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DURAN MATUTE, Inés. Transnational community solidarity of the Indigenous Governing Council (IGC) for a new kind of democracy, justice and freedom. Migr. desarro [online]. 2018, vol.16, n.31, pp.41-70. ISSN 1870-7599.

In may, 2017, the National Indigenous Congress (NIC/CNI) and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) created the Indigenous Governing Council (IGC/CIG), and appointed a spokesperson to run in Mexico's 2018 Presidential Election. The aim was not to take power, but rather to use the electoral space to organize from below and build a new project of government and society. This proposal was not exclusively directed at Mexican society, but sought at a global scale to challenge a racist, classist and patriarchal capitalist system. Therefore, this article maps out the transnational reach of the IGC/CIG toward a common objective and illustrates how we are invited to rethink democracy, freedom and justice, in hand with other sectors. Further, it sets out the possibilities for confronting hierarchical structures and the control of lives, spaces and minds in an ever-more globalized world.

Palabras llave : transnational networks; migration; indigenous peoples; social movements; democracy.

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