Bishop Raúl Vera expressed that “the work carried out from the Brico project is an inherent part of the action of defense and integral promotion of human rights and of the native peoples…Today more than ever your solidarity sustains us.”
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In election year, US politicians seem oblivious to the misery and suffering that causes people to migrate and the knock-on effects that this has in Mexico, preferring instead to use the migration catastrophe as a ball in their electoral game to win votes. ‘’Obviously the debate is not about how to solve the problem, but how to use it in the electoral theater. The immigrants and their experiences are only secondary parts of the cast in this play.’’
Almost 22,000 people went missing in Mexico last year, an average of 60 people per day. The search for missing loved ones can also result in disappearance or death. 22 searchers have been murdered since 2010.
Intrigue and betrayal in the Ayotzinapa case.
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.
