{"id":16142,"date":"2013-02-08T16:06:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T23:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16142"},"modified":"2013-02-08T16:06:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T23:06:42","slug":"a-day-in-chiapas-not-so-unlike-a-day-in-bahrain-oppressive-misery-and-looting-in-the-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16142","title":{"rendered":"A day in Chiapas not so unlike a day in Bahrain – oppressive misery and looting in the forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chiapas: Indigenous Ch\u2019oles block highway in north of the state<\/strong>
\n5 February, 2013 – SIPAZ blog<\/p>\n

On 5 February, in observance of the 96th anniversary of the Mexican Constitution, approximately 450 Ch\u2019ol women and men who pertain to the organization Laklumal Ixim (Our People of Maize) initiated a highway blockade on the Yajal\u00f3n-Tila route so as to demonstrate that nearly two months into the administration of the new state government, \u201cthe communities and peoples continue to experience abandonment, misery, and looting.\u201d In the communique participants denounce that \u201cthe \u2018National Crusade against hunger\u2019 is a farce that seeks merely to share crumbs to our communities that experience poverty, while our natural resources are handed over to foreign firms for exploitation. This is all a part of a strategy of counter-insurgency.\u201d Furthermore, the members of the organization demand \u201cthat the Chiapas state-government cease this strategy of looting and abandonment toward the indigenous and campesino communities of the state, and that they instead attend to our demands and needs: a just price for electricity in accordance with the poverty of our people, quality healthcare and education, dignified infrastructure (homes, works, and roads), support for coffee-growers, projects and programs of support for the countryside to help women and men of indigenous communities, respect for our rights\u2013ejidal, communal, and indigenous\u2013cessation of the strategy of division and confrontation among communities as promoted by the FANAR (previously PROCEDE) that is being promoted above all by the agrarian governmental agency.\u201d …source<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chiapas: Indigenous Ch\u2019oles block highway in north of the state 5 February, 2013 – SIPAZ blog On 5 February, in observance of the 96th anniversary of the Mexican Constitution, approximately 450 Ch\u2019ol women and men who pertain to the organization Laklumal Ixim (Our People of Maize) initiated a highway blockade on the Yajal\u00f3n-Tila route so more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3972],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16144,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16142\/revisions\/16144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}