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Category: Counterinsurgency
Cristóbal Sántiz is free, more than 2 years after his arrest
The community defender was arrested when leaving work in San Cristóbal de Las Casas by officials of the Chiapas Attorney General’s specialized police By: Yessica Morales El Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba)…
Read MoreGuacamaya Leaks: The Narco uses 6 routes to move drugs through Chiapas
By: Alfredo Fuentes | El Sol de Mexico Organized crime groups that traffic drugs from Central America to Mexico and the United States use at least six routes that cross through Chiapas by land and sea, indicate documents of Mexico’s…
Read MoreGuacamaya leaks: Sinaloa Cartel dominates in Chiapas
By: Omar Rivera | El Sol de México The Army recognizes that the Sinaloa Cartel is the one with a “presence in most of the state of Chiapas” and that maintains a territorial struggle against the Jalisco Cartel New Generation…
Read MoreThey deny return to those displaced from Santa Martha, and accuse them of killing 6
By: Ángeles Mariscal Residents of Santa Martha, Chenalhó [those who remain there), accused the group of more than 30 families that were displaced from that community of breaking an agreement for the distribution of lands and murdering six of their…
Read MoreIndigenous peoples continue struggling for their rights and survival
By: Carolina Gómez Mena, Fernando Camacho and Jessica Xantomila After 530 years since the arrival of the Europeans on the American continent, the struggle of the indigenous peoples for their territories and their survival continues, in an atmosphere where the…
Read MoreFrom the Maya Train to sympathizers “with a foreign appearance,” Sedena’s constant siege against the Zapatistas
Leaked emails from Sedena (Mexico’s Secretary of National Defense) Have allowed us to know that the EZLN is one of the most besieged by military intelligence due to its posture of rejecting the megaprojects and government programs. By: Jacobo García…
Read MoreChenalhó, Chiapas, the struggle for land via the armed path
By: Ángeles Mariscal Seven days of constant attacks have passed, without the government being able to intervene to stop the confrontation that is being waged within the Santa Martha Chenalhó armed group, over the possession of 49.5 hectares of land….
Read MoreArmed group burns houses, murders opponents, displaces 32 families who flee to Polhó
By: Ángeles Mariscal This Tuesday marks six days since factions of the armed group that formed in Santa Martha, Chenalhó, in the Chiapas Highlands, have confronted each other. No authority of the three levels of government has entered the place,…
Read MoreArmed group in Chenalhó keeps a community under siege, and murders several residents
By: Ángeles Mariscal Since Thursday, September 29, an armed group of approximately 60 people in Santa Martha, Chenalhó, has kept the Atzamiló community, located within the same ejido, under siege; it killed at least four people, denounced residents. The events occurred because…
Read MoreMexico III. Father Marcelo: “The earth groans the pains of childbirth”
Raúl Zibechi interviews Father Marcelo By: Raúl Zibechi “We are living something similar to the times of Jesus. The Romans had no mercy. The narco has no mercy,” says Father Marcelo Pérez, sitting in the dining room of the parish…
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