Police arrested 9 indigenous Otomi occupiers of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples, shortly after the government agreed to take down 3 properties for a community housing project. The Zapatista-aligned indigenous community expressed that the occupation would continue to occur until the dropping of all charges and release of all detained Otomi.
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As the mayor of Chignautla is set to make water a privatized utility, citizens of the municipality have taken to the streets to make their voices heard. On Monday, protestors busted down the doors of town hall and set the building ablaze. Demonstrations have continued into Tuesday, with the protestors blocking traffic on the highway. The mayor has denied that […]
Members of the Otomi indigenous central Mexican group occupied the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples and burnt files and furniture of the building. The reason cited was that the government failed to accept their demands to end pro-corporate megaprojects in Santiago Mexquititlán. Members of the Otomi indigenous central Mexican group occupied the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples and burnt files […]
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Fresnillo, in the Zacatecas state of Mexico, and burned down government monuments & buildings as well as the town hall, after the murder of 12-year-old Sofia. She was lured out of her house on the 12th of November, and found dead with signs of torture, the latest face of femicide in Mexico. Map of the […]
Protesters gathered in the hundreds in Mexico City to demonstrate against the state’s war on the Zapatistas via funding of paramilitaries to attack harvest storage facilities and imprisonment of Zapatista figures. The following day, a political prisoner with allegiance to the EZLN was released by the Mexican government. Protesters gathered in the hundreds in Mexico City to demonstrate against the […]