Spiraling cartel violence in Chiapas since the pandemic has forced thousands of people to abandon their homes and lands. “These cartels kidnap, murder, and threaten. In recent weeks the war has been very intense, this has caused us to move from our communities.”
Forced Displacement Rising in Chiapas Leaving Ghost Towns READ MORE »
The Caravan El Sur Resiste on its fifth day of travel arrived in Colonia El Bosque, Tabasco, a community located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Grijalva River. El Bosque is one of many communities around the world at risk of disappearing underwater due to rising sea levels caused by climate change. In Mexico, it is one of the first communities identified as displaced by this phenomenon.
Many families living in the Lacandon just in the last decades fled the violence of large plantation owners to make a life for themselves in the jungle. Now they face a new threat to their well being – the dominance of the cartels in the region.
Cartels Arrive in the Lacandón: “It is the Worst Time in the jungle” Residents Sayy. READ MORE »
New attacks on Support Bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation Six families from the town of “El Esfuerzo”, Comandanta Ramona Autonomous Municipality. The Federal and State Governments of Chiapas are oblivious in the face of permanent violence and dispossession against autonomous territories. San Cristóbal de las Casas Ejidatarios of Muculum Bachajón directed by the president of the ejidal commission, and along with municipal police and Civil Protection agents, burned houses and displaced 6 Zapatista National Liberation Army (BAEZLN) support base families in the community of El Esfuerzo, belonging to the autonomous municipality of Comandanta Ramona, denounced the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas
