As the government of Eduardo Ramírez Águilar has taken power in Chiapas, a notable re-shuffling of officials from the former administration show signs of a “narco truce” being drawn up with and within the State apparatus.
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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.
National human rights organizations call for a humanitarian corrido as unprecedented violence escalates in the region.
In Ostula, the Nahua defend their ancestral territory and autonomy against a marriage of extractivism, organized crime, and State impunity, a pattern of violence against indigenous peoples that recurs from Sonora to Michoacan, and on to Chiapas.
Raúl Romero shares some history.
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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.
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