CRISIS EN LA COMUNIDAD REVOLUCIONARIA INSTITUCIONAL.

En el ano 2010 Chamula asiste en dos ocasiones al Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federacion (TEPJF ). Siendo un municipio cuyos habitantes han defendido con fuerza sus propias instituciones de gobierno y lo que ellos llaman sus «usos y costumbres» para decidir desde dentro los asuntos relativos a su vida politica, sorprende su presencia en los tribunales electorales ?Como llega Chamula a los tribunales y por que? ?Que coyuntura surgio en el ano 2010 que fracturo esa estructura solida de voluntad autonomista? ?Que factores intervinieron para hacer posible que se configurara una conflictividad de dimensiones tales que debilitara su capacidad para resolver desde dentro sus conflictos electorales, y tuviera que recurrirse a los tribunales estatal y federal? Adicionalmente, el caso muestra las serias dificultades que enfrenta el TEPJF para interpretar adecuadamente el ejercicio de derechos politicos y electorales cuando estan en juego los sistemas normativos internos de los pueblos indigenas   THE INSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNITY CHAMULA CRISIS. Chamula in the Electoral Tribunal (2010) the year 2010, Chamula attended the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Branch (TEPJF by its acronym in Spanish) on two different occasions. Chamula is a municipality the inhabitants of which have strongly defended their own government institutions as well as their own indigenous customary law, known as «usos y costumbres» (i.e., «customs and traditions »), in order to make decisions within the community regarding issues related to their political life. It is thus surprising to find the Chamula community present in the electoral tribunals. How did Chamula get to the tribunals and why? What juncture was created in Chamula in the year 2010 that fractured its firm autonomy-based structure? What factors intervened to give shape to a conflict of such dimensions that it weakened their capacity to solve electoral issues from within, pushing them to resort to state and federal tribunals? In addition, the case illustrates the serious difficulties that the TEPJF faces to appropriately interpret the exercise of political and electoral rights when indigenous internal regulatory systems are at stake