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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“His administration was characterized by the excessive use of public force, repression of human rights defenders, arbitrary detentions and torture, events that remain unpunished. It is also added that he did not take the necessary measures to prevent violence against women, resulting in an increase in femicides, despite the Gender Violence Alert in Chiapas.”
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`“The violence to which young people, boys, girls, women and men of all ages are exposed as they pass through Mexico, including kidnappings, extortion or sexual violence, forces them to travel in caravans as a protection mechanism,” denounced Ricardo Santiago, MSF project coordinator in southern Mexico. Santiago asserted that “the caravans are becoming more and more multitudinous,” because if in September they numbered in the hundreds, now the count is in the thousands.`
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