The territory on the border between Mexico and Guatemala has been used for decades by groups that traffic illegal merchandise and smuggle people; but the difference with the current situation, he says, is the acts of violence against the population that does not agree (with these activities); the use of arms, the control of roads and means of communication.
Many families living in the Lacandon just in the last decades fled the violence of large plantation owners to make a life for themselves in the jungle. Now they face a new threat to their well being – the dominance of the cartels in the region.
In a complicated national and international scenario, the originary peoples organized in the CNI continue weaving, building horizons, insisting on the global and anti-capitalist character of the struggle. Accustomed to resisting, the people walk knowing that the path is made by walking.
Avispa Midia interviews Mayan land defenders of the CNI of their experience with the mis-named megaproject, the Mayan Train.
This second article from SIPAZ about migration in Chiapas looks at the facts and figures of migrants in transit in the state and in Mexico.
