22/03/2024
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22/03/2024
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ARTICLE: 30th Anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising

After much speculation and rumors, the official invitation to the 30th anniversary of the armed uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) was finally published on December 24th, after a series of 20 communiqués that explain its reading of the moment and the strategic option of the movement for the future.
22/03/2024
09/03/2023
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“The Earth is not for sale, it is loved and defended”, MODEVITE © SIPAZ, Archive
09/03/2023
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FOCUS: Megaprojects, a risk factor for those who defend territory

According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Mexico is the fourth country worldwide with the greatest biological biodiversity. Thanks to its geographical location, relief and diversity of climates, the country has nine of the 11 types of ecosystems; about 200 thousand different species and is also home to approximately 12% of the biodiversity in the world.
09/03/2023
03/10/2021
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Opening of signatures of the Escazú Agreement © CEPAL
03/10/2021
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FOCUS: Escazu in the Mexican Environmental Context

The Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (better known as the Escazu Agreement as it was adopted in the Costa Rican city of that name), is a pioneering legal instrument on environmental protection, and at the same time a human rights treaty that proposes a transformation of environmental governance.
03/10/2021
03/10/2021
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03/10/2021
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LATEST: Mexico – June 6th Elections, biggest and most violent in history

Mexico held elections on June 6th, which were estimated to be the biggest in the country's history, since more than 20,000 popularly elected positions were contested; among them 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies, the governments of 15 states and thousands of positions in local congresses and city councils.
03/10/2021
09/06/2021
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Launch of the Journey for Life - Chapter 19 © SIPAZ
09/06/2021
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LATEST: Midterm Elections – Dispute for the Continuity of the Fourth Transformation

On June 6th, elections will be held in Mexico in which 500 councils and more than 20,300 local offices will be decided, including 15 governorships. They will be held in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
09/06/2021
15/12/2020
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Work day by day to survive © SIPAZ
15/12/2020
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LATEST: COVID-19 – Health, economic and social Impacts increase

In August, Mike Ryan, director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Depart-ment, pointed out that the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic could be underestimated in Mexico due to the low number of tests carried out.
15/12/2020
02/06/2020
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Sanitization process in San Cristóbal de Las Casas © Noé Pineda Arredondo
02/06/2020
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LATEST: Mexico – The risk of invisibility and aggravation of multiple pending human rights issues in the context of the pandemic

In April, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) presented his fifth quarterly report. Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, he reported that this year there will be 22 million beneficiaries of the different social programs and that in nine months two million new jobs will be created, among others by the Sembrando Vida (Sowing Life) program.
02/06/2020
19/12/2019
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Rail lines in Palenque Chiapas today © SIPAZ
19/12/2019
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FOCUS: Mayan Train

In the middle of the month of November of this year, the government of the "Fourth Transformation" convened the authorities and representative institutions of the municipalities and indigenous communities belonging to the indigenous Maya, Ch'ol, Tseltal, and Tsotsil, among other groups, from the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo, located in the area of the "Mayan Train Development Project".
19/12/2019