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.
Frayba statement on the occasion of its 35th anniversary.
The Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Center for Human Rights celebrates its 35th anniversary this week. As Schools for Chiapas, we are proud to have been able to accompany the center in training BriCO volunteers.
Femicidal violence continues to be a major problem in Chiapas with most of the crimes remaining in impunity. Three femicides have already been registered in the state this year.
Since approximately 2021, the border of Chiapas with Guatemala has been plagued by an unacknowledged armed conflict based on the territorial dispute between organized crime structures for the control of goods, services, people, legal and illegal products, as well as the very lives of the local population. As the violence escalates, authorities and military personnel are, at best negligent, and in some cases, colluding with the crime groups in conflict.
