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Category: Organized Crime
Violence in Chiapas opens the way for looting resources, the Bishop says
By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas Scenarios of violence such as those prevailing in some regions of Chiapas favor the entry of transnational companies for the imposition of megaprojects and the dispossession of natural resources of…
Read MorePostcards from the war. Part II
By: Raúl Romero* Tuesday, July 5, 2023, in Nayarit, La Jornada correspondent Luis Martín Iñiguez Sánchez is disappeared. A few days later they will find his lifeless body. Monday, July 10, 2023, in Guerrero, more than 5 thousand people, identified…
Read MorePostcards from the War
By: Raúl Romero Wednesday, June 28, a car bomb explodes in Guanajuato; in Tapachula, Chiapas, a grenade is thrown at a Secretary of Public Security base. Thursday, June 29, former vigilante leader Hipólito Mora is assassinated in Michoacán. Friday, June…
Read MoreCatholics of Frontera Comalapa ask for peace and maintaining vigilance
They demand that the government ally with citizens, and not with organized crime! By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas Around 4,000 Catholics from the municipality of Frontera Comalapa made a pilgrimage yesterday [July 2, 2023] to…
Read MoreIncessant violence
By: Luis Hernández Navarro On June 1, narco-banners were hung on four pedestrian bridges in the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas. Ten days later, notices reappeared on public roads, indicating that the Army took journalists to report on risk areas….
Read MoreWho do the paramilitaries serve in Chiapas?
By: Raúl Romero* The phenomenon of paramilitarism is historical and widely studied in Latin America. Paramilitaries are armed civilian groups, trained, financed and/or permitted by states. By means of violence, their task consists of maintaining control of the population, eliminating the resistances…
Read MoreStop the counterinsurgency war in Chiapas, the OCSS demands
Yesterday, members of the Campesino Organization of the Southern Sierra blocked the Coyuca Bridge, located in the Costa Grande region of Guerrero, in solidarity with the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). By: Sergio Ocampo Arista, CorrespondentChilpancingo, Guerrero Members of the…
Read MoreLa Santa Muerte
Luis Hernández Navarro La Santa Muerte and Malverde are everywhere in San Cristóbal de las Casas and in Chiapas cities like Teopisca. Their cult is not hidden. The markets are replete with ritual elements appropriate for their veneration. The herbal and…
Read MoreFrontera Comalapa: Partial return of those displaced by drug cartels
By: Ángeles Mariscal “Andrés Manuel López Obrador said ‘hugs not bullets’, but we are not receiving the hugs, we are receiving pure bullets,” point out residents of the border zone of Chiapas with Guatemala. Terror is experienced in the town…
Read MoreUNHCR, 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…
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