31/03/2005
In January, during his visit to Chiapas, from the very heart of the “conflict zone,” President Vicente Fox claimed that the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National […]
SIPAZ – Quaterly Report
31/03/2005
‘Autonomy is the work. That the people have the choice to exercise their rights. It is a way of fighting, fair and sensible. Working on health […]
31/03/2005
The Fifth World Social Forum (WSF) was held last January 26th-31st in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It coincided for the first time with the World Economic Forum […]
31/03/2005
Contacts, international presence, and accompainment During February and March, we met at least one time with each of the five Zapatista Councils of Good Government, primarily […]
30/12/2004
‘No Payment’ For Electricity And The ‘Better Life Tariff’
30/12/2004
© SIPAZ Sunday, November 21st: The day begins cloudy and the street slowly starts to fill with people who gather in front of the entrance to […]
30/12/2004
ACCOMPANIMENT In October and November, we met with the Councils of Good Government of the five Zapatista “caracoles“. We carried out election observation in the Chenalhó […]
30/12/2004
On October 3rd elections were held in Chiapas in order to select 118 municipal presidents and 40 local representatives for the State Congress.
30/09/2004
Chiapas presently finds itself in a pre-election context given that on October 3, 118 municipal mayors and 40 state deputies will be elected. In spite of […]
30/09/2004
This place that you mention in your dreams, continues on, where it always has been. But the rain still hasn’t arrived to wash the ashes and […]
30/09/2004
“It is not that the conflict that exists in Chiapas has been resolved, or that it has lost its importance. It is that peace will not […]
30/09/2004
ACCOMPANIMENT In August we participated in an observation caravan in the Montes Azules Biosphere (Jungle region). Also in August, we attended the first anniversary party of […]
30/06/2004
Certainly, Chiapas no longer occupies the first pages of national newspapers like it did in the first years after the armed uprising of the Zapatista Army […]
30/06/2004
The Facts of the Conflict Last April 10th, Zapatista supporters from the Highlands of Chiapas suffered an ambush by members of the PRD (Party of the […]
30/06/2004
“Only when you have cut the last tree, fished the last fish and contaminated the last river, will you realize that you can’t eat money”– Native […]
30/06/2004
Human Rights Observation During the last month the Puppet group “Diversity“, in which SIPAZ participates, preformed its pieces about the value of diversity and reconciliation in […]