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  1. when the huzz isnt friendless but the pmo is endless #chipsahoy

  2. Press Release from MODEVITE on the Palenque -San Cristóbal Highway

    We, the Tseltal, Tsotsil Indigenous peoples, and the mestizo community, express our opposition to the Palenque–San Cristóbal de las Casas Highway project in Chiapas, and to the construction of the first stretch from Palenque to Ocosingo, as it violates our right to self-determination, to our territory, to live in harmony with nature, and to a healthy, safe, and sustainable environment. We want to make it clear that from its inception, this highway has been a discriminatory, racist, and exclusionary project aimed against those of us who work the land and inhabit the territory.

    The Palenque–San Cristóbal de las Casas highway project is not new—it has been proposed since the administration of Chiapas Governor Juan Sabines Guerrero (2006–2012), in collaboration with the Federal Government. Although it has been justified under the guise of “development,” the highway has not been built thanks to the resistance of organized communities that emerged due to the lack of official information and transparency about the project.

    In this current administration, the present governor, Eduardo Ramírez, has revived this construction project, and in alliance with the federal government, it has now become one of the most significant projects in the country.

    Eduardo Ramírez stated to the media that he would not carry out the construction of the highway without first consulting the people and Indigenous communities. Therefore, on February 17, 2025, the “Guidelines for Conducting Public Consultations Related to Strategic Development Projects in the State of Chiapas” were published in the Official State Gazette, inventing a participation mechanism called a “Public Consultation.”

    The so-called “Public Consultation,” according to the government’s published Guidelines, is a mechanism through which people can decide whether or not they agree with the implementation of projects that the government classifies as “strategic development.” These Consultations are overseen by the governor himself and the General Secretariat of Government and Mediation, without including specialized authorities such as the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI).

    Thus, on March 23 of this year, a Public Consultation was held regarding the first stretch of construction—from Palenque to Ocosingo—in the municipalities of Chilón, Salto de Agua, Palenque, and Ocosingo. In this consultation, the authorities did not respect our right to access environmental, social, cultural, or project execution information. The communities were not informed in advance; the invitation was only shared via social media, failing to reach the many communities where there is no cell phone or telephone service. Furthermore, polling stations were only placed in municipal centers—between two and six per location. We witnessed serious irregularities, including people who were not from the municipality being allowed to vote, thus making decisions about land that is not theirs. The true owners of the land, and those most directly affected, were not taken into account.

    Once again, the bad government directly discriminates against the Indigenous peoples who inhabit this region. Racism and contempt for Indigenous communities persist, even after the constitutional reform to Article 2, which recognizes our right to consultation and self-determination.

    In response to the repeated violations of our human rights, today, March 31, 2025, we have filed two legal injunctions (amparos): one against the guidelines for conducting public consultations, because they are unconstitutional; and another for violating our right to a free, prior, informed, culturally appropriate, and good-faith consultation, which is part of our right to self-determination. We have also decided to exercise our right to petition by submitting requests for information to the Governor of the State, to the Head of the General Secretariat of Government and Mediation, and to the Secretariat of Infrastructure of the State of Chiapas. We demand that they make public the information on the environmental, cultural, and social impacts related to the construction of the Palenque–San Cristóbal highway and the stretch from Palenque to Ocosingo, so that we may freely and informedly decide the future of our territory, ensuring care and respect for our Mother Earth.

    Finally, we inform society in general that, based on our right to decide on our own development, the preservation of our cultural and ancestral heritage, our territory, health, equality, self-determination, and autonomy, we—the original peoples—have signed the Declaration of Peoples Free from Megaprojects, a document that represents our collective decision to resist the government’s imposition of a project that violates our rights and threatens the life of our communities.

    The land is not for sale—it is cared for and defended.

    Movement in Defense of Life and Territory (MODEVITE)
    Community Government of Chilón
    Communities organized for the defense of territory

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    #chiapas #mexico #modevite #northAmerica #resistance

  3. Press Release from MODEVITE on the Palenque -San Cristóbal Highway

    We, the Tseltal, Tsotsil Indigenous peoples, and the mestizo community, express our opposition to the Palenque–San Cristóbal de las Casas Highway project in Chiapas, and to the construction of the first stretch from Palenque to Ocosingo, as it violates our right to self-determination, to our territory, to live in harmony with nature, and to a healthy, safe, and sustainable environment. We want to make it clear that from its inception, this highway has been a discriminatory, racist, and exclusionary project aimed against those of us who work the land and inhabit the territory.

    The Palenque–San Cristóbal de las Casas highway project is not new—it has been proposed since the administration of Chiapas Governor Juan Sabines Guerrero (2006–2012), in collaboration with the Federal Government. Although it has been justified under the guise of “development,” the highway has not been built thanks to the resistance of organized communities that emerged due to the lack of official information and transparency about the project.

    In this current administration, the present governor, Eduardo Ramírez, has revived this construction project, and in alliance with the federal government, it has now become one of the most significant projects in the country.

    Eduardo Ramírez stated to the media that he would not carry out the construction of the highway without first consulting the people and Indigenous communities. Therefore, on February 17, 2025, the “Guidelines for Conducting Public Consultations Related to Strategic Development Projects in the State of Chiapas” were published in the Official State Gazette, inventing a participation mechanism called a “Public Consultation.”

    The so-called “Public Consultation,” according to the government’s published Guidelines, is a mechanism through which people can decide whether or not they agree with the implementation of projects that the government classifies as “strategic development.” These Consultations are overseen by the governor himself and the General Secretariat of Government and Mediation, without including specialized authorities such as the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI).

    Thus, on March 23 of this year, a Public Consultation was held regarding the first stretch of construction—from Palenque to Ocosingo—in the municipalities of Chilón, Salto de Agua, Palenque, and Ocosingo. In this consultation, the authorities did not respect our right to access environmental, social, cultural, or project execution information. The communities were not informed in advance; the invitation was only shared via social media, failing to reach the many communities where there is no cell phone or telephone service. Furthermore, polling stations were only placed in municipal centers—between two and six per location. We witnessed serious irregularities, including people who were not from the municipality being allowed to vote, thus making decisions about land that is not theirs. The true owners of the land, and those most directly affected, were not taken into account.

    Once again, the bad government directly discriminates against the Indigenous peoples who inhabit this region. Racism and contempt for Indigenous communities persist, even after the constitutional reform to Article 2, which recognizes our right to consultation and self-determination.

    In response to the repeated violations of our human rights, today, March 31, 2025, we have filed two legal injunctions (amparos): one against the guidelines for conducting public consultations, because they are unconstitutional; and another for violating our right to a free, prior, informed, culturally appropriate, and good-faith consultation, which is part of our right to self-determination. We have also decided to exercise our right to petition by submitting requests for information to the Governor of the State, to the Head of the General Secretariat of Government and Mediation, and to the Secretariat of Infrastructure of the State of Chiapas. We demand that they make public the information on the environmental, cultural, and social impacts related to the construction of the Palenque–San Cristóbal highway and the stretch from Palenque to Ocosingo, so that we may freely and informedly decide the future of our territory, ensuring care and respect for our Mother Earth.

    Finally, we inform society in general that, based on our right to decide on our own development, the preservation of our cultural and ancestral heritage, our territory, health, equality, self-determination, and autonomy, we—the original peoples—have signed the Declaration of Peoples Free from Megaprojects, a document that represents our collective decision to resist the government’s imposition of a project that violates our rights and threatens the life of our communities.

    The land is not for sale—it is cared for and defended.

    Movement in Defense of Life and Territory (MODEVITE)
    Community Government of Chilón
    Communities organized for the defense of territory

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    #chiapas #mexico #modevite #northAmerica #resistance

  4. Für Interessierte an dem Zapatista-Treffen 2025 und/oder dem Einsatz als Menschrechtsbeobachter*in #CAREA #Vorbereitungstreffen #chiapas98 chiapas.eu/news.php?id=12661

  5. Listen — Zapatista

    To the artistic and intellectual community of Mexico and the World:

    Listen… We know you are busy with Trump, but -I don’t know if you have noticed-, things are happening that would terrify the most grounded.  They are not isolated or extraordinary events, they are frequent, daily, “common”, “normal”.

    Here we remember that in the past you used to organize and participate in concerts, exhibitions, auctions, raffles, articles and round tables to support the indigenous peoples.

    We do not deny that we are no longer fashionable, nor that some of you found shelter and salary in the 4T or in the equivalents in your geographies.

    But there are noble, just, true causes, right here, in the house across the street, around the corner, an hour away from the hustle and bustle of the city.  A girl, a boy, a girl, a young girl, a young man, an adult, a woman, someone behaving himself, disappears.  But someone remembers him, someone misses him, someone needs him, someone is looking for him.

    The searchers’ collectives are not in the budget (although now they are trying to “buy” these people off by giving them a government post), they do not receive daily attention from the media, although their work is daily and has been going on for years, many, several administrations.  And it is necessary to open the crack of terror that defines the daily life of this nation as a real nightmare, so that people turn their eyes to them.  Yes, it will only be for a few days… until a new scandal covers the current one.

    Unless you believe the same as the leader of the Senate (who maintains that in reality it could be a garage sale, or a business selling half-used shoes and clothes, and not the clothes of hundreds of murdered people), you must be moved by the testimonies, the images, the screams, the candles, the clumsy declarations of the authorities, their lack of empathy, their bet that this country is already armored against horror, death, and cynicism.

    This cause, the one of searching and finding missing persons, is not a partisan cause.  Moreover, these collectives have made an effort to keep out the coyotes and vultures of the political parties and acronyms that accompany them.

    It is something human, or it should be.  So, why not a campaign where the arts and the thinking are present in the face of that horror, yes, but also in the face of the nobility and dignity of those who seek truth and justice?

    Ok, we know that you have planned your vacations, tours, engagements, birthdays, weddings, that the weather, the cold, the heat, the rain; but one day, just one day in which the arts and thought manifest themselves and let those searching people know that, at least, they have already found humanity in those of us who have this geography, Mexico, as a space of pain, of shame… and of struggle.

    These people, men and women, are not looking for money (something that Mr. Beltrones will never understand), nor a position (although there is no lack of vultures around them), something that the 4T does not understand.

    They are looking for their loved ones, the ones they are missing.

    And whether they find them or not, they should have the satisfaction of having made us ALL see that these absentees are also our absentees.

    Each one with his own, in his own geography, in his own way, with his knowledge, imagination, creativity.  A day to embrace those who search tirelessly.  A little light for those who seek to break the night of oblivion.  A day at least to remind them and remind us that shame, empathy, anger, dignity are also human.

    So brothers and sisters of the Arts and Thought, if you keep silent now, nothing and no one will be able to find you.

    From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.

    On behalf of the Zapatista girls, boys, women, other women, men and elders.

    Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.
    Mexico, March 2025.

    Original text ublished by Enlace Zapatista on March 17th, 2025.

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    #chiapas #ezln #mexico #northAmerica #subcomandanteMarcos #zapatista

  6. Listen — Zapatista

    To the artistic and intellectual community of Mexico and the World:

    Listen… We know you are busy with Trump, but -I don’t know if you have noticed-, things are happening that would terrify the most grounded.  They are not isolated or extraordinary events, they are frequent, daily, “common”, “normal”.

    Here we remember that in the past you used to organize and participate in concerts, exhibitions, auctions, raffles, articles and round tables to support the indigenous peoples.

    We do not deny that we are no longer fashionable, nor that some of you found shelter and salary in the 4T or in the equivalents in your geographies.

    But there are noble, just, true causes, right here, in the house across the street, around the corner, an hour away from the hustle and bustle of the city.  A girl, a boy, a girl, a young girl, a young man, an adult, a woman, someone behaving himself, disappears.  But someone remembers him, someone misses him, someone needs him, someone is looking for him.

    The searchers’ collectives are not in the budget (although now they are trying to “buy” these people off by giving them a government post), they do not receive daily attention from the media, although their work is daily and has been going on for years, many, several administrations.  And it is necessary to open the crack of terror that defines the daily life of this nation as a real nightmare, so that people turn their eyes to them.  Yes, it will only be for a few days… until a new scandal covers the current one.

    Unless you believe the same as the leader of the Senate (who maintains that in reality it could be a garage sale, or a business selling half-used shoes and clothes, and not the clothes of hundreds of murdered people), you must be moved by the testimonies, the images, the screams, the candles, the clumsy declarations of the authorities, their lack of empathy, their bet that this country is already armored against horror, death, and cynicism.

    This cause, the one of searching and finding missing persons, is not a partisan cause.  Moreover, these collectives have made an effort to keep out the coyotes and vultures of the political parties and acronyms that accompany them.

    It is something human, or it should be.  So, why not a campaign where the arts and the thinking are present in the face of that horror, yes, but also in the face of the nobility and dignity of those who seek truth and justice?

    Ok, we know that you have planned your vacations, tours, engagements, birthdays, weddings, that the weather, the cold, the heat, the rain; but one day, just one day in which the arts and thought manifest themselves and let those searching people know that, at least, they have already found humanity in those of us who have this geography, Mexico, as a space of pain, of shame… and of struggle.

    These people, men and women, are not looking for money (something that Mr. Beltrones will never understand), nor a position (although there is no lack of vultures around them), something that the 4T does not understand.

    They are looking for their loved ones, the ones they are missing.

    And whether they find them or not, they should have the satisfaction of having made us ALL see that these absentees are also our absentees.

    Each one with his own, in his own geography, in his own way, with his knowledge, imagination, creativity.  A day to embrace those who search tirelessly.  A little light for those who seek to break the night of oblivion.  A day at least to remind them and remind us that shame, empathy, anger, dignity are also human.

    So brothers and sisters of the Arts and Thought, if you keep silent now, nothing and no one will be able to find you.

    From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.

    On behalf of the Zapatista girls, boys, women, other women, men and elders.

    Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.
    Mexico, March 2025.

    Original text ublished by Enlace Zapatista on March 17th, 2025.

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    #chiapas #ezln #mexico #northAmerica #subcomandanteMarcos #zapatista