31/05/1999
Working together with Mexican civil society groups, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) organized a national referendum on indigenous rights on March 21. Before the […]
SIPAZ Report Vol. IV N° 2 – May 1999
SUMMARY: Recommended Actions
UPDATE I: Chiapas – Contention Over Indigenous Rights and Culture Continues
UPDATE II: National Consultation on Indigenous Rights and Culture
ANALYSIS: Civil Society, Third Actor in Dispute
IN FOCUS: Political Prisoners – The Voice of Cerro Hueco
SIPAZ Activities (November 1998 – January 1999)
31/05/1999
At the beginning of March, Chiapas Governor Roberto Albores Guillen presented his own state legislative proposal concerning indigenous rights and culture. Albores said that this proposal […]
31/05/1999
On March 21, 15,000 polling places were set up at the EZLN’s initiative, in order for Mexicans to express their opinions regarding indigenous rights. More than […]
31/05/1999
The “National Consultation For the Recognition of the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples and for an End to the War of Extermination,” promoted by the EZLN […]
31/05/1999
I arrive at the jail and the first thing they ask me at the entrance is to show my identification. I go down six steps, and […]
31/05/1999
Information Visit to the northern region (counties of Yajalon, Tila, Sabanilla and Tumbala); included interviews with displaced persons who had returned to their communities as well […]