Urgent Action: Campaign “A photo for the Women of Atenco”

Published on March 13, 2013 in Chiapas

Mujeres Atenco mural Take the picture alone or in a group, spread it around in social networks online, and make sure to send a copy by email to:
comunicacion@centroprodh.org.mx

On the 3rd and 4th of May 2006, during the police operations in Texcoco and Atenco (Mexico), the Mexican State (the 3 levels of government and the three central police agencies) tortured 207 people who they arrested, and sexually tortured the women who were captured that day.

From that day on, the women who were arrested began a legal process against the Mexican State, which has reached international courts.

This Thursday, March 14, 2013, The Inter-American Comission for Human Rights (IACHR) will hold a hearing in which a team of women will give their testimony.

We must stand in solidarity with these women!

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Mexico’s Supreme Court says 12 years of injustice aren’t enough for Alberto Patishtán

Published on March 8, 2013 in Chiapas

Patishtán Familia x carolina

On March 6, 2013, the members of the First Courtroom of the National Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) in Mexico decided that twelve years of injustice aren’t enough for Alberto Patishtán Gómez. When the judges had the opportunity to assert competent jurisdiction for doing a thorough study that would have shown the innocence of the Tzotzil schoolteacher, they declared themselves incompetent. Incompetent? How true, how true. Incompetent in doing their job. Incompetent in seeing that justice is done.

The parasites Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena, José Ramón Cossío and Jorge Pardo Rebolledo, who receive salaries of approximately 4 million Mexican pesos a year (without counting benefits, Christmas bonuses, and additional funds) aren’t interested in reviewing the case of an honorable schoolteacher sentenced to 60 years in prison for the heinous crime of struggling for social justice among poor, indigenous people. A hearing had been announced for the purpose of discussing the proposal drawn up by Judge Olga Sánchez Cordero and supported by Judge Arturo Zaldívar. But no. In less than ten curt, bureaucratic words about the proposal being unfounded, the three judges blocked the measure. They didn’t even feel it was necessary to give their reasons. So blatant was the arrogance of power.

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Constructing a community police in the town of Álvaro Obregón

Published on February 11, 2013 in Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Juchitán

Strengthening the Struggle to Defend Territory on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

March in Álvaro Obregón. February 10, 2013

March in Álvaro Obregón. February 10, 2013

by Daniel Arellano Chávez

Today, February 10, 2013 is certainly a watershed in the struggle for the defense of the land and territory on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. After the successful resistance against the repression ordered by Oaxaca state governor Gabino Cué to shield Mareña Renovables, the peoples of the Isthmus are at a decisive moment in their struggle to defend their territory. The Assembly held today and the sizeable march in Álvaro Obregón has provided the ideal setting for announcing townspeople’s decisions, expelling false political leaders and their political parties, and beginning the construction of a Community Police.

At the old General Charis military quarters, the scene of the historic resistance of February 2, men and women from San Dionisio del Mar, San Mateo del Mar, Xadani, Emiliano Zapata, San Blas Atempa, Unión Hidalgo, and Juchitán, among other communities, came together in the morning to ratify their total rejection of the wind projects in the region and demand the immediate expulsion of Mareña Renovables from the territories of the Isthmus.

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