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El Zersetzung cubano: Las tácticas disruptivas de la Stasi empleadas por el Gobierno Cubano para desintegrar la vida de la iglesia en Cuba

Posted on 11/05/202211/06/2024 by cswpress in Cuba ES, español, Latin America ES

El Ministerium für Staatsicherheit, más comúnmente conocido como la Stasi, fue el servicio oficial de seguridad del Estado de la República Democrática Alemana (RDA), una de las agencias de policía secreta más represivas y conocidas de la historia.

Desde su fundación en febrero de 1950, hasta la caída del muro de Berlín en noviembre de 1989, la Stasi creó una vasta red de inteligencia, recopilando información y apuntando a individuos y grupos en todas las esferas de la vida con una eficiencia despiadada e insidiosa.

La Stasi empleó varias técnicas básicas en sus ataques contra individuos y comunidades. Los interrogatorios persistentes, la difusión de información difamatoria, los arrestos repetidos, los ataques físicos y los ataques contra familiares y amigos como palanca eran todos comunes. Estas técnicas formaron la base de Zersetzung, una misión con el objetivo de interrumpir o “desintegrar” la estructura y el trabajo de los grupos y la vida de los individuos.

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Tú eres mi otro yo: La importancia de educar a las mujeres mexicanas del futuro

Posted on 09/05/2022 by cswpress in español, Latin America ES, Mexico ES

Florinda tenía apenas 11 años cuando su familia fue desplazada de la comunidad de San José Yashtinín, Municipio de San Cristóbal de las Casas, en el estado de Chiapas, México en 2012. No pudo continuar con sus estudios durante dos años después del desplazamiento de su familia porque el papeleo y los certificados que necesitaba para inscribirse en una nueva escuela se quedaron en el lugar del que tuvo que huir. En 2019 en una entrevista con CSW mencionó que esperaba terminar sus estudios para enseñar a otros niños.

Otra mujer, Alma, tenía 17 años cuando su educación fue interrumpida después de que su familia fuera desplazada por la fuerza de su comunidad en Tuxpan de Bolaños, Municipio de Bolaños, en el Estado de Jalisco, en diciembre de 2017. Posteriormente no pudo inscribirse en una nueva escuela, por lo que tuvo que renunciar a sus planes de convertirse en enfermera.

Hace tres años, para conmemorar el Día del Niño en México, Alma viajó a la Ciudad de México para reunirse con funcionarios del gobierno. También se reunió con el Consejo Nacional para Prevenir la Discriminación (CONAPRED) quien lamentó lo sucedido: “Les debemos una disculpa, este país les debe una disculpa… Ciertamente hemos fallado en el proceso, pero estamos aquí para protegerte, para que tu trayectoria en la vida sea lo que tú has deseado que sea“.

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Cuban Zersetzung: The disruptive Stasi tactics employed by the Cuban government to disintegrate church life in Cuba

Posted on 05/05/2022 by cswpress in Cuba, Latin America

The Ministerium für Staatsicherheit, more commonly known as the Stasi, was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), one of the most repressive and well-known secret police agencies in history.

From its foundation in February 1950, to the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989, the Stasi created a vast intelligence network, gathering information and targeting individuals and groups in every sphere of life with ruthless and insidious efficiency.

The Stasi employed several staple techniques in their attacks against individuals and communities. Persistent questioning, the spreading of slanderous information, repeated arrests, physical attacks and the targeting of family and friends as leverage were all commonplace. These techniques formed the basis of Zersetzung, a mission with the objective of disrupting or ‘disintegrating’ the structure and work of groups and the lives of individuals.

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You are my other me: The importance of educating the Mexican women of the future

Posted on 29/04/202224/06/2022 by cswpress in Latin America, Mexico

Florinda was just 11 years old when her family was displaced from the community of San José Yashtinín, San Cristóbal de las Casas Municipality, in Mexico’s Chiapas State in 2012. She was unable to continue with her studies for around two years following her family’s displacement because the paperwork and certificates she needed to enrol in a new school were left behind. In 2019 she told CSW she hoped to finish her studies in order to teach other children.

Another woman, Alma, was 17 years old when her education was interrupted after her family was forcibly displaced from their village of Tuxpan de Bolaños, Bolaños Municipality, Jalisco State, in December 2017. She was subsequently unable to enrol in a new school, derailing her plans to become a nurse.

Three years ago, to mark Children’s Day in the country, Alma travelled to Mexico City to meet with government officials. She also met with the National Council to Prevent Discrimination (CONAPRED) who expressed regret for what had happened: “We owe you an apology, this country owes you an apology…We have certainly failed in the process but we are here to protect you, so that your trajectory in life is what you want it to be.”

This year, as Mexico observes Children’s Day, we call for more than an apology; we call for action.

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‘Kashmir Files’ – A film used to fuel religious intolerance in India

Posted on 25/04/2022 by cswpress in Asia, India

The Indian film Kashmir Files has been mired in controversy since its release on 11 March. The 270-minute-long film, directed by Vivek Agnihotri, an open supporter of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), focuses on the brutal killings of estimates of between 30 and 80 Kashmiri Pandits or Kashmiri Hindus from 1988-1990 and their exodus from Indian Administered Kashmir.

The film revolves around a young student who finally discovers that his parents were killed by Muslim militants and not by accident, as his grandfather had told him. The student is caught between two conflicting narratives, that of his grandfather who is seeking justice for the exodus, and that of his mentor – a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) professor who tells him no such appeasement is necessary.

The historical events on which the film is based occurred in the 1990s, amidst a rising insurgency in Kashmir, when the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), a militant separatist organisation comprising Muslims, targeted the state’s minority Hindus – Kashmiri Pandits – forcing an estimated 75% of the Hindu population to leave the state and seek refuge in other parts of India. Governments in power since then, including the BJP, have done little for their resettlement.

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