After months of insecurity on Chiapas’ roads and tourist centers during 2024, hundreds of tourists began arriving at the state’s beaches during this Easter holiday period. For months, the roads were unsafe, mainly due to constant clashes between rival organized crime groups at various points along the highways. Criminals even assaulted and robbed tourists, taking […]

A harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) was recently sighted and documented in the Lacandon Jungle of Chiapas, after being considered extinct in Mexico, according to the organization Dimensión Natural. This species is listed as endangered in the Mexican Official Standard NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010. The discovery was announced a few days ago during the Chiapas Birding Festival 2025, the […]

Thousands of workers in Chiapas face grueling hours, low wages, and exposure to toxic agrochemicals to produce coffee, cocoa, and sugar that are exported to multinationals and markets in the United States, Belgium, Germany, Colombia, Japan, and Singapore, according to the report “A Bitter Reality: Labor Abuses of Migrant Workers in Sugar, Cocoa, and Coffee […]

Venezuelan migrants stranded on Mexico’s southern border following U.S. President Donald Trump’s restrictions protested to demand humanitarian flights to return them to their country. The South Americans demonstrated outside the Siglo 21 station of the National Institute of Migration (INM), where protesters like Wilmarí Villa asked Mexican and Venezuelan authorities for help returning home, having […]

Hundreds of migrants deported by the new US administration arrive each week on commercial flights to Chiapas, prompting the state government to create a plan for their job placement and for them to start their own businesses. Faced with the increase in foreign migrants finding informal jobs due to being stranded in southern Mexico, Pablo […]

Among the main problems facing Chiapas, it is noted that the next social struggle will be the lack of water for the countryside. Production organizations such as CIOAC, CNPA, and CNC, among others, are uniting to face the challenge and ensure access to this vital liquid in order to make their lands productive. Undoubtedly, the […]

During the month of January of this year, 398,849 visitors visited Chiapas, generating an economic impact of 880,298,565 pesos, with hotel occupancy at 38 percent and an average stay of 1.24 days. The main tourist destinations were Tuxtla Gutiérrez, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Tapachula, Palenque, Chiapa de Corzo, Tonalá, and Comitán de Domínguez. The […]

The Secretariat of People’s Security stated that with the arrest of Ataulfo ​​López Flores, alias “El Mango,” it dismantled the “Chiapas Guatemala Cartel” criminal group, which had plagued the Frailesca, Sierra, central, and border regions of Chiapas with murders, disappearances, extortion, and extortion charges, and was fighting for territory with other organized crime gangs. Óscar […]

This Saturday, the first phase of the Lu’um Ha water park opened, a new family recreation area that promises to become one of the main tourist attractions in Soconusco and Chiapas. The state governor, Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar, accompanied by the mayor of Tapachula, Yamil Melgar Bravo, and private sector investors, cut the ribbon. This space […]