Violence and Terror Experienced by the Population of the Municipality of Frontera Comalapa
National human rights organizations call for a humanitarian corrido as unprecedented violence escalates in the region.
Cartels
Cease Fire Against Ostula
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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Criminal Groups Clash In Chiapas; Leaving 2 Dead and Vehicles Burned
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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Exodus of population fleeing cartels increases in Chiapas, urgent help needed
As the military intervenes in the cartel violence on the southern border of Chiapas, the prospects for protection of communities appears bleak. Thousands of families have left their homes and are urgently in need of emergency aid.
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Amidst the Cartel War in Chiapas, Rolando, Ejidal Commissioner, Disappeared for Defending His Town
Another portrait in Avispa Midia’s series, Chiapas: Disappearing on the Southern Border of Mexico.
A 45-year-old ejidal commissioner who called for a military presence to protect his town, was taken from a bus…