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Criminality 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 MoreThe storms from above
By: Raúl Zibechi They are multiple and simultaneous. They are environmental, military, political, paramilitary, economic and femicidal storms. It’s drug trafficking as an arm of the states and the powerful. It’s a policy of accumulation of capital and of power,…
Read MoreThey demand immediate freedom for Manuel Gómez Vázquez, a Zapatista
By: Yessica Morales Manuel, a 22-year-old Tseltal campesino, is a native of Ricardo Flores Magón autonomous Zapatista rebel municipality, Good Government Junta Rebel Thought, Caracol IX, Nuevo Jerusalén, located in the official municipality of Ocosingo. *The oral trial hearing was…
Read MoreRelatives of Simón Pedro Pérez reject an abbreviated trial of his killer
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas. (apro) Human rights defenders, members of the civil organization Las Abejas of Acteal and relatives of Simón Pedro Pérez López demanded justice for the indigenous leader from the Chiapas Prosecutor’s Office and the judge…
Read MoreIn Chiapas, a new armed group emerges in Pantelhó; They say they will confront Los Machetes
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) A new armed group emerged in the Chiapas Highlands and says its members have all of Pantelhó surrounded. They say that if the government doesn’t intervene to stop “the criminal actions” of Los…
Read MoreSamir Flores: four years without justice
A La Jornada Editorial On February 20, 2019, the indigenous Morelos activist Samir Flores Soberanes, a member of the Permanent Assembly of the Peoples of Morelos and the founder of Radio Amiltzinko, was shot and killed in front of his…
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…
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