Avispa Midia interviews Mayan land defenders of the CNI of their experience with the mis-named megaproject, the Mayan Train.
“The Land is Not For Sale”: Defenders in the Face of the Mis-named Mayan Train READ MORE »
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.
Migration in Chiapas ll READ MORE »
They are multiple and simultaneous. They are environmental, military, political, paramilitary, economic and femicidal storms. It’s drug trafficking as an instrument of the states and the powerful. It’s a policy of accumulation of capital and of power, predatory of everything it finds in its way. Violence has been converted into the principal rationale of the ruling classes.
The Storms from Above READ MORE »
Eight months after an armed group staged an attack in the northern market of San Cristóbal de las casas, researchers examine the context of violence and criminality across the Altos region of Chiapas to assess its causes, as well as prospects for change.
Criminality and Violence in the Highlands of Chiapas READ MORE »
Not only is Mexico one of the most dangerous countries in the world for human rights defenders, but they are also subject to surveillance and spying on by the military using Pegasus spyware produced by Israel. A federal commission is being launched to investigate this.
Mexico to investigate alleged human rights abuses by military after spying claims READ MORE »
