Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Organized Crime


Armed 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…

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The 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…

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The 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….

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Shootings 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…

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A Municipal agent, his daughter and son disappear, 300 meters from a military post in Chiapas

By: Isaín Mandujano In the ejido Sinaloa, municipality of Frontera Comalapa, fear is lived, terror is breathed. irst it was the Ejidal Commissioner, Rolando Rodríguez Molares kidnapped and disappeared in September 2022; seven months later they came for the municipal…

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Frontera Comalapa: A new armed group rises against the CJNJ and an Update

According to a video translated by Borderland Beat, “a new armed group has emerged in a video in the Chiapas municipality of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas. Within this broadcast they claim to defend indigenous citizens from extortion by an opposing cartel….

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San Cristóbal, under police and military siege

By: Isaín Mandujano After the violent events on Monday that left three people riddled with bullets and three houses burned, the municipal and state police forces, as well as the Mexican Army and the National Guard (NG) took control of…

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They murder 3, set houses on fire and block streets in San Cristóbal

Bloody dispute between gangs of Motonetos By: Elio Henríquez, CorrespondentSan Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas Yesterday, the city experienced an escalation of violence for eight hours, which started with the murder of Gerónimo Ruiz López, leader of a group of…

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Indigenous people: Impunity and social decomposition

By: Magdalena Gómez On April 4, 2023, the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas issued a very strong communication directed at the three levels of government. Unfortunately, its central thesis coincides with what happens in other regions of the…

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Bishops warn about an increase of narco-violence in Chiapas

By: Isaín Mandujano Bishops of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas warned today of an increase in narco-violence in Chiapas and the social decomposition that is being experienced in at least 28 municipalities in the state. In view…

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