Violence and Terror in Chiapas Facilitate Dispossession of Territories Say Activists

“The reality that the system imposes on us is one of war, of genocide. In Chiapas, war is reflected in three types of violence: that which has to do with the dispute over territory by organized crime; and counterinsurgency, carried out by armed political and social organizations linked to the Mexican State that dispute the territories of those who fight for life and defend autonomy.”

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Guns of Mexican cartels are from the United States: 74% come from Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas

A month ago, a report from the ATF confirmed that the firepower of the drug cartels is predominantly supplied by illicit trafficking from the U.S.

While this comes as no surprise, it has resurfaced this past week the context of the recent negociations in the Trump tarriff war on Mexico, when President Claudia Sheinbaum asked that the U.S. contain this illegal trafficking, in exchange for Mexico’s control of migration at the border.

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