Indigenous resistance in contemporary Mexico: The struggle of the Chiapas\u00a0toques, the National Indigenous Congress and the proposal of an independent candidate to the presidency of the republic in 2018.<\/em><\/p>\nEn M\u00e9xico, a partir de d\u00e9cada de los noventa, se registra la implementaci\u00f3n del primer paquete de pol\u00edticas neoliberales, las cuales se afianzar\u00e1n en un contexto de creciente corrupci\u00f3n burocr\u00e1tica as\u00ed como del fortalecimiento de las actividades del narcotr\u00e1fico. Esta situaci\u00f3n no s\u00f3lo generar\u00e1 el aumento en la violencia y la violaci\u00f3n sistem\u00e1tica de los derechos humanos en amplios sectores de la poblaci\u00f3n mexicana, sino que tambi\u00e9n facilitar\u00e1 el despojo de amplios territorios ind\u00edgenas. Cabe se\u00f1alar, que este contexto se recrudecer\u00e1 a partir de la legislaci\u00f3n e implementaci\u00f3n de diversas reformas constitucionales en materia hacendaria y de energ\u00eda -aprobadas durante los \u00faltimos cinco a\u00f1os- las cuales han acrecentado la llegada de compa\u00f1\u00edas transnacionales que buscan explotar los recursos naturales localizados en su gran mayor\u00eda en territorios ind\u00edgenas. Un ejemplo, es el caso de los zoques de Chiapas quienes en la actualidad emprenden una lucha en contra de la licitaci\u00f3n de sus tierras (84,500 hect\u00e1reas) para la explotaci\u00f3n de 12 pozos petroleros. Es bajo esta t\u00f3nica, como la charla analizar\u00e1 la actual crisis pol\u00edtica y humanitaria que vive M\u00e9xico, as\u00ed como de reflexionar sobre las lucha de resistencia ind\u00edgena a trav\u00e9s de un estudio de caso y su vinculaci\u00f3n con el movimiento nacional ind\u00edgena, todo ello, con el objetivo de mostrar las nuevas tensiones y alternativas pol\u00edtico-organizativas que los pueblos ind\u00edgenas est\u00e1n detonando en su camino por construir la autonom\u00eda.<\/p>\n
English translation:<\/strong><\/p>\nIn this paper, I will analyze the current political and humanitarian crisis in Mexico, and consider how this relates to indigenous resistance struggle. 1990s Mexico saw the implementation of neoliberal policies, an increase in bureaucratic corruption and the strengthening of drug trafficking activities and violence, leading to the systematic violation of human rights in large sectors of the Mexican population and the dispossession of large indigenous territories. This context was reinforced by legislation and the implementation of various finance and energy reforms in the last five years enabling the entry of transnational companies seeking to exploit the natural resources located in mainly indigenous territories. In this talk, I will consider the resistance struggles of the zoques of Chiapas, who are currently struggling against bids for their lands (84,500 hectares) for the exploitation of 12 oil wells. I will consider links the zoques are creating with a national indigenous movement, and the new tensions and political-organizational alternatives that Mexican indigenous peoples are instigating in order to construct autonomy.<\/p>\n
P<\/strong>onente<\/strong><\/p>\nPlease note that this talk will be delivered in Spanish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When: Wednesday 1st March 2017, 5:15-6:45pm Where: Room 1177, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: Fort\u00edno Dom\u00ednguez Rueda, Universidad de Guadalajara Resistencias ind\u00edgenas en el M\u00e9xico contempor\u00e1neo: La lucha de los zoques de Chiapas, el Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena y la propuesta de una candidata independiente a la presidencia de la rep\u00fablica en el 2018. (Indigenous resistance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57,1],"tags":[450062,1037928,65479,733336,987386],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-uncategorized","tag-human-rights","tag-indigenous","tag-mexico","tag-mexsu","tag-resistance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Sp7t-lw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}