As communities throughout Mexico experience a marked rise in violence by organized crime, Carlos Gonzalez predicts that there can only be three outcomes — two of them not favorable.
The situation in southeastern Mexico is alarming. So much so that on October 7, 2025, the collective Madres en Resistencia de Chiapas denounced the lack of real action by the Chiapas government. “Enough with the pretense, enough with institutional cynicism.”
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The author gathered with compañerxs in San Cristóbal to discuss the new fronts in the storm and the ways that we must face them.
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On May 21st, 2026, 9 members of the Moreno Hernández family were indicted on charges of aggravated dispossession, a decision that continues the trend of criminalization against indigenous land defenders in Chiapas.
“It is to be hoped that the most important aspects of this World Cup will take place outside the stadiums—in the streets and fields, on the coasts and in the mountains—where it is not the spectacle that will be celebrated, but rather memory and struggle, resistance and defiance.”
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