In 2005, SIPAZ decided to expand its work to include Oaxaca and Guerrero, southeastern states that together with Chiapas, represent the poorest states of Mexico. In both places, we can find the same structural causes which provoked the uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas: economic, social and political marginalization; discrimination and racism cultivated throughout centuries of internal and external colonialism; militarization, repression and human rights violations.
At that time national and international attention was focused on Chiapas, while in other states, such as Oaxaca and Guerrero, social, campesino and indigenous organizations continued to suffer threats, violence and militarization without many voices denouncing these crimes, leaving the door open to political impunity.
Although Oaxaca and Guerrero have gained greater visibility in recent years, the structural violence that prevails in both states is often overshadowed by the more direct violence that lacerates Northern Mexico. This is why SIPAZ still considers it strategic to make visible the causes, consequences, and the responses to the political-social conflicts in those states so as to sensitize and mobilize the local, national and international communities in the search for nonviolent responses. SIPAZ doesn’t want to just report exclusively on contexts where repression remains a constant, but also sees it useful to raise awareness on alternative processes in each of these states, as well as to encourage them to know one another.

06/02/2012

MIGRATION

Migration is a strong phenomenon: Guerrero has the highest level of internal migration and is fifth in terms of international migration. According to the Mexican General […]
06/02/2012

S.I. 5 – Land

Land: a conflict of visions The concept of land held by the indigenous peoples is different from that of the mestizo population. The indigenous peoples continue […]
06/02/2012

S.I. 4 – Health

Guerrero is the third lowest state in Mexico in regards to the right to health services, with 53.3% (INEGI 2010). In Guerrero there are 1.4 doctors […]
06/02/2012

S.I. 3 – Education

In Guerrero, many people, especially the indigenous, and even more so women, are unable to exercise their right to an education for many reasons. Poverty forces […]
06/02/2012

S.I. 2 – Housing

Guerrero has a high level of marginalization in respect to the inadequacy of its housing: 19.58% of housing does not have drainage nor toilets. 4.38% of […]
06/02/2012

S.I. 1 – Incomes

54.94% of the families earn less than two monthly minimum wages. The average remuneration received by each worker per year in Guerrero is 66,222 Mexican pesos, […]
03/01/2012

2011

9 January: members of the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposed to the La Parota Dam (CECOP) reinstall the blockade in the community of Parotillas, to […]
03/01/2011

2010

5 January 2010: Agents of the Ministerial Investigative Police detain Rodrigo Morales Valtierra, member of the community radio Radio Ñomndaa “The voice of water,” in Xochistlahuaca. […]
04/01/2010

2009

22 January 2009: The five incarcerated members of the Indigenous Me’phaa Peoples Organization (OPIM), accused of killing Alegandro Feliciano on January 1st 2008 , file for […]
02/01/2009

2008

7 January 2008: Residents of the communities of Atoyaquillo and Pasto Real, including widows, mothers and survivors of the Aguas Blancas massacre, protest in front of […]
02/01/2008

2007

6 January 2007: David Salgado Aranda, from the municipality of Tlapa, dies when struck down by a tractor while picking tomatoes in fields run by the […]