25/08/2016
Las manifestaciones del movimiento magisterial en exigencia de una mesa de diálogo con la Secretaria de gobernación (Segob) se han enmarcado en un contexto de escalada de violencia represiva.
SIPAZ – Quaterly Report
25/08/2016
En los últimos meses, las protestas contra la reforma educativa han adquirido fuerza en muchas partes del país, sobre todo en los estados de Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero y Michoacán.
25/08/2016
Miles de mujeres juntas en las calles, ropa violeta, mantas y consignas por doquier. Mítines, actuaciones musicales, performances y talleres.
25/08/2016
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT Chiapas Northern Region In April, we were present at the ejido of Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, municipality of Salto de Agua, where an […]
02/06/2016
SIPAZ Activities (Beginning of January to end of March 2016)
02/06/2016
Following news of the arrest of Rosendo Radilla in 1974, his family began to search for him immediately. His wife and daughters combed government offices, prisons and hospitals. When they did not find him, they made public complaints, organized marches, meetings and protests as methods of pressure to demand the appearance of Rosendo.
02/06/2016
The news about the forced disappearance of the 43 students from the Isidro Burgos Teacher Training School in Ayotzinapa that happened in Iguala, Gerrero, on the night of September 26 to 27, 2014, has gone around the world. The so-called "Iguala Case" placed the theme of forced disappearance in the country in the media spotlight and today it is known that Ayotzinapa is only the most visible face of this problem. "Mexico is a huge mass grave", Javier Sicilia, member of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD in its Spanish acronym), declared in 2014, following the discovery of hidden graves across the Republic.
02/06/2016
At the beginning of 2016, two topics took up the forefront of the national media: the arrest of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman", founder of the Sinaloa cartel, who had been on the run since July 2015, and the visit of Pope Francis to Mexico from February 12th to 17th. The re-capture of "El Chapo" was widely celebrated by the Mexican Government. Nevertheless, according to the Attorney General of the United States, although it represents an "assertion of law enforcement", Guzman was no longer an active player and the infrastructure of the Sinaloa cartel remained intact.
21/03/2016
SIPAZ ACTIVITIES (from mid-August to the end of December, 2015)
21/03/2016
The twentieth anniversary of the International Service for Peace (SIPAZ) in Mexico marked a great moment to reflect on and compile lessons learned after two decades of accompaniment to organized groups and peoples in the struggle for land and territory, justice, truth, and peace. Conscious of the fact that the most visible roles in organizational processes tend to be occupied by men, we believe it pertinent to elaborate material specifically about the situation of women and their participation in social struggles, avoiding the risk that the part they have played becomes watered down or relegated to second place as it has often happened. "Fighting With the Heart of a Woman " - The situation and participation of women in Chiapas (1995-2015)", arose from this, a diagnostic of the main changes of the last twenty years.
21/03/2016
At the end of November of 2015, the team and Board of Directors of the International Service for Peace (SIPAZ), together with more than 30 participants from different parts of Mexico and overseas, celebrated our 20th anniversary of presence in the south of Mexico. Although the permanence of SIPAZ for 20 years, despite the challenges that had to be faced can be seen as an achievement, it is still alarming that an international presence for peace is still necessary after this length of time. Even though, from this perspective there isn't much to celebrate, with two decades of existence of SIPAZ, we thought that we have great capital to share about what we have learned along the path. As Ana Maria Garcia of Services for an Alternative Education (Servicios para una Educación Alternativa - EDUCA), Oaxaca, who gave a presentation at the event, "we are not celebrating that [fact that] the reality is the same but that we continue struggling with hope and dignity."
21/03/2016
In March of 2015, the report of the United Nations Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the High Commission noted the generalized character of torture and impunity had been seriously questioned by Mexican diplomacy. The second semester of 2015 was equally marked by reports and declarations which were critical of the different high level instances regarding the human rights situation in the country.
06/09/2015
ACCOMPANIMENT AND INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE CHIAPAS Highlands On July 22nd, we participated in the monthly commemoration of the Massacre of Acteal, where 45 people were murdered in […]
06/09/2015
“We must imagine how a new society might be.[…] There are many answers, many ways, many forms.And each of us will see what we are able […]
06/09/2015
“Because now, as for some time already, we see lights being lit in many corners.They are lights of rebellion and resistance.Sometimes they are small, like ours.Sometimes […]
06/09/2015
At nearly a year of the severe and unfortunate events in Iguala, when 43 students from the Raul Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa were […]