Urgent Action: Forced Displacement of More Than 3000 people in Aldama, Chiapas
We demand an immediate halt to the violence against the communities of Aldama by paramilitary forces!!
Fredy López Arévalo, Journalist, Murdered at his Home
On the night of Thursday, October 28th 2021, journalist Fredy López Arévalo was murdered at his home. His final tweet pointed to the dismissal of 200 employees at City Hall.
Chiapas and Organized Crime
Chiapas is on the brink of war and hopefully, as Mercedes Sosa sang, we will not be indifferent.
Narco Governments and Organized Crime Add to the Repression in Chiapas
Hermann Bellinghausen The hegemony of the PRI, assumed a given [in politics] for decades in Chiapas, was broken in one night on the New Year of 1994. The reality was much more porous, it turned out that the complexity of the indigenous peoples came from deep within, having great diversity and being marked by important historical tensions that, after the visibility gained in the political agenda, came to be of national interest. Great and terrible days followed in the next decade. Chiapas became a rehearsal for the future on two opposing fronts. The organized indigenous people in rebellion and resistance, …
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Social Decay and Rampant Violence Batter Chiapas
Hermann Bellinghausen prensents an analysis for the context of violence in which Chiapas finds itself today –the culimination of social decay dating to dating back to the Porfiriato.