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Accuse Tila mayor of reactivating paramilitaries
THEY ACCUSE THE MAYOR OF TILA OF REACTIVATING THE PAZ Y JUSTICIA PARAMILITARY GROUP From the Correspondents Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas Tila ejido owners, adherents of the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandón Jungle accused municipal president Edgar Leopoldo Gómez Gutiérrez of reactivating…
Read MoreAccuse private police of murdering migrants
ACTIVISTS ACCUSE POLICE OF MURDERING MIGRANTS THAT TRAVEL TO THE U.S. ** They maintain that those responsible belong to the Cusaem and Sepromex corporations ** The first one has million dollar contracts with federal government agencies and with the state…
Read MorePope Francisco to visit Chiapas
THEY FORMALLY ANNOUNCE POPE FRANCISCO’S VISIT TO CHIAPAS By: Isaín Mandujano This afternoon, the Archdiocese of Tuxtla Gutiérrez confirmed the visit of Pope Francisco to Chiapas, where he will live and will send a message to indigenous peoples and migrants…
Read MoreConfrontation in Chiapas leaves one dead
AUTHORITIES and TEACHERS ACCUSE EACH OTHER of PROVOKING TEACHER’S DEATH By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas One teacher dead, six detained and five injured (three of them police) is the result of a confrontation that occurred…
Read MoreLópez y Rivas: Video for Level 2 of the Escuelitas
The SECOND LEVEL of the ZAPATISTA ESCUELITAS By: Gilberto López y Rivas / III Students of the Zapatista Escuelita (Little School) that hope to pass the second level had access to a video more than three hours long, a significant…
Read MoreEjido Morelia: the Army’s impunity
By: Miguel Angel de los Santos* In January 1994 an internal armed conflict began in Chiapas, when the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, its initials in Spanish) declared war against the Mexican National Army and took various municipal capitals. Armed…
Read MoreMexico now deports more Central Americans than the U.S.
THE SOUTHERN BORDER PROGRAM INCREASES DEPORTATIONS and RISKS FOR MIGRANTS In seven months, 92,889 undocumented detained; The U.S. Migra arrested 70,448 By: Arturo Cano, Envoy Tenosique, Tabasco To be a migrant one must have good legs and poor hearing. That’s…
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