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Zapatista Health Promoters Demand Justice in La Realidad

Zapatista health care providers gathered in La Realidad, holding art that demands justice for the killing of fellow Zapatista, Galeano. The Zapatistas have an extensive autonomous health and education system that they built throughout their communities. Thousands gathered in La Realidad to show their digna rabia – or dignified rage, and demand justice and an end to the on-going violence directed towards Zapatista indigenous communities in Chiapas. The May 2nd attack was the first such attack directly in a Zapatista Caracol – or Cultural Center of Resistance and Autonomous Governance.