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“The new government’s campaign promises of security are very strong in the news and on social media, but not in our reality,” parishioners claim.
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Following years of denial by the AMLO administration of the reality of the situation of violence in Chiapas, there finally appears to be some admission by the state authorities that, “There was abandonment by the authorities in charge of security and justice. There was even denial of the problem, they always said that nothing was happening, that everything was fine. And today what we found, those graves, with the bodies, shows that the problem did exist and that the people are not wrong. The people said ‘we are insecure, we are afraid’. And they were not wrong.”
Despite this, nobody in Chiapas is holding their breath expecting that the situation will change for the better anytime soon.
“The first thing is to recognize that we are in a country with zones of extreme conflict, where civilians are particularly threatened, and recognize that it is not new, that we have been in this reality for at least 15 years, that there is no point in hiding it, on the contrary, let us face the context, understanding the Mexican particularity. We must understand the flows of arms and drugs in which Mexico is immersed because it has the largest drug and arms market in the northern world. Let us recognize that it is transnational, that not everything is attributable to the Mexican political reality.”
Analysis by Ángeles Mariscal of the event in CIDECI organized by the Zapatistas to mark the 31st anniversary of their armed uprising.
