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Below is a list of online resources of interest to activists visiting Oaxaca and Chiapas, as well as a few resources for other countries in Latin America. For a list of more human rights organizations and NGOs operating in Chiapas and Oaxaca, see CASA's Partners.

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Websites

Chiapas Human Rights Organizations

  • CAPISE "Our work is centered on the research, analysis, promotion and defense of the collective rights of the indigenous peoples of Chiapas. The implementation of these rights guarantees the collective capacity of indigenous peoples to thrive cuturally, politically, economically, and socially."
  • Center for Human Rights, Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas "Fray Ba" sends human rights delegations to Chiapas communities.
  • Centro de Derechos de la Mujer is The Center for Women's Rights
  • CIEPAC
  • Enlace Civil (in Spanish) Enlace Civil A. C. surgió a partir de una solicitud de un grupo de comunidades indígenas de las regiones Altos, Selva y Norte del suroriental estado mexicano de Chiapas.

Delegations

  • BorderLinks is a not-for-profit organization that conducts travel seminars focusing on the issues of Mexican border communities.

Mailing Lists

  • Chiapas 95 is a group of mailing lists which distribute news and debate about Chiapas culled from other lists on the internet, from conferences on PeaceNet and elsewhere online.
  • Mexico-US Solidarity Network (MSN) is dedicated to the struggle for democracy, economic justice and human rights on both sides of the US-Mexico border.

News Services

Oaxaca

Other Countries in Latin America

  • agora.tv "Producing an imagery that corresponds to our interests and needs as a working class, to our cultural traditions, our history, our comunities. We demand the right to create or own media".  The website offers video presentations on factory recuperations and on other Argentine social justice issues.
  • EntreMundos helps volunteers find appropriate and satisfying work in and around Xela (Quetzaltenango, Guatemala).

Reference Tools

  • BBC Country Profiles are offer brief recent histories and political background of every country, including the Americas. Their perspective occasionally acknowledges the US's interventionist role in the region.
  • Democracy Now! - Search for Zapatistas is a syndicated radio program that has covered Zapatista news stories. This link searches their archives for all stories. Also manually search for "Chiapas".
  • Tomisimo A fairly comprehensive and easy to use Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionary. If you find a better one, let us know!

Zapatistas

  • Enlace Zapatista
  • EZLN (Spanish) The website for the Zapatista National Liberation Army.
  • Otra del Otro Lado
  • Radio Insurgente "The voice for those without voice." RADIO INSURGENTE is an independent radio station (available online as streaming audio) and the official voice of the National Zapatista Liberation Army (EZLN).
  • Radio Zapatista is a monthly radio program broadcast on Pacifica radio covering news of the Other Campaign in English and Spanish. Archived shows available online as mp3s. Radio Zapatista is a program of the Chiapas Support Committee and La Onda Bajita.
  • Zapatista Index "This is an index of all the material we know of in English on the EZLN / Zapatistas and on the rebellion in Chiapas. It also contains sections on movements elsewhere in Mexico and on Mexican history."
  • ZNet Chiapas Watch Translated writings of the EZLN, analysis of the conflict and of connections with other struggles.

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