14/04/2017
ACTIVIDADES DE SIPAZ (De principios de noviembre de 2016 a finales de enero de 2017)
– LATEST: “Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States”
– FOCUS: National Indigenous Congress Proposal – “Echoes of Hope…”
– ARTICLE: Violations of Human Rights in Border Region between Guatemala and Mexico
– SIPAZ ACTIVITIES (From the beginning of November, 2016 to the end of January, 2017)
14/04/2017
In November, SIPAZ had the opportunity to participate in the International Human Rights Observation Mission on the Guatemala-Mexico Border (MODH in its Spanish acronym), convened by the Cross-Border Migration and Gender Coordination Board (MTMG in its Spanish acronym) to raise awareness of human rights violations in this region.
14/04/2017
On January 1, 2017, from the Caracol of Oventik, the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) publicly confirmed its decision to "to name an Indigenous Governing Council with men and women representatives from each one of the peoples, tribes, and nations that make up the CNI. (...) This council intends to govern this country. (...) This council will be presided over by an indigenous woman of the CNI, (...) which is to say, a woman of indigenous blood who knows her culture. This indigenous woman spokesperson from the CNI will be an independent candidate for the presidency of Mexico in the 2018 elections."
14/04/2017
The night of November 8, 2016 shocked the whole world when, in spite of the forecasts and rejection by broad sectors both inside and outside the United States, Republican candidate Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election.