Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Displacement


UNHCR, OHCHR and OIM ask for urgent measures to protect the 3,000 displaced in Frontera Comalapa

By: Editor Yessica Morales *In that border region, the population in human mobility was in the middle of the cartel war and what they seek is to survive. Last May 25, the Jalisco Nueva Generación and Sinaloa cartels confronted each…

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The Attack in Polhó, Acteal’s legacy: former member of Las Abejas

Chiapas, at “war” due to the abandonment and complicity of authorities By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent,San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas “We are in a war scenario as a consequence of the abandonment and complicity of the governments, because of which…

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Armed attack on Santa Martha displaced in Polhó, Chiapas; 7 dead and 3 injured

By: Elio Henríquez, CorrespondentSan Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas [Excerpt from the first La Jornada article dated June 3.] Seven indigenous people died and three were injured during an armed attack committed yesterday evening in the locality of Polhó, municipality…

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National and international statement in response to the aggression against the Moisés Gandhi community: Stop the paramilitary violence against the Zapatistas

National and international statement in response to the aggression against the Moses Gandhi community [Puedes leer la versión original en español AQUI.l June 2023 To the peoples of Mexico and the world, To the individuals, collectivities and peoples who defend…

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A 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…

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Frontera 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….

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Day 5 of the Caravan: El Bosque community devoured by Global Warming

Text: Observatorio Memoria y Libertad Photos: Karen Castillo – Observatorio Memoria y Libertad The Caravan El Sur Resiste on its fifth day of travel arrived in Colonia El Bosque, Tabasco, a community located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Grijalva…

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The narco’s shadow extends throughout the Lacandón Jungle

By: Ángeles Mariscal Crime has been incrusted in the recesses of the Chiapas jungle and advances non-stop throughout the State, under the cover of omissions, bureaucracy and lack of political will of governments. “They left us alone to face this…

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El sur resiste | The south resists: Gathering on the Zapatista & Indigenous struggles against mega-projects

El sur resiste | The south resists Updates on the Zapatista movement & land justice struggles in México: On the CNI campaign to stop the “Maya Train” & Inter-Oceanic Corridor An Evening of Solidarity, Poetry & Zapatismo At Medicine for…

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Criminal 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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