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The Maya Community Embroidering Resistance
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The Maya Train has placed the municipality of Felipe Carrillo Puerto on a path of accelerated development that, so far, has only brought them insecurity. Determined to defend their culture, at the Maya School of the U Kúuchil K Ch’i’ibalo’on community center, children are weaving their own history as a way to protect their identity and their territory.
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Ayotzinapa: The 43 Disappeared, Mexico’s Open Wound
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In Mexico today, the number of missing persons is alarming and continues to rise. According to the National Search Commission, as of March 17th, 2025, more than 124,000 people are registered as “missing” and “unaccounted for.” One of the most famous cases, even internationally, was that of the 43 missing students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers' College of Ayotzinapa, in the state of Guerrero. It is a deep wound still open in Mexican history, due to the involvement of the government and the armed forces in the disappearance of the young men, who were barely twenty years old.
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Aggressions Against Defenders and Journalists Increase in Militarized Chiapas
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While Chiapas Governor Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar boasts that it is the “second safest state in the country,” attacks against defenders, journalists, and activists have increased by 29% so far in 2025, according to a report by the Observatory of Human Rights Defenders in Chiapas (El Obse).
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CIPOG-EZ Communities Thank EZLN and CNI for Solidarity on 'Los Ardillos' Attack
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Following recent attacks by organized crime and a defamation campaign against Carlos González García, the CIPOG-EZ expresses it's gratitude to the EZLN and CNI for their solidarity.
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UNO Highlights Links of Companies with Disappearance of Defenders; Reviews Case of Mexico
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Mexican lawyer Ana Lorena Delgadillo, a member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, points out that the case of the Aquila defenders exemplifies possible links between the company, the State, and organized crime. For the first time, a recent report raises the question of how economic power plays a role in the disappearance of land defenders and must assume responsibility.
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Deputy Singles Out and Criminalizes Carlos González, CNI Lawyer and Defender
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In a streamed working group meeting of the Mexico City Congress, a congresswoman defamed and threatened CNI defender and lawyer, Carlos Gónzalez García.
A history of the struggles of the peoples of the municipality and analysis of the implications of the congresswoman's threats provide useful context.
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Schools for Chiapas is an international solidarity organization supporting autonomy in communities in resistance in Chiapas, Mexico. Our work depends on support from people of conscience everywhere.
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