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Shootings and roadblocks paralyze Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas
From the Editors Between Tuesday and Thursday, alleged members of organized crime groups sustained shootouts and maintained intermittent roadblocks at different points on the highway located between the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas, and the border with Guatemala due to…
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 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 MoreThey murder 3, set houses on fire and block streets in San Cristóbal
Bloody dispute between gangs of Motonetos By: Elio Henríquez, CorrespondentSan Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas Yesterday, the city experienced an escalation of violence for eight hours, which started with the murder of Gerónimo Ruiz López, leader of a group of…
Read MoreMotonetos frighten neighbors in San Cristóbal with shooting
By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas Subjects with high-caliber weapons fired shots into the air in the area of the José Castillo Tiélemans Market, the city’s main supply center, which caused panic and anxiety among hundreds…
Read MoreIndigenous people: Impunity and social decomposition
By: Magdalena Gómez On April 4, 2023, the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas issued a very strong communication directed at the three levels of government. Unfortunately, its central thesis coincides with what happens in other regions of the…
Read MoreThey integrate a new self-defense group in Chiapas; that warns they will not permit “any cartel to enter”
From the Editors A group of around 50 armed men, uniformed and masked, who call themselves the self-defense forces of San Cristóbal de las Casas municipality, published a video on social networks in which they make their existence public knowledge….
Read MoreThe sentence of the killer of human rights defender Simón Pedro is not justice
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, ChiapasFrayba Bulletin No. 09 *We recognize their work in defense of life, land, territory and the rights of peoples and communities.*May it be guaranteed that there is no impunity in murders of defenders. This Fray…
Read MoreThey disappear seven ejido authorities in the “death zone” of Chamic, Chiapas
The campesinos were last seen on March 22 when they left the Nueva Libertad ejido, municipality of Frontera Comalapa, in the direction of Palenque, but they never reached their destination. By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas. (apro) A group of…
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