Organized crime forces young people aged 15 and older who live in the southern border regions between Chiapas and Guatemala to join its ranks in exchange for keeping them and their families alive, according to Victor Hugo Lopez, executive secretary of the Red Todos los Derechos para Todas y Todos (TDT) (All Rights for All) […]

Groups, collectives and representatives launched an urgent call to the Mexican government to intervene in the face of the “imminent risk” to the life and safety of “thousands of families” in the Sierra and Border of Chiapas due to territorial disputes and confrontations between criminal groups. The more than 80 groups and collectives defending the […]

Guatemalan authorities are mobilizing to care for and provide temporary shelter to the nearly 600 Mexicans who are fleeing the violence that is invading their towns in Chiapas and seeking refuge in the neighboring country. In recent hours, forced recruitment by cartels fighting over that territory has forced dozens of families to cross the southern […]

From July 28 to August 4, the exhibition and sale of artisanal sweets and traditional Coleto bread, called “La Feria del Dulce 2024”, will be held in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, as reported by Lino David Ballinas Mijangos, organizer of the event. He indicated that the exhibition and sale will be installed in the […]

The city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, which will celebrate its 500th anniversary in 2028, will celebrate San Cristóbal Mártir, its patron saint, with great color and religious fervor on July 25. The activities will take place in its temple located on the San Cristobalito hill, located in the western part of the city. […]

The Farrera Half Marathon in Chiapas 2024 was presented with great expectation in San Cristóbal de Las Casas. The great “runner” community of this Magical Town has already marked on its agenda Sunday, September 15, when at 6 a.m. sharp the official start will be given for the athletic event that will take place in […]

Javier Farrera, a graduate in Visual Arts from Unicach, announced that the exhibition Reminiscencias invisible was inaugurated, which is the product of a workshop he taught at the Casa de la Cultura in San Cristóbal, with part of the thesis work he does, on the subject of reconstructing memories. In an interview, he explained that […]

Organized crime gangs fighting over the Mexico-Guatemala border have been involved in clashes since July 14 in at least 14 municipalities in the Sierra and Border regions of Chiapas, putting the population “at imminent risk” and forcibly recruiting civilians, human rights organizations on the southern border warned. “Civilians are being forcibly recruited, at least, from […]

The Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) has issued an alert indicating that some beaches in Huatulco and Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, are not suitable for recreational use due to high levels of contamination. In a recent study that analyzed the presence of enterococci in the water, Cofepris identified that the beaches “La […]

Animal abuse continues to be a serious problem in Chiapas, where cases of animal cruelty continue to increase. In various localities of the state, such as San Cristóbal de las Casas and Tuxtla Gutiérrez, the poisoning of dogs through the supply of water contaminated with toxic substances has been reported. In this regard, Celeste Coello […]