Chiapas Communities Reject Adventure Tourist Project ** Foresee construction of lodging on the lakeshore ** For the indigenous, the current management of visitors is self-sufficient, they say By: Hermann Bellinghausen Laguna (Lake) Miramar, Chiapas, May 26, 2012 The large and beautiful lake (above) that marks a boundary of the Montes Azules is the new goal [...]
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Chiapas Communities Reject Adventure Tourism Project
Posted: May 29, 2012 in Chiapas Tourism, CounterinsurgencyTags: Laguna Miramar, Lake Miramar
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Chiapas Tourism Development Aimed At US Market
Posted: April 27, 2012 in Chiapas Tourism, CounterinsurgencyTags: Mesoamerica, Mundo Maya, Tourism
Chiapas Tourism Development Aimed at US Market By: Mary Ann Tenuto The photograph below suggests a story waiting to be told. It shows indigenous women next to their makeshift plastic tent on the plaza in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. The women are occupying a space on the plaza in front of the [...]
Las Abejas Remember the Acteal Massacre
Posted: December 25, 2011 in Counterinsurgency, Las AbejasTags: acteal
Neither Calderón Nor Sabines Want to Do Justice for the Massacre in Acteal, Las Abejas Points Out ** That is the only path that will bring us peace, warns Bishop Raúl Vera during a mass ** 14 years after the 49 murders no intellectual or material author has been punished By: Hermann Bellinghausen, Envoy Acteal, [...]
Child of Hunger Strikers Dies
Posted: November 6, 2011 in Counterinsurgency, EZLNTags: other campaign, political prisoners
A Child Dies In Chiapas While His Parents Fast For Freedom; Hunger Strike Reaches Critical Point On September 29, 11 indigenous prisoners in 3 Chiapas state prisons started a hunger strike and fast, demanding their freedom. Two more joined the fast and two others were released, leaving 5 on a total hunger strike and 6 [...]
Worldwide Declaration in Support of Zapatistas in San Marcos Avilés
Posted: October 10, 2011 in Counterinsurgency, EZLNTags: international solidarity, San Marcos Avilés
Dear Friends, The Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba)and the Movement for Justice for the Barrio in New York are once again requesting signatures to a Worldwide Statement in in Support of the Zapatista Support Bases in San Marcos Avilés, Chiapas, Mexico. The Chiapas Support Committee is collecting signatures. We will send [...]
Paramilitaries Surround Zapatista Village and Threaten to Kill Everyone
Posted: September 14, 2011 in Counterinsurgency, EZLN, Zapatista ReportingTags: Chiapas, EZLN, Mexico, Zapatistas
para leer en español: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/09/14/politica/021n1pol Paramilitaries Surround Zapatista Village and Threaten to Kill Everyone, the Junta denounces ** We will defend our land against whatever takes place, the autonomous authorities of San Patricio warn By: Hermann Bellinghausen, Envoy San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, September 13 The Good Government Junta (Junta) New Seed That Is Going [...]
Junta Demands That Invaders Leave Monte Redondo Lands, In Chiapas
Posted: August 4, 2011 in Counterinsurgency, EZLNTags: Chiapas, EZLN, Mexico, Zapatistas
Junta Demands That Invaders Leave Monte Redondo Lands, In Chiapas Para leer en español: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/08/04/politica/022n1pol ** It asserts that state authorities and ejido owners provoke EZLN support bases ** It places responsibility on members of the PAN, PRI, PRD and PVEM for covering up the aggressions By: Hermann Bellinghausen The Good Government Junta (Junta) Towards [...]
