The State and the School Teacher

In Mexico, an elementary school teacher who also was a community organizer in the indigenous community of El Bosque in Chiapas, was framed in the killing of 8 cops, and faces 60 years in prison.
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In Mexico, an elementary school teacher who also was a community organizer in the indigenous community of El Bosque in Chiapas, was framed in the killing of 8 cops, and faces 60 years in prison.
Alberto Patishtán, emblematic political prisoner of Mexico and comrade, founding member of the “Voz del Amate” (Voice of Amate) organization and part of the Other Campaign, was returned to the prison known as CERSS No. 5 in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas.
Today Wednesday, February 22 at approximately 4:00pm, indigenous human rights defender and member of the Indigenous Peoples’ Assembly of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Defense of the Land and Territory, Bettina Cruz Velázquez, was arrested as she left a meeting…
We demand justice for the comrades murdered, disappeared, imprisoned and tortured during the 2006 conflict and demand punishment for the guilty parties.
At approximately 15:50 this Sunday, January 29, 2012, our comrade David Venegas Reyes was arbitrarily arrested under the direct orders of Jesús Martínez Álvarez, Secretary General of the government of Oaxaca.