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UNHCR, OHCHR and OIM ask for urgent measures to protect the 3,000 displaced in Frontera Comalapa
By: Editor Yessica Morales *In that border region, the population in human mobility was in the middle of the cartel war and what they seek is to survive. Last May 25, the Jalisco Nueva Generación and Sinaloa cartels confronted each…
Read MoreArmed forces retake control of Frontera Comalapa
From the Editors Yesterday, federal and State security forces, with the support of airplanes, retook control of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas, where several communities were the scene of confrontations between two organized crime groups last week, which caused the displacement of…
Read MoreThe CJNG and El Maíz control Frontera Comalapa with torture and murders
From the Editors Together with the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), the criminal grouping El Maíz has been able to control residents of the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, where there are some 3,000 displaced by the violence. Those who refuse…
Read MoreThe Chiapas Power Keg
By: Luis Hernández Navarro Chiapas is a powder keg about to explode. Violence multiplies alarmingly. Armed attacks by paramilitaries against Zapatista communities are frequent and intensifying. Organized crime groups organize levies (forced recruitment) of young people to swell their armies….
Read MoreFrayba: The opaqueness and inaction of the Mexican State is an imminent threat to peace in Chiapas
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, MéxicoMay 26, 2023Bulletin No. 12 Tension in Zapatista territory On January 1, 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) took up arms, declaring war on the Mexican State, fighting for…
Read MoreShootings and roadblocks paralyze Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas
From the Editors Between Tuesday and Thursday, alleged members of organized crime groups sustained shootouts and maintained intermittent roadblocks at different points on the highway located between the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas, and the border with Guatemala due to…
Read MoreAMLO issues new decree so that mega-projects are considered as national security
By: Desinformémonos Editors May 19, 2023 Mexico City | Desinformémonos President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) issued a new decree considering the federal government’s infrastructure projects to be national security matters, just hours after the Supreme Court of Justice of…
Read MoreArmed group loots barite in Chicomuselo and threatens residents
By: Elio Henríquez, CorrespondentSan Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas Unidentified individuals began to remove, with the support of armed men, barite extracted a few years ago by the Canadian company BlackFire Exploration Mexico from a mine located in the Grecia…
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