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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…
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 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…
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 MoreA Municipal agent, his daughter and son disappear, 300 meters from a military post in Chiapas
By: Isaín Mandujano In the ejido Sinaloa, municipality of Frontera Comalapa, fear is lived, terror is breathed. irst it was the Ejidal Commissioner, Rolando Rodríguez Molares kidnapped and disappeared in September 2022; seven months later they came for the municipal…
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