05/09/2014
While the structural reforms that have been promoted by President Enrique Peña Nieto continue to advance through the approval of secondary laws (particularly in the energy […]
SIPAZ – Quaterly Report
21/05/2014
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Northern Zone At the beginning of April, we visited communities below Tila and in Palenque for a week, holding interviews with […]
21/05/2014
“The international organizations that engage in accompaniment are vital for the work of human-rights defenders […] given that they not only accompany […]
21/05/2014
“All the methods that [indigenous] peoples traditionally use to judge crimes committed against their members should be respected.” Article 9.1 of […]
21/05/2014
One of the most relevant happenings in the past months has been the arrest of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, “El Chapo,” the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, […]
21/02/2014
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Northern Zone On 6 and 7 December, we attended the pre-audience of the People’s Permanent Tribunal (TPP) Mexico chapter, part of […]
21/02/2014
“Amidst the power of the transnational firms and the governments allied and complicit with these, […] it is necessary that we have […]
21/02/2014
Tyempä Cha’an Ysacla’tiel Melelä (Ch’ol)Tsomblej yu’un melelil xchi´uk lekil chapanel (Tsotsil)Tzoblej ye´un xcholel chápanel sol´ jmelelil (Tseltal) On 6 and 7 December 2013, the Mexican State […]
21/02/2014
At the beginning of 2013, several analysts used the expression “the Mexican moment” in reference to the expectations generated by the change in federal administration. The […]
26/11/2013
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Northern Zone In September, we carried out a one-week visit to the Northern Zone. We attended an assembly organized by the […]
26/11/2013
“All of our rights were washed away by the rains” – member of a civil organization in Guerrero The state of Guerrero was cut off for […]
26/11/2013
As a number of reports have illustrated in recent months, the situation of violence against women in Mexico is far from being resolved. These reports speak […]
26/11/2013
On 1 September the Mexican federal government submitted its First Report, a document that identifies a number of challenges the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) seeks […]
04/09/2013
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Nothern Zone At the beginning of June, we carried out a visit to Palenque and Salto de Agua with a representative […]
04/09/2013
We are the Indians who we are, peoples, Indians. We want to continue to be the Indians we are; We want to […]
04/09/2013
“We know that the problems of looting of land and natural resources which occur throughout Latin America and within Mexico correspond to […]