Narco Trafficking and the Armed Forces
Raúl Zibechi warns that the narco is a structural outgrowth of the capitalist system, from which political processes and State actors will grant no reprieve.
Raúl Zibechi warns that the narco is a structural outgrowth of the capitalist system, from which political processes and State actors will grant no reprieve.
A group of students from the Faculty of Law-UNACH paint a bleak picture for the prospects of fair and democratic elections in Chiapas this year due the the omnipresence of organized crime.
Early Monday morning, on the 25th, a confrontation between rival drug trafficking groups left at least two dead, one wounded, five burned vehicles and passenger buses with bullet impacts on the highways that connect Tuxtla Gutiérrez with Arriaga and Las Choapas, which were closed for six hours.
As the presence of organized crime is increasingly being felt in Chiapas, people are organizing themselves to protect their lives, their territories and Mother Earth. Hopefully, we are beginning to see the first fruits of recent proposals from the Zapatistas.
Young Liria nodded excitedly with a smile that lit up her face like the Mayan sun. Her small frame rocked back and forth with emotion. She had been at the 30th anniversary celebration of the EZLN in the Caracol of Dolores Hidalgo, and still vibrated with the energy of it. Along with thousands of her peers, she witnessed as people from around the globe streamed into the remote canyons of Chiapas to celebrate, and to listen to the Zapatista youth as they enacted their stories before an international audience. She witnessed for the first time the global reach of their movement that her grandparents and parents had built, and that she, should she choose to, would be charged with carrying on.Â