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Agrarian Court rules in favor of Chenalhó in Chiapas territorial conflict
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) After the Unitary Agrarian Tribunal (UAT) ruled in favor of the communal wealth of Chenalhó, the state and federal governments offered 300 houses and 15 million pesos to compensate the five thousand people…
Read MoreFour children and 2 adults displaced from Chalchihuitán die from cold and hunger
By: Blanche Petrich Four displaced children died from cold and hunger last week in the icy parts of Chalchihuitán, in the Chiapas Highlands. Two adults also died, according to what the municipal president municipal of that municipality, Martín Gómez Pérez,…
Read MoreThere is a worrisome inability to govern in Chiapas
IN CHIAPAS “THERE IS A WORRISOME INABILITY TO GOVERN:” ACADEMIC By: Hermann Bellinghausen Being a situation latent and encouraged for years, since last October, when an age-old conflict over boundaries between the Tsotsil municipalities of Chenalhó and Chalchihuitán sharpened to…
Read MoreNarco-politics in Chiapas, a time bomb that increases the risk of another massacre
By: Blanche Petrich Three weeks ago, the parish priest of Simojovel, Marcelo Pérez, started to tour the steep trajectory of at least four hours that goes from his parish to the border communities between Chenalhó and Chalchihuitán, in Los…
Read More7,000 displaced due to violence in Chiapas
VIOLENCE AND DISPLACEMENTS ESCALATE DUE TO THE CONFLICT IN CHIAPAS A Special Report by: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) The director of the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba), Pedro Faro, warned that another massacre like…
Read MoreWomen victims of abuse in Atenco narrate police atrocities
By: Emir Olivares Alonso The women that denounced the Mexican State before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Coridh) for the sexual torture of which they were victims during the police operation in San Salvador Atenco [1] the early morning…
Read MoreThe offensive of above, versus the movement below
Those of us who are the National Indigenous Congress (CNI); indigenous peoples, nations, tribes and barrios of this country, make a call to the indigenous and non-indigenous peoples of Mexico, to the honest human rights organizations, to the communications media,…
Read MoreCNI | EZLN Solidarity and support for our brothers and sisters of the Wixárika people
To the Wixárika People To the Peoples of the World Gathered together in the Constitutive Assembly of the Indigenous Council for Mexico at CIDECI–UNITIERRA, Chiapas, the indigenous peoples, nations, and tribes who make up the National Indigenous Congress and the…
Read MoreZibechi: They assassinate journalists to discipline the media
By: Raúl Zibechi They are not, they cannot be, the collateral and undesired effects of the war on drugs. Critical journalists are one of the objectives; not the only one, because the principal target continues to be those below that…
Read MoreIACHR finds the State responsible for death of Tzeltal
By: José Antonio Román The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) concluded that the Mexican State is responsible for violating the right to life of the Tzeltal Gilberto Jiménez Hernández, executed at the hands of members of the Army in…
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