On July 20, protected by state police, a group of 108 Tsotsil people were displaced and settled in the House of Culture in the municipal seat of Chenalhó, where they joined other previously displaced people.
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20% of the indigenous population is illiterate, equivalent to 1.3 million people. The government is launching yet another program to tackle the conditions of poverty and marginalization behind the educational gap.
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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In the framework of the Jubilee Year of Samuel Ruiz, thousands of Catholic pilgrims demanded security, an end to impunity and justice for Padre Marcelo.
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“The information presented here is just the tip of the iceberg of attacks on human rights defenders. It is only a part of the violence that is visible, but beneath this iceberg lies a network of power relations and domination, cultural and structural violence, racism and discrimination, poverty and exclusion, in short, a complex map of violence that plagues the country.“
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