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Chiapas: Paramilitarism in counterinsurgency
BY: Gilberto López y Rivas In the context of the multiple forms of neoliberal violence that prevail at the global and national levels, in the forum: “From the horror of war to the resistance for life,” summoned by the emergency…
Read MoreViolence in Chiapas opens the way for looting resources, the Bishop says
By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas Scenarios of violence such as those prevailing in some regions of Chiapas favor the entry of transnational companies for the imposition of megaprojects and the dispossession of natural resources of…
Read MorePostcards from the war. Part II
By: Raúl Romero* Tuesday, July 5, 2023, in Nayarit, La Jornada correspondent Luis Martín Iñiguez Sánchez is disappeared. A few days later they will find his lifeless body. Monday, July 10, 2023, in Guerrero, more than 5 thousand people, identified…
Read MorePostcards from the War
By: Raúl Romero Wednesday, June 28, a car bomb explodes in Guanajuato; in Tapachula, Chiapas, a grenade is thrown at a Secretary of Public Security base. Thursday, June 29, former vigilante leader Hipólito Mora is assassinated in Michoacán. Friday, June…
Read MoreThe Battle of Frontera Comalapa
By: Luis Hernández Navarro The ambush in which José Fernando Ruiz Montejo, El Poni, and three of his bodyguards fell, in the Joaquín Miguel Gutiérrez ejido, Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas, at the border of Guatemala and Mexico, on December 28, 2020, was…
Read MoreCatholics of Frontera Comalapa ask for peace and maintaining vigilance
They demand that the government ally with citizens, and not with organized crime! By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas Around 4,000 Catholics from the municipality of Frontera Comalapa made a pilgrimage yesterday [July 2, 2023] to…
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 MoreFrontera Comalapa: Partial return of those displaced by drug cartels
By: Ángeles Mariscal “Andrés Manuel López Obrador said ‘hugs not bullets’, but we are not receiving the hugs, we are receiving pure bullets,” point out residents of the border zone of Chiapas with Guatemala. Terror is experienced in the town…
Read MoreUNHCR, 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…
Read MoreArmed forces retake control of Frontera Comalapa
From the Editors Yesterday, federal and State security forces, with the support of airplanes, retook control of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas, where several communities were the scene of confrontations between two organized crime groups last week, which caused the displacement of…
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