Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Mexico’s Southern Border


CNI calls for global action against the war on indigenous peoples

Mexico City | Desinformémonos. The Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI, National Indigenous Congress) – Consejo Indígena de Gobierno (CIG, Indigenous Council of Government) (CNI-CIG) have called for a global action to stop the war against the people of Mexico and the…

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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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The 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…

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Catholics 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…

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Some 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…

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It wasn’t the fire: Bi-national day of action in solidarity with migrants

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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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Armed 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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The CJNG and El Maíz control Frontera Comalapa with torture and murders

From the Editors Together with the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), the criminal grouping El Maíz has been able to control residents of the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, where there are some 3,000 displaced by the violence. Those who refuse…

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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…

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