Hundreds of women, adolescents and girls, along with organizations and activists, demonstrated this Saturday in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, to demand that the new Mexican government, headed by President Claudia Sheinbaum since October 1, end violence and inequality. “We marched to share our concerns as girls and adolescents, about school violence, violations of […]
El Salto waterfall: a hidden treasure in Chiapas
In the jungle of Chiapas, where nature reveals its splendor without reservation, there is a destination that promises to leave you breathless: the El Salto Waterfall, located within the Huextoc Natzin Tourist Center in the community of Reforma de Ocampo, in the municipality of Palenque. This fall of just over 20 meters is a hidden […]
Heavy rains cause landslide in Ocosingo
The rains that occurred during the last few hours caused a landslide on the stretch of highway from Ocosingo to San Cristóbal de Las Casas, where at least two vehicles were affected. After the report, work was carried out with machinery to remove the landslide that for a few hours caused the total closure of […]
Police commanders removed from office in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas; they participated in armed attack that left 3 dead
Following an armed attack by a group of criminals that left two criminals and a security agent dead, the mayor of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Fabiola Ricci Diestel, asked for the resignation of the directors of the Municipal Police, Rafael Eduardo Castro Reynaga and Municipal Traffic, Jorge Arturo Jiménez del Carmen, among others. Ricci […]
800 migrants make up a new caravan leaving from Tapachula, Chiapas
A caravan of some 800 migrants left Tapachula, Chiapas, this Saturday, seeking to advance to the north of Mexico after the procedures on the southern border take months and there are no jobs to support the wait. The group, which includes Peruvians, Ecuadorians, Hondurans, Venezuelans, Guatemalans, Haitians and other nationalities, left Bicentennial Park and headed […]
Police commanders removed from office in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas; they participated in armed attack that left 3 dead
Following an armed attack by a group of criminals that left two criminals and a security agent dead, the mayor of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Fabiola Ricci Diestel, asked for the resignation of the directors of the Municipal Police, Rafael Eduardo Castro Reynaga and Municipal Traffic, Jorge Arturo Jiménez del Carmen, among others. Ricci […]
The Prosecutor’s Office supports the Army’s version of the massacre of six migrants in Chiapas
After two days of silence, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) has closed ranks with the Army. The Public Ministry has supported, in a statement with hardly any new information released this Thursday, the version of the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena) on the massacre of six migrants committed by the military on Tuesday in southwest […]
Man shot in San Cristóbal was former candidate for Tenejapa
The man who was shot and wounded last night, Tuesday, in the north-west area of San Cristóbal de las Casas, when he was going home, was shot by two unknown subjects, minutes later he was transferred to a hospital in the city, it is Alejandro López Sántiz former candidate for the municipal presidency of the […]
Students from the Intercultural Bilingual Teachers’ College call for a march in San Cristóbal
More than 200 students from the Jacinto Canek Bilingual Intercultural Normal School, located in the municipality of Zinacantán, in the Altos region of Chiapas, will march on Wednesday, October 2nd starting at 12 noon. The purpose of this march is to remember the massacre of students in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, and to commemorate the anniversary […]
Gunmen burn down Chiapas city hall hours before mayor takes office
Armed men set fire to the Benemérito de las Américas mayor’s office in the Selva region, a few hours before Juan Gómez Morales, alias Juan Changarro, took office, which he is running for a second time, but this time for the Chiapas Unido party. Authorities reported that on Sunday night, armed men aboard several trucks […]