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Postcards from the War. Part II
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The war in Mexico finds a fundamental point in Chiapas. There a struggle is already being waged in which the peoples are betting on life with peace, justice and dignity. Zapatismo is an outpost of that struggle, that is why we must all demand a stop to the war against the Zapatista peoples, which is at the same time the cry for a stop to the war in Chiapas and in all of Mexico.
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Organized Crime Shows Social Muscle among Poorest Classes Months before Elections
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'But one only had to look at the rough sandals and dusty feet, the faces wrinkled by the sun, the broken teeth of many of the peasants who came with their bamboo clubs to the capital of Guerrero. Poverty is far from extinct. And what's more, the leaders of the demonstration camouflaged their demands, which the government summed up in the release of two detained gangsters, with a list of social improvements in their communities: sewage drainage, asphalt streets, educational improvements and security on the roads. No one has any doubt that this is also necessary. But the absence of the State has been giving way to drug trafficking, little by little, election after election.''
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The War Against the Peoples of Chiapas
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González Méndez vs. Mexico.
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Hermann Bellinghausen, permanent envoy to Chiapas for La Jornada for over 20 years, testifies to the Inter-American Court on Human Rights about the responsibility of the State in the paramilitarization of Chiapas in those years which led to the forced disappearance of Antonio González Méndez, and so many others.
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The deceptive videos of human traffickers who promote themselves on social networks as travel agencies to enter the US.
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As a cartel war wages in Chiapas, largely for the control of migrant routes, the criminal organizations openly offer their services in human trafficking using social media platforms, presenting themselves as benevolent travel agencies. The trend has worsened since the end of Title 42 and is expected to increase as elections approach in the US.
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Mining in Mexico, an Activity of Speculation and Dispossession
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In the run-up to the signing of NAFTA, Mexico entered into an extractivist boom, repealing limiting legislation from the Constitution and opening its territory to foreign investment. This exponential increase in territory under concession, as revealed by a recent investigation, has brought only dispossession and environmental degradation, and as it has in Chiapas, an increase in organized crime.
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