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Category: Organized Crime
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,…
Read MoreThey 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…
Read MoreCartels 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…
Read MoreCriminality 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…
Read MoreMore 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…
Read MoreChiapas activists lament the increased presence of organized crime
By: Elio Henríquez, correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas The Women’s Movement in Defense of Mother Earth and Our Territories expressed its concern about “the increase in organized crime, the sale and consumption of chemical drugs, the circulation of…
Read MoreOrganized crime and extractivism
By: Raúl Zibechi Organized crime, parastate or drug trafficking, are the forms assumed by accumulation by dispossession/extractivism in the zone of non-being, that is, in the territories of the native, black and campesino peoples of Latin America. Although they are…
Read MoreMalverde in Chamula
Jesús Malverde is a historical folk hero in Sinaloa, a sort of Robin Hood or angel of the poor. He is worshipped as a saint and believed to perform miracles, much to the dismay of the Catholic Church. Although often…
Read More“Scooters” cause fear in San Cristóbal: 10 arrested
From the Editors of La Jornada Hundreds of residents of the Cuxtitali el Pinar ejido, who demanded the liberation of Pablo Pérez Sántiz, who is alleged to head a group of gang members that travel on motorcycles, now in prison…
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