07/02/2013
In more than one sense, 2012 was a transition year in the case of Chiapas. For the first time in this state, federal and local elections […]
21/01/2013
13 and 14 January: The first Meeting of National Members of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD) is held in Mexico City. Among […]
18/01/2012
The strategy of the campaign against drug-trafficking initiated in 2007 which, according to President Felipe Calderón, “is not a war,” has resulted as of the end […]
03/01/2012
2 January: a communique posted in the Web-page of “Enlace Zapatista” strongly denies that the EZLN or “La Otra Campaña” (The Other Campaign) participated in the […]
03/01/2011
While there is growing talk of “war in Mexico” both within and outside the country, this refers not to the unresolved armed conflict in Chiapas, but […]
03/01/2011
13 January The federal Congress sets the direction for the work of the COCOPA (Commission for Negotiation and Peace), a body of legislators created in 1995 […]
29/01/2010
From the 31st of December 2008 to the 5th of January 2009 the First Global Festival of Justified Rage is celebrated. The fifteenth anniversary of the […]
04/01/2010
In 2009, Mexico came to occupy center-stage in international news due to the violence associated with organized crime as well as the H1N1 influenza epidemic. Internally, however, […]
02/01/2009
At the national level, 2008 was marked by a general increase in the prices of basic goods, gasoline, and electricity. These price-increases were exacerbated by the total […]
01/01/2009
January 1 The provisions for agriculture in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) come into force, eliminating import taxes on basic grains like corn and […]
02/01/2008
In December, subcomandante Marcos Publisher a communiqué titled “Feeling Red: The Calendar and Geography of War” (“Sentir el rojo; el calendario y la geografía de la […]
01/01/2008
30 December 2006 – 2 January 2007 The First Encounter between the Zapatistas and the Peoples of the World is held in Caracol 2, Oventik in […]
02/01/2007
On July 2nd, federal elections were held in Mexico. Due to the minimal margin between the two leading candidates, the announcement of the winner was not […]
01/01/2007
January 1st The “Other Campaign” begins. A number of commanders and thousands of people from the support bases of the EZLN arrive in San Cristóbal de […]
02/01/2006
In January, during his visit to Chiapas, President Vicente Fox claimed that the EZLN is an issue that “now essentially remains in the past and everyone […]
30/12/2005
January 1st On the eve of January 1, the date that the new municipal authorities take power after the elections in October 2004, demonstrations are held, […]