Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Criminalization\ of Migration


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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¡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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Dehumanization of the immigrant and political war in the US

By: Miguel Tinker Salas* and Luis Duno Gottberg** Dehumanizing the other is a step prior to the violation of their human rights. The transformation of the immigrant experience into an abstract statistic, into a criminal act, into an excuse to…

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Is migrating a crime?

A La Jornada Editorial It is devastating that episodes have become increasingly frequent in which dozens of people lose their lives at some point in their journey to reach US territory, and that many of them meet a tragic end…

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