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Violence against activists who oppose the Interoceanic Corridor increases
By Renata Bessi Original in Spanish published by Avispa Midia, August 16, 2023 Panel of community speakers at the Puente Madera Oaxaca Foro Político Cultura de Rebeldías y Resistencias held during the El Sur Resiste Caravan (April 2023). On August…
Read MoreChiapas and the Zapatistas face a dramatic increase in violence, Update on Counterinsurgency
By: Mary Ann Tenuto SánchezJuly 28, 2023 At the end of August 2022 and early in October 2022, the Chiapas Support Committee published a two-part report on the dramatic increase in violence in the Mexican state of Chiapas, home to…
Read MoreTestimony before the Inter-American Court: The War Against the Zapatista Peoples
By: Hermann Bellinghausen AFFIDAVIT BEFORE THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (REF.: CDH-5-2022/027). TESTIMONY FOR GONZÁLEZ MÉNDEZ V. MEXICO May 2023 I base this testimony on my daily experience as a reporter, permanent envoy of the national newspaper La Jornada…
Read MoreSome 4,000 march to demand security in Frontera Comalapa
Residents are caught in the middle of a fight between two cartels By: Elio Henríquez, CorrespondentSan Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas Around 4,000 inhabitants of Frontera Comalapa marched on Monday, June 26, in the municipal seat to demand peace and…
Read MoreInter-American Court for Human Rights and forced displacement
By: Magdalena Gómez Within the very broad cases and situations of human rights violations in our country, a campaign is underway that seeks to stop the war in Chiapas against the Zapatista communities, without this war only affecting them, but…
Read MoreAntonio González Méndez v. Mexico, the first case before the Inter-American Court on Chiapas counterinsurgency actions
By: Yessica Morales, Editor On June 21, 2023, the hearing will be held before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACourtHR) on the case of “Antonio González Méndez vs. México.” Antonio was disappeared in 1999 for belonging to the civilian…
Read MoreA Municipal agent, his daughter and son disappear, 300 meters from a military post in Chiapas
By: Isaín Mandujano In the ejido Sinaloa, municipality of Frontera Comalapa, fear is lived, terror is breathed. irst it was the Ejidal Commissioner, Rolando Rodríguez Molares kidnapped and disappeared in September 2022; seven months later they came for the municipal…
Read MoreFrontera Comalapa: A new armed group rises against the CJNJ and an Update
According to a video translated by Borderland Beat, “a new armed group has emerged in a video in the Chiapas municipality of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas. Within this broadcast they claim to defend indigenous citizens from extortion by an opposing cartel….
Read MoreAyotzinapa, the difficult road to truth
Luis Hernández Navarro Ayotzinapa is an open wound. Eight and a half years have passed since the atrocity and the wound still has not healed. How can it close if the truth doesn’t come? If there is no justice? If…
Read MoreCriminal groups displace residents from the Lacandón Jungle
By: Ángeles Mariscal [1] On December 16, 2021, the Velasco family was expelled from Nueva Palestina community, the largest community in the Lacandón Jungle [2], Months before, the family’s father, Versaín Velasco García, had denounced the impact that groups linked to trafficking drugs,…
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