In San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas Highlands, where Pérez Pérez was originally from, a chapel built on the site where he was buried was inaugurated and blessed four months after his murder.
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Despite stricter controls from both the US and Mexican authorities, there has been no let up in the numbers of migrants arriving in Chiapas, escaping poverty, violence and the effects of climate change in their homelands. The situation is expected to get even worse in the coming years.
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The construction of the San Cristóbal de las Casas-Palenque highway has been suspended in the past three six-year presidential terms of office due to opposition from various indigenous communities that would be affected, but the current governor, Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar, has it listed as one of his priority projects.
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”How is it possible for a political force to launch a deep offensive, just when the greatest advance of the system is being recorded? At first glance, it seems like a contradiction. However, it is about ethical and political coherence. Just as women who fight do not leave their liberation for a tomorrow that may or may not come, the Zapatistas do not wait for the Revolution to overcome capitalism, proposing the commons as a way out of this difficult situation.”
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“The new government’s campaign promises of security are very strong in the news and on social media, but not in our reality,” parishioners claim.
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