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Category: Paramilitary Violence
EZLN: We will go to find what makes us equal // despite oblivion, we live
Zapatistas will go to Europe to say that they continue in resistance and rebellion By: Hermann Bellinghausen The Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) announced that in April 2021 several of their diverse delegations will travel…
Read MoreThey injure a campesino in Tabak, Aldama, Chiapas
By: Hermann Bellinghausen In the midst of incessant gunfire attacks against the Tsotsil communities of Aldama, Chiapas, this morning Artemio Pérez Pérez, 25, was wounded in the chest in the community of Tabak, of which he is a native. The…
Read MoreAldama, Chiapas, reports 8 armed attacks in 24 hours
By: Elio Henríquez, Tuesday, September 29, 2020 https://www.jornada.com.mx/2020/09/29/politica/004n3pol San Cristóbal De Las Casas, Chiapas The mayor of Aldama, Rodolfo López Gómez, reported that yesterday “reports were received about eight armed attacks with different caliber weapons” from different points in the…
Read MoreAldama, Chiapas, lives threatened by paramilitaries
By: Hermann Bellinghausen Tsotsil Maya residents of Magdalena Aldama, in the Chiapas Highlands, denounced incessant armed attacks from Chenalhó against many Aldama communities: “Today we reiterate once again that here in our town we live under threat, under the rain…
Read MoreTila, political bosses, paramilitaries and autonomy
By: Luis Hernández Navarro For centuries, the Lord of Tila has been venerated with fervor. On the Feasts of Corpus Christi, the Holy Cross, in Holy Week and the miraculous renewal of January 15, thousands of devoted faithful celebrate him….
Read MoreChiapas: the law of déjà vu
By: Hermann Bellinghausen Governments may change, but the counterinsurgency war against the people in Chiapas is ongoing; and judging by the events of recent months in the mountains of Maya territories, in 2020 it worsened on a scale not seen…
Read MoreChiapas, the return of Paz y Justicia
By: Luis Hernández Navarro Terror returned to Tila, Chiapas, hand in hand with the resurgence of the paramilitary group named Desarrollo, Paz y Justicia (Development, Peace and Justice). One after another, armed attacks, assassinations, sieges and all kinds of aggressions…
Read MoreThe paramilitary group Paz y Justicia perpetrated the attack, the autonomous ejido says
By: Hermann Bellinghausen and Elio Henríquez, Reporter and Correspondent The violence in Tila, Chiapas, continues to grow, and cross reports are alarming. On the one hand the ejido, declared autonomous, maintains that the march that they carried out on September…
Read MoreParamilitaries ambush march in Tila, Chiapas; at least two dead
By: Hermann Bellinghausen and Elio Henríquez Violence broke out this Friday in the Chol municipality of Tila, in the northern zone of Chiapas, with at least two dead (other sources talk about three) and an undetermined number of injured. The…
Read MoreVandalism and the return of Paz y Justicia in the Tila ejido, Chiapas
By: Hermann Bellinghausen The Tila ejido, in the northern zone of Chiapas, denounced acts that have altered the fragile stability of its urban core and mark the return of the Paz y Justicia [1] organization (that never really went away),…
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