Chiapas and Organized Crime
Chiapas is on the brink of war and hopefully, as Mercedes Sosa sang, we will not be indifferent.
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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.
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Autonomous Community in Chiapas Denounces Armed Attack by ORCAO
By: Elio HenríquezFeature photo: Red de Resistencia y Rebeldía AJMAQ San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas — The Network of Resistance and Rebellion Ajmaq denounced that members of the Regional Organization of Coffee Growers of Ocosingo (Orcao) once again began armed attacks against the support bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the autonomous community of Moisés and Gandhi. In a communiqué, the organization said that according to information from the Good Government Council (JBG) New Dawn in Resistance and Rebellion for Life and Humanity, the aggressions began on Wednesday at 8:30 pm. He added that at
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Amidst Soldiers and Cartels, Academia Examines the Rising Violence in the Southeast
As violence explodes around the state of Chiapas, researchers look at the intensive militarization of the southeast Mexicos under AMLO, and the extreme power bestowed on the Armed Forces and National Guard.
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