Machtia Collective of Hidalgo, Mexico (Free Learning)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Silvestra Project: Compost Toilets of Oaxaca, Mexico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Satil Film, Chiapas, Mexico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Savi Network of the Mixteca Region of Oaxaca, Mexico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colectivos Nichimal Cuxlejalil, Chiapas, Mexico (Flourishing life)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Musiqueros Principales, Regi\u00f3n Ch&#8217;ich\u2019, Chil\u00f3n, Chiapas, Mexico (Principal Musicians Collective)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ach&#8217;ix Querem Ec&#8217; Chil\u00f3n, Chiapas, M\u00e9xico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tejido de Colectivos Universidad de la Tierra Caldas y Suroccidente Colombiano (Network of Collectives of the University of the Earth, Caldas and the Colombian Southwest)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>[:]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:es] Del 25 al 27 de julio de 2025 se reunieron en Chiapas 250 personas de 60 comunidades, organizaciones y redes provenientes de diferentes estados de M\u00e9xico y de otros pa\u00edses para un Encuentro Internacional en Defensa de la Vida: el Ma\u00edz, el Agua, el Territorio y la Madre Tierra. El objetivo del encuentro fue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,6,958,954,190],"tags":[579,1061,978,255,56,567,147,912,483],"class_list":["post-51362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autonomia","category-chiapas","category-megaproyectos","category-mexico","category-radiozapatista","tag-agua","tag-crimen-organizado","tag-defensa-del-medioambiente","tag-despojo","tag-encuentros","tag-megaproyectos","tag-militarizacion","tag-narcoestado","tag-tierra-y-territorio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51370,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51362\/revisions\/51370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}