14/07/2018
In April, the Senate ratified the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership (TTP-11 or CPTPP), Mexico being the first country of those participating to do so.
SIPAZ – Quaterly Report
02/04/2018
SIPAZ Activities (mid-November, 2017 to mid-February, 2018)
02/04/2018
On January 2-, San Cristobal de las Casas received the lawyer and human rights defender Vidulfo Rosales Sierra, to give him the 2018 JTatic Samuel Jcanan Lum Recognition Award.
02/04/2018
From November - to 1-, 2017, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, indigenous from the Philippines and United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, paid an official visit to Mexico.
02/04/2018
In November, the General Law on Enforced Disappearances and Disappearances by Individuals was promulgated. The Movement for Our Disappeared affirmed that, "it is a sign of goodwill in the face of the magnitude of the disappearance crisis."
11/01/2018
SIPAZ Activities (From mid-August to mid-November, 2017)
11/01/2018
On September 7th, 2017, an earthquake measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale devastated Oaxaca, affecting the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and part of Chiapas, especially the coast: the two poorest states in the country.
11/01/2018
The conservation, recovery and care of natural resources concern us all, without distinction of country, continent, occupation, social class, race or religion: THE EARTH CANNOT TAKE MORE.
11/01/2018
On September 7th, shortly before midnight, there was an earthquake with an 8.2 magnitude on the Richter scale and with an epicenter in the Gulf of Tehuantepec, 143 kilometers southwest of Pijijiapan, Chiapas. The biggest damages were reported on the Chiapas coast and the Oaxaca area. On September 19th, there was another earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 degrees that severely affected the center of the country (Morelos, Puebla, the State of Mexico and Mexico City).
26/09/2017
On August 8th and 9th, in the framework of the 23rd anniversary of the Tlachinollan Mountain Human Rights Center, the Forum on forced disappearance "Against Pain and Fear: a Cry of Hope" took place in Chilpancingo.
26/09/2017
To date, 80 municipalities in 11 states in Mexico have established a Gender-Based Violence Alert (GVA) with the aim of promoting greater security for women and reducing the number of femicides that currently reach an average of seven women murdered per day throughout the country.
26/09/2017
From May 26th to 28th, the National Indigenous Congress (CNI in its Spanish acronym) was held to form the Indigenous Council of Government (CIG in its Spanish acronym) and to appoint its spokesperson who will be independent candidate for the presidency in 2018. 858 representatives of 58 indigenous peoples participated, guests, observers, as well as the general command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN in its Spanish acronym).
27/06/2017
SIPAZ ACTIVITIES (Start of April, 2016, to mid-May, 2017)
27/06/2017
From April 12th to 15th, the Critical Reflection Seminar "The Walls of Capital, the Cracks of the Left" convened by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) was held at Cideci-Unitierra in San Cristobal de Las Casas. Zapatista speakers, national and international intellectuals, and delegates of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI in its Spanish acronym) participated.
27/06/2017
December 2016 marked the tenth anniversary of the so-called "war on drugs" in Mexico, during which time thousands of Army, Air Force and Navy soldiers have been deployed on the streets to fight not only drug trafficking, but also organized crime in all its aspects: arms trafficking, money laundering, extortion, trafficking of people (including migrants), kidnapping, theft, etc.
27/06/2017
In the first months after Donald Trump took office as President of the United States, counterweights have been noted in the American political system that prevent him in the short term from making all his campaign promises public policy. Many of them would have an impact on Mexico first.