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Category: Counterinsurgency
Drug traffickers battle each other for more than 24 hours in the border municipalities of La Trinitaria and Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas
By: Ángeles Mariscal Residents of ejidos and communities fled into the mountains. Mexican Army personnel arrived hours later, arrested three people and seized weapons. On Thursday, July 14, residents of the municipality of La Trinitaria, located about 80 kilometers from…
Read MoreForced displacement of 6 Zapatista families in Chilón, houses and belongings burned
New attacks on Support Bases of the Zapatista National Liberation Army Six families from the town of “El Esfuerzo”, Comandanta Ramona Autonomous Municipality. The Federal and State Governments are oblivious in the face of permanent violence and dispossession against autonomous…
Read MoreIACHR asks government for investigation and punishment in Aldama case
By: Angeles Mariscal Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño, president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) asked the Mexican government for “the commitment to arrest those responsible” for the armed attacks on the indigenous population of Aldama Municipality. The president…
Read MoreThe IACHR will visit Chiapas to evaluate precautionary measures in favor of Tsotsils
By: Jessica Xantomila Next week, members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), led by the rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño, will visit Chiapas, for the purpose of evaluating the precautionary measures dictated…
Read MoreA Strategy up for Debate
By: Raúl Romero The tragic murder of the Jesuit priests Javier Campos and Joaquín César Mora and of the tourist guide Pedro Palma, [1] as well as the disappearance of two other people, has sparked the public outpouring of solidarity…
Read MoreCatholics march in 10 Chiapas cities demanding peace and justice
By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas – Thousands of Catholics of the Diocese of San Cristóbal participated in what was called a Pilgrimage for Peace and Justice in at least 10 cities to protest the violence…
Read MoreThe Diocese of San Cristóbal denounces an increase of violence in Chiapas
“Every day in our country we experience insecurity and violence in our streets, schools, businesses and unfortunately also in our churches, places that bring us together as a community to meet with our sisters and brothers and with God,” the…
Read MoreThe Inertia that prevents us from reacting to the collapse
By: Raúl Zibechi That humanity is beginning to suffer the confluence of crises and pandemics that configure a situation of chaos or collapse of life on the planet, seems out of the question. That the ruling classes play their own…
Read MoreMunicipal president of Pantelhó accuses “Los Machetes” of disappearing people, then he’s arrested for the same thing
By: Isaín Mandujano The council president of Pantelhó, Pedro Cortés López, was arrested this afternoon by agents from the State’s Attorney General for the crime of the forced disappearance of 19 people, the crime from which he had disassociated himself…
Read MorePantelhó municipal council’s communiqué accuses Los Machetes of crimes
-Communiqué- Hello, good morning to everyone, I am Pedro Cortés López Councilor President of Pantelhó and, in the name of the Municipal Council, I thank you for your attendance. The reason for this press conference is to announce publicly our…
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