Residents of the municipality of Ángel Albino Corzo, near the border between Chiapas and Guatemala, were forced by criminal groups to block roads and confront army troops. After more than 24 hours of threats, blockades with ditches and trucks driven across, as well as detention of soldiers, whose camp had its power cut off, the […]
Displaced people in Chiapas: “I never even imagined that I would seek to go to the United States”
The patio of a migrant shelter in this border city has become the home of Gloria Ramírez, a woman who, along with her daughter, left their life in the municipality of Mapastepec, Chiapas, as a result of the violence and extortion of which she claims they were victims. “I never even imagined that I would […]
“Be on our side”: Residents of a Chiapas community prevent the passage of soldiers from the National Guard and the Army
Residents of the El Regadillo community, in the municipality of Chicomuselo, in the Sierra Madre of Chiapas, prevented elements of the National Guard and the Army from patrolling the area, in protest against the claims they have made to officials to ask for security and to prevent people from continuing to abandon their homes, due […]
“Dispute between rival cartels is over the fee for the Mayan Train and Trans-Isthmus Corridor”: EZLN
Captain Marcos, leader of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), reappeared on the public scene weeks before the end of the six-year term of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. In recent days he has issued four statements to criticize megaprojects, displacements, violence by organized crime, disappearances and the political activities of the right and […]
Priest from Suchiate, Chiapas, criticizes AMLO in peace march: “He leaves a country the same or worse than the previous ones”
Heading a peace march in the municipality of Suchiate in Chiapas, where two criminal organizations are fighting over territory, the priest of the parish of San Andrés Apóstol, Heyman Vázquez Medina, declared that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “leaves a country equal to or worse than the previous governments” of the PRI and the PAN. […]
Nature tourism in Chiapas has decreased due to violence
A few days before the end of the summer holidays, the president of the Alliance of Businessmen of the Nature Segment in Chiapas, Pablo Albores, estimated that the fall in tourist influx in the sector was around 60%. Numbers that are very negative and that derive from the social situation that some regions have faced. […]
Indigenous women warn that current violence in Chiapas is similar to that of 1997
The situation of violence and insecurity in the state of Chiapas is very similar to that experienced in the days prior to the Acteal massacre, perpetrated on December 22, 1997, where 45 people died and 22 were seriously injured, warned indigenous Tzotzil women from the Civil Society Organization “Las Abejas de Acteal.” “Violence is more […]
Elections cancelled again in Pantelhó, Chiapas, due to violence
Source: ejecentral
Heavy rains cause flooding in San Cristobal; a man is almost swept away by the current
The heavy rains recorded this Saturday in San Cristóbal de Las Casas caused severe flooding in various parts of the city, creating dangerous situations for the inhabitants. In one of the most alarming incidents, a man was swept away by the strong current of water that accumulated on Insurgentes Avenue, one of the busiest streets […]
More than 1,000 former Zapatistas organize self-defense group against drug trafficking in Chiapas
More than 1,000 people who said they were former members of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) were deployed through a self-defense group in the municipality of Chenalhó, in the state of Chiapas, southeastern Mexico, to combat a group of paramilitaries that is ravaging the region. The criminal group calls itself Los Herrera, who, […]