State Forum for the Defense of Human Rights, land, and society (@Radio Proletaria)
On 14 July, state police in Tuxtla Gutiérrez detained Pablo César Gómez Alfaro, spokesperson and representative of the Emiliano Zapata Proletarian Organization-Movement for National Liberation (OPEZ-MLN), despite the fact that this organization currently maintains a process of dialogue and negotiation with the state government. Gómez Alfaro is the son of Caralampio Gómez Hernández, who is the director of OPEZ-MLN, who was arrested on 12 April, accused for the crimes of damages, attempted homicide, and attacks on communication media.
THe Independent Campesino Social Movement which includes beyond the OPEZ-MLN the Coordination of Campesino and Popular Organizations (COCyP), the Emiliano Zapata Campesino Organization-Carranza Region (OCEZ-RC), the Teachers’ Network for Popular Support, and the Popular Resistance Front against the Federal Electricity Commission in Huixtán has denounced this second detention.
This arrest has been termed “yet another treasonous act” by Guillermo Hernández Pérez, state director of the COCyP, given state authorities’ indication of goodwill they had given to social organizations upon their suspension of the sit-in they had maintained in the Cathedral Plaza in San Cristóbal de Las Casas. During the “State Forum for the Defense of Human Rights, land, and society,” which was held on 17 May in the same city, the Independent Campesino Social Movement announced “actions in different parts of Chiapas on 25 June, culminating with a state march on the 30th of June in solidarity with the national university movement #IAm132.”
For more information (in Spanish):
Detienen a dirigente de la organización Emiliano Zapata (La Jornada 15 de junio de 2012)
Arrestan a líder social en Chiapas (El Universal, 14 de junio de 2012)
FORO ESTATAL EN DEFENZA DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS (Radio Proletaria, 17 de junio de 2012)
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