Dispatches from Mexico #1: The Congreso Nacional Indigena

 

2017

Delegates from the 5th Congress of the CNI describe their mission and struggle. The Zapatistas throw a party for the occasion in Caracol Oventic, Chiapas.
Discussion of communal self-government, neoliberal threats to indigenous territories, the significance of traditional celebrations, survival through autonomy.
English subtitles

with Joe Bender

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