Zapatist:innen und internationale Gäst:innen trafen sich in #Chiapas zum Seminar #Semillero anlässlich des #EZLN-Jahrestags. Mehr zu den diskutierten Themen auf #amerika21. https://amerika21.de/2026/01/280788/semillero-2025

Oltre la Piramide: cronache di una Tempesta e del Comune che nasce.

"Siamo immersi in una doppia tempesta: da un lato la ferocia di un capitalismo che agisce come un’arma di distruzione automatica, e dall’altro la risposta difensiva di una Madre Terra che reagisce all’aggressione alterando i propri cicli vitali."

https://globalproject.info/2026/1/oltre-la-piramide-cronache-di-una-tempesta-e-del-comune-che-nasce

#zapatistas #comunomun #zapatismo #ezln #chiapas #oltrelapiramide #anotherworldispossible

In Solidarity With the Venezuelan People: EZLN

In the early hours of January 3rd, 2026, troops from the United States of America (USA) invaded Venezuelan territory, bombed various locations in the country, and kidnapped the president and his wife. The United States thus intends to seize an entire territory, restarting the wars of conquest waged by Big Capital.

In light of these events, we share the following statement:

1. There is an aggressor country, the USA, and a people under attack, Venezuela.

2. The system does not respect even its own international laws, and its pretexts for aggression are increasingly ridiculous, concealing the true motive: profit.

3. Above governments and personal biases and prejudices, we support the people of Venezuela and offer our solidarity to the best of our ability.

To add your signature: apoyo.venezuela.2026@gmail.com

Signed by: Zapatista Army of National Liberation

Organizations – Mexico

12 Pueblos Originarios de Tecámac – Tecámac, estado de México, México
Academicxs con Palestina contra el genocidio – México
Acción por palestina Morelos
Asamblea Nacional por el Agua, la Vida y el Territorio -México
Asociación de Exploración Científica y Recreativa Brújula Roja
Asociación para la Educación Popular en América Latina | México
Batallones Femeninos
Brigada Callejera de Apoyo a la Mujer
Café y Galería La Resistencia, Ciudad de México
Café Zapata Vive
Cátedra Carlos Montemayor
Ciudadanía Lagunera por los Derechos Humanos, A.C
Clínica de Heridas y Casa del Centro
Colectivo
Colectivo «Lo de menos»
Colectivo Agroecológico Tierra de Volcanes Agrocultural
Colectivo Centro de Análisis Multidisciplinario -UNAM
Colectivo Cuaderno Común
Colectivo de (ar)terrorismo Guerrilla Bang Bang,
Colectivo de apoyo al CNI-CIG y EZLN, Llegó la hora de los pueblos.
Colectivo de Profesorxs en la Sexta
Colectivo de Trabajo Cafetos
Colectivo El Desborde Tango, CDMX
Colectivo Empalabrando, Querétaro.
Colectivo Gavilanas
Colectivo Independiente Sueño de Compas (Rodolfo Olivares, Martín Reynoso, Adrián, Escobar Mateos, Ernesto Dzul Can y Diana Pimentel Rosales) – CDMX y Estado de México
Colectivo José Revueltas – Cd Juárez
Colectivo la Ceiba
Colectivo la Otra Justicia
Colectivo Mujeres Siglo XXI
Colectivo Mujeres Tierra, Mexicali, BC
Colectivo Panadero La Grieta
Comisión de Derechos Humanos y Laborales del Valle de Tehuacán
Comité Autónomo de Agua Potable – San Pablo Tecalco, México.
Comité de Enlace Latinoamericano y Caribeño (CELC)
Comité de Padres y Madres de Ayotzinapa. ¡Vivos los Llevaron, Vivos los Queremos!
Comunidad Circular, Ensenada B.C.
Comunidad de Tlanezi Calli en Resistencia
Comunidad de Xochitlanezi
Comunidad de Xochitlanezi del Común
Comunidad Indígena Otomí residente en la CDMX
Concejo indígena de gobierno Santiago Mexquititlán – Amealco Querétaro
Congreso Nacional Indígena
Consejo Regional Totonaco
Coordinadora de Colonias de Ecatepec – México
El Grupo de Litigantes para la Protección y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos (Grupo de Litigantes -PRODEDH) – Chiapas, México
El Tekpatl periódico crítico y de combate, Puebla/México
Felpudas Teatro (Diana Pimentel Rosales, Vianey Hernández Villada, Cecilia Irais Reza Mata) – CDMX, México
Geo-grafías Comunitarias, región cholulteca, México
Grupo de Trabajo No Estamos Todxs
Guerrerxs Sin Fronteras
Instituto Mexicano para el Desarrollo Comunitario
Juventud Comunista de México – México.
Kolectivo “la Bestia Grafika”
Laboratorio Popular de Medios Libres
Los y las hijas del Maíz Pinto. Tlaxcala, México.
Maderas del Pueblo del Sureste A.C
MAKA Colectiva de estudios psicosociales, feministas y de género – ciudad de México
Mexicali Resiste
Mexicanos Unidos
Micelias
Nodo de Derechos Humanos (NODHO) – México
Norte a 2
Núcleo de Solicitantes de Vivienda, Movimiento Sin Techo y Campamento “Camarada Celestino”.
Organización Campesina de la Sierra del Sur (O.C.S.S) – Coyuca de Benítez, Guerrero
Organización Popular Francisco Villa de Izquierda Independiente
Organizaciones de México
Otra danza es posible
Partido de los Comunistas
Periódico la Flor in xochitl in cuicatl, Puebla/México
Proceso de Articulación de la Sierra de Santa Marta, Sur de Veracruz, Mexico
Pueblos Unidos de la Región Cholultecas y de los Volcanes, Puebla/México
Raíces en Resistencia – México
Red de Apoyo Iztapalapa Sexta
Red de feminismos descoloniales
Red de mujeres del oriente del estado de México
Red de Resistencia y Rebeldía de Guanajuato
Red de Resistencia y Rebeldía Jo’
Red Universitaria Anticapitalista
Resistrenzas-Puebla.
Resonancias Radio
ReVelArte – Improvisando la liberación, México
Revista La Gota
Revuelta de las Semillas
Sabotaje Media – México
Tango disidente, libre y alegre, CDMX.
Tejiendo Organización Revolucionaria (TOR) – México.
Unión Popular Apizaquense Democrática e Independiente (UPADI), Apizaco, Tlaxcala, México.
Unitierra KAXUNIK (Jonotla), Sierra Norte
Unitierra Puebla
UPREZ Benito Juárez
Vecinos del cerro de Tecalco – Chiconauhtla.
Vendaval, cooperativa panadera y algo más, CDMX

International organizations

Assemblea de Solidaritat amb Mèxic, País Valencià
Associazione Jambo, Italia
Centro de Documentación sobre Zapatismo. CEDOZ. Estado Español
Colectivo Calendario Zapatista (Grecia)
Colectivo gata-gata. Alemania
CONAICOP – Consejo Nacional e Internacional de la Comunicación Popular.
Grupo de Chiapas del Comité Noruego de Solidaridad con América Latina (LAG Noruega)
Grupo de teatro del oprimido «activistas»
Laboratorio Sociale Largo Tappia Lanciano (CH) – Abruzzo – Italia
Lumaltik Herriak, País Vasco
München International
Nodo Solidale (Italia/México)
Oficina Ecuménica por la Paz y la Justicia e.V.
Pallasos en Rebeldía, Galícia
Pueblos en Camino, Abya Yala
Schools for Chiapas/Escuelas para Chiapas – EEUU/Chiapas
Yretiemble! Colectivo de apoyo al Zapatismo y el CNI desde Madrid – Madrid, Estado Español

Individuals – Mexico

Abril Esquivel – México
Abril Téllez Flores
Adalberto Montiel Román
Adriana López González
Alaíde R. Martínez Hdz
Alberto Coria, Adherente a la Sexta.
Alberto Gonzalo Dueñas López
Alberto Tenorio Jiménez
Alejandra Gordillo Arias CDMX
Alejandra Hernández – México
Alejandra Jiménez González, Querétaro
Alejandra Rosas Rivera
Alejandra Sosa López
Alejandro Bonada Chavarría
Alejandro Karin Pedraza Ramos -FFyL-UNAM/CDMX
Alma Alvarado Hernández
Alma Idalia Kullick Lackner, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
Alma Julieta Granados Garduño, Querétaro
Alma Rosa Moya Alvarado- Querétaro
Ana Luisa Juan Mendoza
Ana P. Torres González, Caracol del Sur
Ana Valadez Ortega
Anayatzin Temores Alcántara
Anelí Villa Avendaño, CELA-CIALC, UNAM
Angélica Aurora Avila Olazcoaga – ciudad de México
Antonio Múgica Puebla México
Antonio Valencia Olascoaga
Araceli Gutiérrez Huitzil
Argelia Guerrero
Argelia Rentería
Ariel García
Armando Soto Baeza
Arturo Anguiano – México
Arturo Espinosa Guerrero
Arturo Guerrero
Bárbara Pohlenz, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas
Bárbara Zamora – México
Beatriz E. Rosales de la Cruz – CDMX, México
Benjamín Becerra Absalón
Bertha Navarro – Ciudad de México
Blanca de Lira Macías
Blanca Lilia Narváez Ribera
Bonifacia Hernández Flores
Brenda Nava Galindo
Brian Michel Jiménez Luna (Foro permanente contra la precarización docente)
Camilo Raxa Camacho Jurado
Carlos Alberto Ríos Gordillo
Carlos Andrade – Ciudad de México
Carlos Andrés Aguirre Álvarez Ciudad de México
Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas, México.
Carlos Calvo Espinoza
Carlos Macías Esparza – México
Carlos Miguel López Sierra, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas.
Carlos Reveles Delijorge
Carlos Tornel, México.
Carmen Alinn Bravo Castillo
Carolina Concepción González González. Profesora-investigadora. La Paz, B.C.S. , México.
Carolina Coppel – Mazatlán, Sinaloa
Carolina Díaz Iñigo, Antropóloga
Catalina Rodríguez Lazcano, México
Cecilia Delgado Briseño
Cecilia Granados Salgado, CDMX
Cecilia Vargas
César Alejandro Ponce Pérez
César Felipe Rojas López
Citlali M. Marino Uribe
Claudia Bustillos Lugo
Claudia Carlos Pinedo
Claudia Ledesma Hernández CDMX
Claudia Yanet Figueroa Sánchez
Cosme Zamudio
Cruz Antonio González Astorga
Cynthia Astudillo Ventura
Daniel Ochoa Vázquez
David Barrios Rodríguez, Ciudad de México
David Jiménez, Puebla
David Lozano Tovar
Diana Itzu Luna, Chiapas. México
Diana Pimentel Rosales – CDMX, México
Diego Gonzalo Ibarra Rodríguez
Diego Osorno
Dr. Gilberto López y Rivas, México
Dr. León Enrique Avila, Profesor, Defensor de los humedales de montaña
Dra. Alicia Castellanos Guerrero, México
Dra. Ma. Andrea Trejo Márquez-UNAM-México
Dra. Patricia E González-Zuniga
Dra. Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, México
Edith Victorino
Eduardo Mejía Ramírez
Elena katzestein Ferrer
Elvira Aquino Camacho
Emilia Raggi Lucio-México
Emilia Torres, Puebla
Emiliano Carvajal González, Ciudad de México
Enrique González Ruiz
Enrique Viramontes Cabrera
Eric Daniel Lazo Ceron
Ernesto Flores Escareño, Adherente a la Sexta Declaración.
Ernesto Menchaca Arredondo
Esperanza Martínez Hernández – México.
Estefanía Ávalos Palacios
Eugenia Díaz – México
Fabio Ceballos
Fabiola Ceballos Loya Cd. Juarez
Fabiola Osnaya Alquicira
Fabricio Alvarado Cajeme
Felipe I Echenique March
Felipe Varela Cervantes
Félix Ismael Sánchez Flores
Fernanda Navarro – Ciudad de México
Fernando Ríos Hernández, Querétaro
Fernando Thirión Romero,
Fiorella Fenoglio Limón
Francisca Urias Hermosillo – Cd. de Mexico
Francisco Adair Antonio Dávila – CDMX, México
Francisco Barrrios “El Mastuerzo “
Francisco Coronel Guerrero
Francisco de Parres
Francisco Humberto Peregrina
Francisco Javier Guerrero Anaya
Francisco Javier Maldonado Sacco
Francisco Noe Romero Rosario
Francisco Pérez Hernández – México
Fructuoso Matías García
Gabriela Salazar
Gabriela Serralde Díaz – México
Genomelin López Velázquez – Calakmul, Campeche, México
Gerardo M. Carrera
Gerardo Vázquez Figueroa, Querétaro
Gpe. Sandra de la Garza Vargas – Monterrey Nuevo León , México
Grace Zamora
Graciela García
Griselda Domínguez Lerio, Tuzamapan, Coatepec, Veracruz, México.
Griselda Terrón Nava – Ciudad de México
Héctor Alexis Castro Bastidas
Héctor de Jesús Aguilar Farías.
Héctor Garduño Mena
Héctor Ortiz Elizondo, Caracol del Sur
Humberta García Escamilla
Indira Benites Navarrete-Docente-Tlaquepaque Jalisco
Inés de la Crass, Tijuana, Baja California, México
Inti Barrios
Jaime Cota Aguilar
Jaime López Cesati
Janeh Leyva Domínguez
Jesús Alberto Hernández. Periodista, urbanista y cineasta
Jesús David Bollás Calderón, Querétaro
Jesús G. Camacho
Jesús Rangel Ontiveros.
Jesús Salvador Gonzáles García
Johnatan Guerrero
Jorge Alfonso Ortiz Parada
Jorge Alonso Sánchez, México
Jorge G. Balleza
Jorge Luis López López, abogado defensor de derechos humanos
José Abraham Monroy Carapia
José Manuel Pimentel Rodríguez
José Manuel Pimentel Rodríguez – CDMX, México
Josefina Torres Aguilera S.L.P. México
Josué Menchaca López
Juan Carlos Capanegra
Juan Carlos Cota Ortiz
Juan José Cruz Cervantes
Juan Varela Cervantes
Juan Villoro, México
Julio César Borja Cruz, Querétaro
Julio César Ramírez. Torreón, Coahuila, México
Karen Elizabeth Zúñiga Fernández / CDMX, México
Karla Barrios Rodríguez – ciudad de México
Karla Quintana
Kyzza Terrazas, México
Laura Bensasson – Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
Laura Carlsen, México
Laura Isabel Alcázar Gómez
Laura Vázquez Reyna, Monterrey, Nuevo León
Lenin Andrés Fonseca García
León Fierro Resendiz
Leticia Madera Rentería
Lev Jardón Borbolla
Lilia García Torres, Ciudad de México.
Lizet Delgado Calderón
Lluvia Cervantes Contreras – Querétaro, Mx
Lorena Juan Mendoza
Lorena Martínez Tristán
Luciana Kaplan, Documentalista – Ciudad de México
Lucio Espinosa García
Luis Alberto González Arenas, Organización: RIP.mx, Adherente a la Sexta
Luis Carlos Andrade Espino – México
Luis de Tavira
Luis Hernández Navarro, México
Luis Lozano A.
Luis Omar Facio Sánchez, Querétaro
Luis Pablo Padilla Velasco
Luis Yolkin Villarreal Castañeda
Luisa Fernanda Martínez Peredo
Luisa Riley
Luz Fernanda Álvarez Trejo
Ma. Cristina Peralta Casillas
Ma. de la Paz Espino, Valle de Bravo Edo. de México
Magdalena Gómez – México
Marcela Blum, CDMX
Marcos Bucio Pacheco
Margarita Muñoz, México
María Alicia Dorantes Camacho, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
María Aragón – México
María del Carme Cano
María del Carmen Briceño Fuentes
María del Carmen Martínez, Colectivo Utopía. Morelia, Michoacán, México
María del Carmen Valadez Pérez
María del Socorro Capetillo Pérez
María Elena Saavedra Romero
María Eugenia Guilliem Partida
María Eugenía Sánchez Díaz de Rivera, México
María Gracia Castillo Ramírez
María Maldonado Villavicencio
María Teresa Ascencio Cedillo, Puebla, Pue.
Mariana Gómez
Mariana Itzel Espinosa Valencia – Mexico
Mariana López de la Vega
Mario Valdés Adalid
Marlene Mar Santamaría, Poza Rica, Ver.
Marta Alicia Pérez Sánchez
Martín Barrios
Martin Ignacio Borrego
Martín López Trejo
Martín Méndez Bustamante CDMX
Mateo Crossa Niell
Mauricio González González, Coordinadora Regional de Acción Solidaria en Defensa del Territorio (CORASON), Ciudad de México.
Miguel Ángel Ramírez Zaragoza, México
Miguel Darío Hidalgo Castro UPN Tuxtepec, Oaxaca
Miguel Gómez Beltrán
Mitzi Flores
Moisés Emiliano Valtierra Bustillos
Mtro. Gilberto Zuniga L
Natalia Beristain – México
Neftalí Miranda Pineda
Nélida Estefanía Noriega Calvillo, San Francisco Tlaltenco, Ciudad de México.
Néstor Chavarría Rodríguez
Olga Alejandra Sabido Ramos
Olga Patricia Calderas Osorio
Oralba Castillo Nájera – Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
Orlando García Silva
Oscar Andrés Jiménez González, Querétaro
Oscar Cerda Gómez
Oscar G. Balleza
Pablo Ángel Lugo Martínez
Pedro Delmar Rubisel Palacios Trejo, Querétaro
Perla Margarita Meza Inostroza
Porfirio Martínez González
Rafael Espinosa Morales, Ciudad de México.
Raúl Delgado Wise, México
Raúl Romero
Ricardo Guerrero Aguilar
Ricardo Montaño, Juventud comunista de México – Baja California
Roberto Quiroz González – cafetería la nezia, Gustavo A Madero, CDMX
Roberto Ramírez Pérez
Rocio Barrón Ríos, Querétaro
Rodolfo Ambriz Vilchis
Rodolfo Girón, México.
Rodrigo García Leija – CDMX
Rodrigo Rubén Hernández González
Rosa Paulina Reséndiz Flores
Rubén Macías – México
Salvador Fong Fierro
Sandra Gayou Soto
Sara Ángelus – Tepoztlán, Morelos México
Sashenka Fierro Resendiz
Serafin Aponte, bailarín y coreógrafo – México
Sergio Rodrigo Lomelí Gamboa
Shekoufeh Mohammadi, México
Shirley Alejandra Thomas Hickie
Silva Juárez Aguilar
Silvia Resendiz Flores
Siria Garibay Marrón
Stefanie Weiss CDMX
Tania Jimena Hernández Crespo
Tania Mitzi Gallaga Hernández
Tatiana Fiordelisio Coll
Uriel Rosales Murillo
Ursula Pruneda, CDMX
Valentina Leduc – Ciudad de México
Vanessa García Blanca / Torreón, Coahuila
Verónica López Delgado
Víctor Gutiérrez Torres
Víctor Manuel Cabrera Morelos
Víctor Manuel Escobar Pineda
Víctor Manuel Romo Arteaga
Víctor Manuel Salomón Soto
Victoria Giles Mercado, del Estado de México.
Violeta Cortés Hernández
Violeta Sandoval Chapa
Vladimir Viramontes Cabrera
William Guerrero Gálvez
Xenia Hernández – Secretaria de relaciones del Sindicato Independiente de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores Académicos de la UNAM. (SITTAUNAM)
Xochitl Georgina Franco Delgado, Ciudad de México
Xóchitl Hernández – México
Xochitl Leyva Solano, Chiapas-Mexico
Yael Espinosa García
Yasser Arafat Roberto Ibarra Velázquez
Yaxcanek Nashinya Solano Salgado, CDMX
Yolanda Abrajan – cafetería la nezia, Gustavo A Madero, CDMX

Individuals – International

Andrea Cegna (freelance journalist) – 20ZLN – Italia
Byron Mauricio Acosta Kauka Colombia
Chara Tzouma – Grecia
Christy Petropoulou, Grecia
Cybèle David, Francia
Derly Constanza Cuetia Dagua Kauka, Colombia
Edo Schmidt, Muenster, Alemania
Emmanuel E Rozental-Klinger Kauka, Colombia
Felip Cuenca
Gabriela Conder, abogada, Argentina
Gerardo Muñoz, Estados Unidos.
Hector Bravo Benard – Países Bajos
Jaime Bernardo Díaz Díaz – Santiago de Chile.
Marcos Roitman Rosenmann – España
Nelly Bocchi, Italia
Paul Paulsen, Gotemburgo, Suecia.
Pepe Mejía, periodista, Estado español
Raul Zibechi (periodista, Uruguay).
Vilma Rocío Almendra Quiguaná Kauka, Colombia

Original statement at Enlace Zapatista, January 4th, 2026.
Translated by Schools for Chiapas.

Never with the Aggressors, Always with the Bolivarian Revolution

Two facts. The US Air Force has entered the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, bombed Caracas, attacked key targets in the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira, and subsequently, in a kidnapping operation, abducted the constitutional president, Nicolás Maduro, and the first lady, Cilia Flores, to take him to New York to be tried by US courts and according to US laws on charges of being a narco-terrorist. Under no circumstances should attention be diverted. This is a violation of international law, and more seriously, it sets a precedent that raises the following question: Which Latin American country, president, or political leader will be the next target of the United States? And I mean the United States. If the Trump administration is the instrument of execution, the decision is part of the imperialist conception of international relations toward our America and, by extension, the rest of the world dependent on US military power. Let’s not fool ourselves, the Democratic Party and its so-called socialist wing remain complicitly silent.

There is no room for half measures now. Covering up the violation of international law, under the classification of the Venezuelan state and its narco-terrorist leaders, only justifies the aggressor. Nor is it useful to take refuge in the argument of the internal and external opposition, which alleges electoral fraud in the last presidential elections, a fact that it has been unable to prove, refusing to hand over the records that would prove it. Therefore, any explanation that justifies the military incursion of the US armed forces, by Venezuelans, betrays the principles of dignity and political independence on which national sovereignty is based. The rest is demagoguery.

Any opposition is legitimate until it breaks the rules of democracy by expressing support for a foreign invasion. Even more so if the decision conceals a spurious pact to hand over natural resources and wealth to imperialism in exchange for regaining power. Let’s not fool ourselves, this operation, designed by the Pentagon, the White House, the CIA, and the State Department, has María Corina as its faithful servant. While Donald Trump declares to Fox News: “We are now making a decision on the next step regarding Venezuelan leadership, (…) we will evaluate whether Machado can lead Venezuela.” Machado declares on social media: “The US has fulfilled its promise… Today we are ready to assert our mandate and take power.” The war of disinformation takes over the space and, in war, the allies of the United States take the lead. Nothing about the mobilizations in Venezuela that support the revolution. Even less so, journalists and academics emphasize the violation of international law or the illegitimacy of the kidnapping. All those interviewed are condescending. Lukewarm statements from presidents, such as Pedro Sánchez in Spain, who, on Twitter on February 24, 2022, “condemns Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian government and people”; and today, January 3, 2026, writes: “The Spanish government is closely monitoring events in Venezuela… We call for de-escalation and responsibility.” No comment.

But let’s not fool ourselves, the representatives of the United States in Latin America, whether under Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, George Bush, Richard Nixon, or John Kennedy, are not its ambassadors. They have names and surnames and represent members of the plutocracy or are part of its armed forces. They have been elevated to power by kneeling before the current occupant of the White House and requesting coups, covert actions, financial support, and destabilization campaigns. Let us remember some of them: Anastasio Somoza, Jorge Ubico, Rafael Trujillo, Castelo Branco, Augusto Pinochet, Alfredo Stroessner, Hugo Banzer, Jorge Videla, and if we talk about civilians: Joaquín Balaguer, Jair Bolsonaro, Javier Milei, Felipe Calderón, Nayib Bukele, and the president-elect of Honduras, Nasry Asfura. But there are many more. In other words: the enemies are within. They despise the people, they deeply hate the working classes, behaving like sepoy soldiers. How else can we interpret Milei’s words fanatically supporting the aggression and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores?

Now is the moment of truth. There is no more time for appeasement. The international community, if it still has any dignity left, must not only condemn the aggression, but also show its support for the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and demand the release of President Maduro and Cilia Flores, who are being held captive by the kidnappers. Corina Machado is not an option; she expresses hatred, revenge, and the death of all democratic options. If she appears, the betrayal will be complete. We are witnessing the end of a cycle. With or without Nicolás Maduro, the Bolivarian revolution must continue to build its path. Surrender is not part of Simón Bolívar’s victorious legacy.

Original text by Marcos Roitman Rosenmann published in La Jornada on January 4th, 2025.
Translation by Schools for Chiapas.

Monroe

It’s not that the Monroe Doctrine has returned: it never left. President Trump’s advisors simply told him to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors: “Apply our foreign policy principles,” they said. His “neo-Monroeism” is an updated copy of that doctrine which, beginning in 1823, served to contain the geopolitical threat of the British, French, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish in Latin America. After the dying Spanish empire left a vacuum, it would have to be filled by the United States, in a struggle that would give it defensive justification for the continent, which stretched from Cuba and the Caribbean to Nicaragua and Central America. Much later, it was not the eternal enemies, first the Soviet “communists” and then the Russians, who were the main target of the Monroe Doctrine during the Cold War; no, it turned out to be China as well.

With proven oil reserves in the world, 950 trade sanctions, expelled from the international financial system, with more than $300 billion withdrawn from bank accounts abroad, and with the United States stealing the Citgo oil company in 2023, Venezuela was forced to ally itself with other powers, as President Maduro told the Chinese state agency Xinhua; In addition, China is one of its main creditors and importers of Venezuelan oil.

If there is one thing that capitalist propaganda (investors, banks, and companies) is right about, and that their lackeys shout about in horror, it is that Venezuela has indeed had the construction of socialism in mind. Hugo Chávez said it: “… what did all this produce? A coup in 2002, a lockout, oil sabotage, a counter-coup, discussions, and readings. I came to the conclusion (…) that the way out of poverty is socialism […]” After having taken as his original project and trying to believe in “humanizing” capitalism, whose roots were in the third way, he would say: “Today I am convinced that it is impossible […] I am convinced that socialism is the way […] I believe that it must be a new socialism, with fresh ideas, coupled with a new era that is just beginning.” That is why I dared to call it ‘21st-century socialism’ as a project. I believe it is a challenge.” (Interview with Chilean Manuel Cabieses in 2005, quoted by Beatriz Stolowicz, El misterio del posneoliberalismo [The Mystery of Post-Neoliberalism], vol. 2 ILSA, Colombia, p. 742, footnote 3.)

This socialist alternative became a challenge and a project for the neoliberal state, with a social democracy distinct from the welfare state, populism, and real socialism; and as an alternative, it was attacked for being a threat to capitalism and for anticipating a domino effect in Latin America. Nationalist or populist governments were subjected to pressure, disqualification, indebtedness, and “natural or induced destabilization,” as sociologist Pablo Gonzáles Casanova wrote. Today, Venezuela represents what James Monroe believed: America must be reconfigured for and by its corporations… Except that China is unlikely to allow its investments to be withdrawn, unless this trade dispute crosses the line into war.

Original text by Miguel Ángel Zebadua Carboney published in Chiapas Paralelo on December 27th, 2025.
Translated by Schools for Chiapas.

Semillero “Of Pyramids, Histories, Loves and, of course, Heartbreaks”: Zapatista

The encounter takes place within the framework of the 32nd anniversary of the Zapatista uprising in 1994 and is being held at Cideci-Unitierra in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, from December 26th to 30th. The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) reported that more than a thousand attendees from 40 different regions are present, in addition to 500 Zapatista Indigenous people from various Tseltal, Tsotzil, Ch’ol, Tojolabal, Zoque, Mam, Calchikel, and Mestizo backgrounds. It should be noted that this contribution, due to its regular schedule, only includes the presentations from the first three days. A popular celebration and dance are planned for December 31st and January 1st, 2026, at the Caracol of Oventik. The participation of the Zapatista Sixth Commission in all sessions is significant. Sub-commander Moisés and Captain Marcos are also present. They inaugurated the aptly named seedbed. Captain Marcos explained that they asked their guests for an “analysis of the pyramids and the manipulation of narratives within the economic system, bad governments, laws and the judicial structure, resistance movements, the left and progressivism, human rights, the feminist struggle, and the arts.”

He noted that they were asked to present their ideas to foster critical thinking among the attendees, as well as to contribute to the formulation of acts of resistance and rebellion, and that their interventions should not be limited to current events. “We are asking for seeds of medium and long-term vision that will resist and rebel against the onslaught of the immediate.” For their part, he said, the EZLN representatives would try not to repeat the platitudes that abound in the media.

In his opening remarks, he outlined key elements that support the disappearance of nation-states in neoliberal contexts. He pointed out that this imposition of ideas includes the theft of half of Mexican territory by the United States in 1848, the Spanish Conquest, and other transformative moments in Mexico, including the current administration. He asked, “Do you really think the Mexican government will demand an apology from US President Donald Trump for the so-called 1847 War? Don’t hold your breath.” He added that when the Zapatistas communicate their thinking, “we are speaking to you, but we are looking far away in terms of time and geography.”

Sub-commander Moisés, in his various interventions, addressed the context of defining the project of the commons, especially the principle of non-property ownership and the complexity of strengthening the Zapatista movement’s conviction regarding this project, its practices within the new structures created with the disappearance of the Good Government Councils, which in previous meetings have been linked to the formation of the pyramid not only in the states, but also in these spaces.

It is, I believe, about understanding the dynamics of power. I don’t know if they have a political statement planned for January 1st regarding the 32nd anniversary, but for now, the group has identified and acknowledged its history and its future direction. The distinction made by Sub-commander Moisés between the struggle through violence and the greater complexity of a peaceful political struggle, such as the one involved in defining the common good, was very important.

The second session revolved around the use of history as a strategy of the political class. Raúl Romero pointed out the use and abuse of history by the dominant classes to subjugate the dominated classes. In response, “oppressed peoples fight to recover their history,” and he provided numerous examples of a kind of official counter-history in serious cases. Along the same lines, Carlos Aguirre Rojas distinguished between history based on concrete, verifiable events and the many different interpretations of those events that seek to erase them. He presented a radical critique of currents, especially academic ones, of coloniality, decoloniality, and postcoloniality, since these approaches ultimately place the source and origin of current problems within countries in external factors.

The third session focused on human rights, and in it, both Tamara San Miguel and Eduardo Almeida, from the Human Rights Network (NODHO), addressed their persistent violation and reconstructed their defense strategies, always in support of victims and the dilemmas of continuing to demand justice through legal channels.

The lawyer Bárbara Zamora focused her presentation on the analysis of the discriminatory content that fosters dispossession in laws found in the Salinas-era counter-reform to Article 27 of the Constitution, the agrarian law, the hydrocarbons law, the mining law, and the civil code, and concluded with the impact of recent reforms regarding injunctions. In short, the Zapatista movement is a political movement that has been an active concern throughout its history.

Original article by Magdalena Gómez, La Jornada, December 30th, 2025.
Translated by Schools for Chiapas.

Un semillero zapatista para derribar la gran pirámide del capitalismo

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On January 1, 1994,
Indigenous peoples from #Chiapas, Mexico, rose up.
They took control of city halls in towns across the state.
They took the state capital #San #Cristobal #de #las #Casas.
And they held them for days, despite a violent response from Mexico’s military.
This was not just any movement confined to the mountainous jungles of Mexico.
It was an Indigenous uprising against injustice. An uprising against neoliberalism. An uprising against globalization and free trade agreements,
and it would have deep reverberations.
Inspiring people, not just in Mexico, but around the world.
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Today in Labor History January 1, 1994: The Zapatista Army of National Liberation began twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas. The Zapatistas are a libertarian socialist political and militant group made up of mostly Indigenous People that now controls a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas. They have been nominally at war with the Mexican state since 1994. However, in recent years, they have focused more on civil than military resistance.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #zapatistas #mexico #revolution #socialism #chiapas #indigenous

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1994, the #Zapatista uprising began in #Chiapas, México. They continue to administer large chunks of the state through #DirectDemocracy and #WorkerEmpowerment, and should be seen as an inspiration for us all about what is possible. #HappyNewYear, y'all. 🙂

🌍 #Chiapas | Cuarto día del Semillero Zapatista: un análisis profundo sobre la crisis climática y el avance del autoritarismo. Frente al colapso ambiental, el EZLN y analistas proponen la organización desde abajo como la única ruta de supervivencia. 🌿✊ https://zurl.co/TZAY5

Rote Hilfe Zeitung aktuell – Schwerpunkt “Kämpfe und Repression in Mexiko”
Die aktuelle Ausgabe der Rote Hilfe Zeitung erscheint mit vielen Beiträgen zu Mexiko, u.a. zu politischen Gefangenen, gewaltsames Verschwindenlassen und Kartellgewalt.
Auch zu #Za
https://girahh.noblogs.org/post/2025/12/30/rote-hilfe-zeitung-aktuell-schwerpunkt-kaempfe-und-repression-in-mexiko/
#deutsch #chiapas #Kartellgewalt #Mexiko #PolitischeGefangene #Repression #RoteHilfe #Verschwindenlassen #Zeitung

✊ #Chiapas | Tercer día del Semillero Zapatista: "El Estado criminal no se auto juzgará". Durante el encuentro se denunció la impunidad sistémica y la urgencia de construir justicia desde los pueblos. La autonomía se reafirma como vía de resistencia. 🌿🏛️ https://zurl.co/2PYkw

Öffentliche Anzeige von Ladenlokalinhaber:innen des Marktes «Dr. Belisario Domínguez» in Ocosingo, Chiapas, angesichts der Enteignung ihrer Räumlichkeiten
Ocosingo, Chiapas, den 15. Dezember 2025

AN DEN NATIONALEN I
https://girahh.noblogs.org/post/2025/12/29/oeffentliche-anzeige-von-ladenlokalinhaberinnen-des-marktes-dr-belisario-dominguez-in-ocosingo-chiapas-angesichts-der-enteignung-ihrer-raeumlichkeiten/
#deutsch #chiapas #CNI #CongresoNacionalIndigena #EZLN #Mexiko #Ocosingo

Fallece Marco Antonio Bernal a los 72 años, político del PRI

Murió Marco Antonio Bernal y el PRI confirmó su deceso.

Por Gabriela Díaz | Reportera                                                       

Marco Antonio Bernal Gutiérrez, ex senador y ex dirigente del Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), falleció a los 72 años de edad. El deceso fue informado este domingo por figuras del tricolor.

El priista Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera adelantó el fallecimiento mediante una publicación en la red social X. En el mensaje se refirió a Bernal Gutiérrez como un amigo cercano y un político con amplia trayectoria. También expresó condolencias a su familia y personas cercanas.

https://twitter.com/MFBeltrones/status/2005310062928048565?s=20

Bernal Gutiérrez ocupó cargos relevantes en el ámbito legislativo y partidista. Fue senador, diputado federal y secretario general de la Confederación Nacional de Organizaciones Populares (CNOP). Su carrera se desarrolló íntegramente dentro del PRI.

Reacciones del priismo

Beltrones Rivera señaló que la capacidad política de Bernal Gutiérrez fue fundamental en procesos de negociación. El exdirigente priista recordó su participación en la resolución de conflictos. El mensaje destacó su trayectoria pública.

El pronunciamiento subrayó el papel de Bernal en espacios de diálogo político. La publicación fue difundida ampliamente en redes sociales. Diversos actores del PRI replicaron el mensaje.

Las condolencias se extendieron a familiares y amistades del exlegislador. La dirigencia partidista también reconoció su aportación institucional. Los mensajes se emitieron durante el mismo día del anuncio. –sn–

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EZLN Opens The Seedbed, Marking the 32nd Anniversary of Uprising in Chiapas

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) opened the “Seedbed of Pyramids, Histories, Loves, and, of course, Heartbreaks” on Friday in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, commemorating the 32nd anniversary of its 1994 uprising. More than 800 attendees from some 40 countries are participating in the gathering, reported Captain Marcos – formerly Sub-commander –  leader of the EZLN, at the opening of the activities.

He explained that the speakers were asked to present their ideas to foster critical thinking among the attendees, as well as to help formulate actions of resistance and rebellion, and that their interventions should not be limited to current events.

“We ask for seeds of medium and long-term vision that will resist and rebel against the avalanche of the immediate,” Marcos stated. Accompanied by Insurgent Sub-commander Moisés and other members of the General Command, he said that the EZLN representatives would try not to repeat the obvious statements that abound in the media.

Captain Marcos acknowledged that communication between indigenous communities and the world has not been easy due to the use of words and ideas. However, they have prioritized Maya languages ​​and used Spanish as a bridge, “because Spanish speakers not only demand the use of the same words, but often the same ideas.”

And in this imposition of ideas, he referred to the theft of half of Mexican territory by the United States in 1848, the Spanish conquest, and other transformative moments in Mexico, including the current administration.

“Do you really think the Mexican government will demand an apology from (US President Donald) Trump for the so-called 1847 War? Don’t hold your breath,” Marcos declared. He added that when the Zapatistas communicate their thinking, “we are speaking to you, but we are looking far away in terms of time and geography.”

The activities of the seedbed will conclude next Tuesday, December 30th.

Original article by Edgar H. Clemente, La Jornada, December 26th, 2025.
Translated by Schools for Chiapas.

Denunciation by Vendors Who Are Members of the CNI and EZLN Support Bases

To the National Indigenous Congress -CNI

To the Assemblies of Zapatista Autonomous Government Collectives (ACGAZ) (EZLN)

To the Support Networks of the CIG, Indigenous Governing Council and its spokesperson, María de Jesús Patricio Martínez.

To the National and International Sixth, Networks of Resistance and Rebellion.

To the independent and alternative media.

To the people of Mexico.

Sisters and brothers, greetings from these lands in southern Mexico. We are fighting every day to work and not depend on the social programs of the bad government, but right now we are suffering the dispossession of our workplaces and economic sustenance for our families.

We are 35 Tseltal Maya people, members of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) and some Support Bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), who work and have shops in a market called Dr. Belisario Domínguez, located in the La Candelaria neighborhood of the municipal capital of Ocosingo, Chiapas.

In 2008, a coalition of tenants was formed called the COALITION OF TENANTS OF THE TRADITIONAL MARKET DR. BELISARIO DOMÍNGUEZ DE OCOSINGO, CHIAPAS, CIVIL ASSOCIATION, was formed with the aim of filing an ordinary civil lawsuit for prescriptive rights, in which we succeeded in obtaining a ruling in our favor as tenants. With this ruling, we drew up our general deed in September 2008, thus becoming co-owners of our premises. However, over time, we began to suffer dispossession of our spaces and threats from the coalition’s board of directors, as they engaged and continue to engage in corruption, doing business with the spaces they have taken from us, selling them to other people.

For this reason, we wish to REPORT the following facts.

September 14, 2025—Our colleague SARA TOLEDO SÁNCHEZ, a Tseltal Maya widow with six children, one of whom has cancer, was evicted from her shop, which is her workplace, her source of income, and the place where she cares for her sick daughter. That day, they took away the products she sells, throwing everything into the hallways, and then welded shut the deadbolts on her shutters so that she could no longer open her store. She has been out of work for more than 82 days, and so far, state authorities have not resolved anything.

November 13, 2025. Vicente Toledo Albores, Carmela Santiz Méndez, Juana Hernández Clara, Alma Lesvia Hernández Clara, Quirino Gordillo Hernández, Micaela Gordillo Hernández, Ana Deli Gordillo Hernández, Juan Mendoza Hernández, and minors were kidnapped inside our premises by the coalition, which closed the market doors and left us locked in for several hours. The prosecutor’s office and the government delegation are aware of this incident.

November 23, 2025. They built two perimeter fences, each 2 meters high and 6 meters long, blocking access to the shutters of four premises belonging to MACARIA ENTZIN GÓMEZ, ENRIQUE LÓPEZ SANTIZ, and TOMAS LÓPEZ ENTZIN, who are our colleagues. They have been unable to work for 20 days because they cannot open their shutters, resulting in financial losses.

November 24, 2025. – SILVIA REYES SÁNCHEZ and a group of gang members arrived at the premises of our colleague Enrique López Santiz to cause damage, breaking three security cameras on his premises. The first was at 8:57 p.m., the second and third at 10:04 p.m. This was done in order to eliminate evidence that she is responsible for the crimes and damage.

Other incidents involving the coalition include the violent eviction of our colleagues Alberto López Sánchez and Juana Méndez López from their premises on April 10, 2012. This happened because they did not agree with the acts of corruption committed by the board of directors, who refused to provide clear accounts of the financial resources administered by the coalition’s board of directors, as well as the deeds that must be delivered to each co-owner.

On June 14, 2013, the board of directors once again began proceedings against our colleagues Quirino Gordillo Hernández, Juan Mendoza Hernández, and Vicente Toledo Albores, stripping them of their premises. The reason for this was that they had requested information about the expenses incurred in the market, as well as the delivery of the deeds to their premises. The coalition asked them for the amount of $150,000.00 (one hundred fifty thousand pesos 00.100 M/N), for a total amount of $10,950,000.00 (ten million, nine hundred fifty thousand pesos 00.100 M/N) for 73 premises belonging to members of the CNI and BAEZ, money that at the time would not be verified by the SAT.

In a formalization of the minutes of a 2013 meeting, one of the sections mentions that the costs of legal proceedings would be covered by the income from the bathrooms and that the current and future directors undertook to carry out all types of procedures for the legalization of documentation in the process of structuring and at no cost to the firm. This point was addressed by the directors at the meeting on September 18, 2023, clarifying that NO DIRECTOR CHARGES FOR SIGNING. They also mentioned that there would be NO MORE intimidation or threats to colleagues who claim their legal rights as market tenants at the meetings.

It should be clarified that a group of individuals within the coalition, whom we have identified by name, do not respect the agreements that they themselves have made and formalized. The reason for their actions is that they have made substantial financial gains through extortion involving the seizure of commercial spaces, which they do in collusion with public officials.  For a long time, we have been victims of discrimination, humiliation, threats, violence, and dispossession of our places of business. They have fabricated crimes against us in order to get rid of us and continue with their misdeeds. There are also threats that now, in December, starting on the 19th, they will dispossess us all of our places of business, which we have worked so hard to obtain in order to provide for our families with decent work. They are doing all this because we never wanted to play their corrupt games.

For this reason, we wish to publicly denounce Silvia Reyes Sánchez, Artemio Cruz Pérez, Lindoro Sánchez Culebro, Carlos Alberto Trujillo Kanter, Pedro Santiz Mena, Marcelo Santiz López, Miguel Angel Cuello Guillen, and others for the damage and dispossession of our premises. All of this was caused by our request for the board of directors to sign the deed for the premises. However, they are demanding 300,000 pesos for each premises, which is theft.

We call on all institutions and authorities of the Chiapas state government to respect our right to decent work and our shops as a source of economic sustenance for our families, and to put a stop to the dispossession and damage to our places of business.

Given the lack of response from the authorities, we hold the government RESPONSIBLE for the damage caused, the violation of our labor and human rights, and all the consequences that may arise from its failure to act.

Brothers and sisters from different regions, we ask for your solidarity and that you remain attentive to what may happen to us.

Our anger will not be silenced.

Our resistance will not be extinguished.

Zapata lives, the struggle continues!

Long live the #CNI, long live the #CIG, long live the #EZLN!

For Memory, For Life, For THE COMMON GOOD.

NEVER AGAIN A MEXICO WITHOUT US!

Sincerely,

TENANT MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS AND ZAPATISTA EZLN SUPPORT BASES

Original text published by Frayba on December 16th, 2025.
Translation by Schools for Chiapas.

👍 #Buchtipp ❤️🖤

Gegen die Rat- und Rätelosigkeit »Alles muss man selber machen«: Christopher Wimmer über Rätedemokratien gestern und heute 💥

@ndaktuell von Simon Nagy

https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1196418.raetebewegung-gegen-die-rat-und-raetelosigkeit.html

#antiautoritär #chiapas #geschichte #selbstverwaltung #PariserKommune #rojava #sozialismus #basisdemokratie #rätekommunismus #fau #rätemodell #anarchosyndikalismus

Today in Labor History December 22, 1997: Méxican paramilitaries (Mascara Roja) associated with the ruling PRI party massacred 45 indigenous peasants in the village of Acteal, Chiapas, including children. They also stabbed pregnant women in the bellies to murder their unborn children. The peasants were members of the activist group, Las Abejas (the bees), who were supporters of the Zapatistas. In 2020, the government took responsibility for the massacre, and the Human Rights Secretary apologized. However, survivors are demanding that former President Zedillo be tried.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #acteal #massacre #chiapas #mexico #maya #indigenous #zapatista

45 #indigenous people with the #Zapatista movement in #Chiapas, #Mexico, were killed by paramilitaries during a #pacifist prayer meeting on #ThisDayInHistory in 1997. Soldiers tried to cover it up instead of helping, cleaning blood from a church where pregnant women were stabbed.