Four families displaced in October 2023 from the community of Lacanjá Chansayab, municipality of Ocosingo, by organized crime groups, requested the intervention of federal and state authorities to facilitate their return or to compensate them. In a document, they stated that the four families were forcibly displaced because staying in the community meant “agreeing to […]

Remittances from the United States fell 40 percent in February in San Cristóbal de las Casas, the Mexican municipality that receives the most of these incomes, amid the uncertainty caused by the return of Donald Trump to the White House. “In this month of February we are seeing that it has been reduced and it […]

In November 2024, the Mexican government, through the IMSS-Bienestar program, hired 200 Cuban doctors to strengthen health services in areas with a shortage of medical personnel, particularly in Chiapas. Among them is general surgeon Juan Francisco Canino Martínez, who arrived at the Basic Community Hospital of Cintalapa, a municipality located an hour and a half […]

In recent days, a mural began to generate controversy among the inhabitants of the municipality of Chiapa de Corzo, although it was not made in the Magical Town. The artist Tesk Tesk created the work titled “Parachiques enamorades”, celebrating love and sexual diversity, which provoked criticism and triggered the decision to erase the painting at […]

On the morning of February 16, the governor of the state of Chiapas confirmed the capture of at least 20 people after a series of operations in the Lacandon Jungle region. According to available reports, among those arrested were the deputy director of the State Police and several indigenous inhabitants of the Lacanjá Chansayab community. […]

A total of 98 alleged members of the Tonalá police force, a municipality on the coast of Chiapas, were arrested for the crime of usurpation of public functions and whatever else, committed against society, reported the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE). It explained that those arrested could not prove their role as police officers, with […]

San Cristóbal de Las Casas is facing an accelerated urban transformation driven by gentrification in its historic center. This phenomenon has expelled low-income residents to the periphery and expanded the urban area by 581.33 hectares between 2010 and 2024, according to data from the Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (Sedatu). The pilot initiative […]

On February 8, the governor of Chiapas, Eduardo Ramírez Águila, visited the municipality of Palenque, one of the gateways for tourism to the Lacandon Jungle. After holding a meeting in which the importance of having security conditions for this activity to take place was raised, residents of the Lacanjá Chansayab community called an assembly that […]

The Amber and Regional Products Fair 2025 will take place from April 12 to 17 at Casa Mazariegos, located in the historic center of this city. This event will bring together 60 exhibitors from various Chiapas towns, who will exhibit and sell a wide variety of artisanal products during Holy Week.According to Hernán Torrez García, […]

State and federal security forces will be permanently installed in Pantelhó and municipalities of that Altos region, with surveillance tours in communities and highways to strengthen security and guarantee justice. Security authorities affirmed that Pantelhó is a municipality that has recovered its tranquility, after “years of disputes between criminals that had unleashed a climate of […]