Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Counterinsurgency


Criminal groups displace residents from the Lacandón Jungle

By: Ángeles Mariscal [1] On December 16, 2021, the Velasco family was expelled from Nueva Palestina community, the largest community in the Lacandón Jungle [2], Months before, the family’s father, Versaín Velasco García, had denounced the impact that groups linked to trafficking drugs,…

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They disappear seven ejido authorities in the “death zone” of Chamic, Chiapas

The campesinos were last seen on March 22 when they left the Nueva Libertad ejido, municipality of Frontera Comalapa, in the direction of Palenque, but they never reached their destination. By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas. (apro) A group of…

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Cartels arrive in the Lacandon: “It’s the worst time in the Jungle,” residents point out

This may be the first journalistic report of drug cartels murdering jungle residents, taking over a community and causing forced displacements. By: Ángeles Mariscal They take possession of landing strips in the area Chiapas – In the Lacandón Jungle, located…

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Criminality and Violence in the Chiapas Highlands

By: Mónica Daniela Osorio Reyes y Edgar Baltazar Landeros* It has been almost eight months since June 14, 2022, in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, a group of armed civilians took over the northern part of the municipality, shooting…

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More armed groups emerge in Pantelhó, Chiapas

By: Ángeles Mariscal Three armed groups have emerged so far this month, in the municipality of Pantelhó, located in the Chiapas Highlands, an indigenous region. Armed with high-powered weapons, these groups verbally confronted the self-defense group called “El Machete” through…

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The storms from above

By: Raúl Zibechi They are multiple and simultaneous. They are environmental, military, political, paramilitary, economic and femicidal storms. It’s drug trafficking as an arm of the states and the powerful. It’s a policy of accumulation of capital and of power,…

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They demand immediate freedom for Manuel Gómez Vázquez, a Zapatista

By: Yessica Morales Manuel, a 22-year-old Tseltal campesino, is a native of Ricardo Flores Magón autonomous Zapatista rebel municipality, Good Government Junta Rebel Thought, Caracol IX, Nuevo Jerusalén, located in the official municipality of Ocosingo. *The oral trial hearing was…

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Relatives of Simón Pedro Pérez reject an abbreviated trial of his killer

By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas. (apro) Human rights defenders, members of the civil organization Las Abejas of Acteal and relatives of Simón Pedro Pérez López demanded justice for the indigenous leader from the Chiapas Prosecutor’s Office and the judge…

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In Chiapas, a new armed group emerges in Pantelhó; They say they will confront Los Machetes

By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) A new armed group emerged in the Chiapas Highlands and says its members have all of Pantelhó surrounded. They say that if the government doesn’t intervene to stop “the criminal actions” of Los…

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Second Call to the Caravan and International Gathering the South Resists! 2023

To the peoples in resistance and rebellion of the South-Southeast of Mexico To national and international organizations of struggle below and to the left To the world’s human rights organizations To free, alternative or whatever media are called After meeting…

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