‘’The unprecedented situations have impacted Mexico, since it is considered among the five nations with the highest number of asylum requests, and in 2023 alone 273 thousand new requests for international asylum were received. ”
As part of our outreach program and in collaboration with Sendas, Schools for Chiapas coordinates talks twice a week here in san Cristóbal The talks cover a wide range of topics and encourage active participation from the attendees. Here is a account from one of the participants, Isalia from the US.
Given the official denialism regarding violence in Chiapas by the three levels of government, Diego Enrique Osorno in conversation with Carlos Ogaz (Frayba) touches on some ways out of the current quagmire.
Muralist and long-time collaborator with our organization painting murals in the Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Gustavo Chávez Pavón (Guchepe) talks about a recently unveiled work at Tlatelolco University in Mexico City, an exaltation of social struggles in Mexico and globally.
Five tseltal defenders from San Juan Cancuc are sentenced to 25 years without any evidence of their crime, representative of the rash of what Frayba refers to as the “factory of guilty parties” in Chiapas.
