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In Mexico, the Zapatista communities of the state of Chiapas, located in the southeast of Mexico, denounce various attacks by paramilitary groups and authorities, a conflict that is invisible to the press but has been going on for some time.
The state of Chiapas was the cradle of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), which rose up in arms in 1994. Twenty-eight years later, the indigenous Zapatista communities are working to build an autonomous and different society, but at the same time denouncing constant attacks by paramilitary groups and the authorities.
With the support of the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center, which is based in Chiapas, members of civil society from different countries have formed an international observation mission.
“What those communities do in Chipas is impressive: develop their autonomy, a very democratic, anti-capitalist political system, and we wanted to give our trip a political character (…) The objective was to be able to participate as an observer of human rights and thus support the movement,” says Antoine Dibon, a member of an international observation mission to Chiapas.
Dibon and Juliette Martinez spent two weeks in the indigenous community of San Gregorio. “For us, two weeks were enough to understand, because every day we talk to the residents of the community of Nuevo San Gregorio,” added Dibon during a conversation with Braulio Moro, host of RFI.
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