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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….
Read MoreDay 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreEl 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…
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,…
Read MoreCartels arrive in the Lacandon: “It’s the worst time in the Jungle,” residents point out
This may be the first journalistic report of drug cartels murdering jungle residents, taking over a community and causing forced displacements. By: Ángeles Mariscal They take possession of landing strips in the area Chiapas – In the Lacandón Jungle, located…
Read MoreCriminality 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 MoreCristóbal Sántiz is free, more than 2 years after his arrest
The community defender was arrested when leaving work in San Cristóbal de Las Casas by officials of the Chiapas Attorney General’s specialized police By: Yessica Morales El Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba)…
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