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Leaders from Pantelhó’s 86 communities warn they will rise up in arms
By: Chiapas Paralelo Representatives of the 86 rural communities and the 18 neighborhoods in the town of Pantelhó, asked Chiapas Governor Rutilio Escandón Candenas, and the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), to dismantle the Los Herrera armed group, because if…
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 MoreFrayba demands the release of an EZLN support base, a prisoner in Catazaja
By: Elio Henríquez, correspondentSan Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba), demanded the liberation of José Díaz Gómez, an indigenous support base of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de…
Read MoreSome thoughts on the killings in Polhó
For many of us who care about and support the Zapatista struggle, the killings in Polhó were both a shock and a realization of how much things have changed in that corner of Chiapas. Reports on the killings left us…
Read MoreGroup accused of links to crime attempted to expel El Machete
Group accused of links to crime attempts to recuperate Pantelhó, Chiapas For 6 days they have tried to ambush members of the El Machete self-defense forces. The municipal seat is partially abandoned. By: Ángeles Mariscal They say that they entered…
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 MoreIncessant violence
By: Luis Hernández Navarro On June 1, narco-banners were hung on four pedestrian bridges in the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas. Ten days later, notices reappeared on public roads, indicating that the Army took journalists to report on risk areas….
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 MoreChiapas: “Necro-power” and paramilitarism
By: Carlos Fazio The Fourth Transformation’s “humanism” did not reach the Mexican southeast. Chiapas is a powder keg about to explode. And not because of the absence of the State: given that it is a territory of great geopolitical and…
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