Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Disappearance


Chiapas, case study of a criminal-state complex

By Lucie Cabins (For the Chiapas Support Committee: May, 2025) “Impunity is not the result of a weak or deficient state, but rather it is actively provided to the gamut of armed groups who commit crimes and acts of terror…

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The normalistas denounce: The AMLO presidency is about to conclude leaving the  Ayotzinapa case “in the air”

By Desinformémonos Students from Ayotzinapa Normal denounced the six-year Presidencial term limit of Andrés Manuel López Obrador “is about to conclude leaving in the air” the disappearance of the 43 classmates who on the 26th of September will mark 10…

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Ayotzinapa 43: Parent group searches for their disappeared in the Mexican army’s 27th Infantry Battalion barracks

By Sergio Ocampo Arista, correspondent, La Jornada Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. The former spokesperson for the Ayotzinapa parents, Felipe de la Cruz, reported that Arturo Medina Padilla, assistant secretary for Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior…

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It’s not War, It’s Genocide!

By Rocio Moreno* | Desinformémonos The inhabitants of Abya Yala know what genocide is. 500 years ago, with the European invasion in our territories, we not only suffered displacement from our lands, languages and ways of thinking, but also violence…

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Autonomous region members report a new ORCAO armed attack against BAEZLN in Ocosingo

By Desinformemonos | February 12, 2024 Mexico City | Desinformémonos. Residents of the autonomous region of Moisés & Gandhi, Chiapas, reported a new armed attack against the Support Bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (BAEZLN) by the Regional…

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Chiapas: Armed group displaces Zapatista community La Resistencia

by Elio Henriquez, La Jornada correspondent | February 3, 2024 San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. The National Network of Civil Human Rights Organizations “All Rights for All” (Red TDT, Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos Todos los…

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EZLN: Fourteenth Part & Second Approach Alert: The (other) Rule of the Excluded Third Party.

Fourteenth Part and Second Approach Alert: The (other) Rule of the Excluded Third Party. November 2023. The meeting was a year ago. One early morning in November. It was cold. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés arrived at the chambers of the Captaincy…

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CNI calls for global action against the war on indigenous peoples

Mexico City | Desinformémonos. The Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI, National Indigenous Congress) – Consejo Indígena de Gobierno (CIG, Indigenous Council of Government) (CNI-CIG) have called for a global action to stop the war against the people of Mexico and the…

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¡Stop the war against the people of Mexico and the world!

By Gilberto López y Rivas, La Jornada The National Indigenous Congress (CNI, Congreso Nacional Indígena) and its Indigenous Council of Government (CIG, Consejo Indígena de Gobierno) made public a call to commemorate, this October 12, the 531 years of the…

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Neoliberal integration and defense of territory

By: Raúl Romero* When in 2001 the Mexican political class denied the possibility of a profound reform of the Mexican State, which through recognition of the San Andrés Sakamch’en de los Pobres Accords opened the door to a new relationship between…

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