After 5 years, the creation of a Citizens’ Council to accompany the prosecutor’s office finally spurs action in the search for 1563 missing persons, a number which has multiplied in the state with the rise of organized crime.
“A Rarámuri made me see it in a simple conversation. He asked what was new about the narco, when it is the same as it has always been for five centuries. It is another activity in which the indigenous people are pressured and forced to work, but it is the same thing.”
Luis Hernández Navarro places today’s Chiapas in historical context from the perspective of the indigenous peoples.
Chiapas, Narcotrafficking, and NeoColonialism READ MORE »
Raúl Zibechi warns that the narco is a structural outgrowth of the capitalist system, from which political processes and State actors will grant no reprieve.
Narco Trafficking and the Armed Forces READ MORE »
The San Javier crossing, on the Palenque-Trinitaria highway, is a strategic point in the ancient Desierto de la Soledad (Desert of Solitude). It is the crossroads of the communities that make up the Lacandon community: Frontera Corozal, Lacanjá and Nueva Palestina, where Choles, Lacandones and Tseltales live. As part of their strategy to take over the territory, a command unit of the Jalisco Cartel – New Generation (CJNG) took control of the place and began to charge right of way. Every vehicle crossing must pay a fee. The police were stripped of their uniforms.
The Narco in the Lacandon READ MORE »
A summary of the UN report ‘Global Report on Cocaine, 2023. Local Dynamics, Global Challenges’. It highlights how the Jalisco and Sinaloa cartels are no longer just a Mexican phenomenon but a globalized problem with presence on the five continents.
Global Diaspora of Mexican Drug Trafficking READ MORE »
