SIPAZ – Quaterly Report

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Tour of Marichuy and the CIG in Chiapas, Palenque, October 2017 © SIPAZ
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LATEST: Mexico – Strong Earthquakes Shake the Country

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).
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"Where are our children?", banner in the context of a mobilization against forced disappearances © SIPAZ Archive
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ARTICLE: Against pain and fear: a cry of hope. Forum on forced disappearance

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.
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Mobilization against femicides in Oaxaca © SIPAZ Archive, 2013
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FOCUS: Gender violence alerts: understanding the problem to be able to deal with it

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
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Pilgrimage of the Indigenous Movement of the Zoque Believing People in Defense of Life and the Earth in Tuxtla Gutierrez, June 2017 © SIPAZ
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LATEST: Mexico – Indigenous issues on the political agenda again?

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).
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ARTICLE: On the Chiapas Estate and the Neoliberal Capitalist System – Critical Reflection Seminar “The Walls of Capital, the Cracks of the Left”

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.
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FOCUS: Controversial interior Security Act proposal on the tenth anniversary of the war on drugs

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.
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Assembly of the Indigenous Council of Government for Mexico, San Cristobal de las Casas, May 2017 © SIPAZ
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LATEST: Mexico – Pressure from US and Human Rights Crises

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.
27/06/2017
14/04/2017
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SIPAZ accompanying the MODH in Tenosique, Tabasco © SIPAZ
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ARTICLE: Violations of Human Rights in Border Region between Guatemala and Mexico

In November, SIPAZ had the opportunity to participate in the International Human Rights Observation Mission on the Guatemala-Mexico Border (MODH in its Spanish acronym), convened by the Cross-Border Migration and Gender Coordination Board (MTMG in its Spanish acronym) to raise awareness of human rights violations in this region.
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FOCUS: National Indigenous Congress Proposal – “Echoes of Hope…”

On January 1, 2017, from the Caracol of Oventik, the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) publicly confirmed its decision to "to name an Indigenous Governing Council with men and women representatives from each one of the peoples, tribes, and nations that make up the CNI. (...) This council intends to govern this country. (...) This council will be presided over by an indigenous woman of the CNI, (...) which is to say, a woman of indigenous blood who knows her culture. This indigenous woman spokesperson from the CNI will be an independent candidate for the presidency of Mexico in the 2018 elections."
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Border between Mexico and the United States © Adolfo López Magaña
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LATEST: “Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States”

The night of November 8, 2016 shocked the whole world when, in spite of the forecasts and rejection by broad sectors both inside and outside the United States, Republican candidate Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election.
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09/01/2017
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Convergence in the Border, October 2016 © SIPAZ
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ARTICLE: “WE DID NOT CROSS THE BORDER, THE BORDER CROSSED US!”

In October, SIPAZ had the privilege of traveling to the northern border (Mexico / United States) to participate in a binational Convergence and a tour where we had the opportunity to give presentations about the current socio-political context in southern Mexico, and had meetings with social actors, collectives, networks and human rights organizations in the states of Arizona, Michigan, Chicago, the District of Colombia, and Texas.
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Working Group in Xochicuautla, State of Mexico, September 2016 © Tania Romero
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IN FOCUS: Companies, Government and Human Rights in Mexico – Between Business and Dispossession

From August 29th to September 7th, two representatives of the United Nations (UN) Working Group (WG) on Business and Human Rights, Pavel Sulyandziga (Russia) and Dante Pesce (Chile), made an official visit to Mexico that included the states of Mexico, Jalisco, Oaxaca, and Sonora.
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