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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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreShootings 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 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 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…
Read MoreUS: Hypocrisy and Cruelty
From the editorial desk of La Jornada Once again, the immigration issue exposes the hypocrisy, disdain for human rights, manipulation and cruelty of US leaders. Since Wednesday, the policy of granting conditional humanitarian freedom to Venezuelans entering the United States…
Read MoreGuacamaya Leaks: The Narco uses 6 routes to move drugs through Chiapas
By: Alfredo Fuentes | El Sol de Mexico Organized crime groups that traffic drugs from Central America to Mexico and the United States use at least six routes that cross through Chiapas by land and sea, indicate documents of Mexico’s…
Read MoreGuacamaya leaks: Sinaloa Cartel dominates in Chiapas
By: Omar Rivera | El Sol de México The Army recognizes that the Sinaloa Cartel is the one with a “presence in most of the state of Chiapas” and that maintains a territorial struggle against the Jalisco Cartel New Generation…
Read MoreCatholics march in 10 Chiapas cities demanding peace and justice
By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas – Thousands of Catholics of the Diocese of San Cristóbal participated in what was called a Pilgrimage for Peace and Justice in at least 10 cities to protest the violence…
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