Organized Crime

Incessant Violence

Luis Hernandez Navarro again connects the dots of criminality creeping up from every crack in Chiapas. All of this, he points out, somehow beneath the noses of the Army and National Guard in the state.

La Santa Muerte in Chiapas

The cult of death is currently stalking Chiapas. This phenomenon is evident from the increase of violent crime in the state and the parallel devotion to the figure of La Santa Muerte.

Global Diaspora of Mexican Drug Trafficking

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.

The Chiapas Powder Keg

“Chiapas is a powder keg ready to explode…” Luis Hernandez Navarro provides us with a potent summary of the imminent crisis unfolding throughout Chiapas.

Torture, Forced Displacement, Arbitrary Arrests and Violations of Right to Land: The Cocktail of Violence that Beseiges Chiapas

In this article from El País, Alejandro Santos Cid analyses the latest report from the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Center for Human Rights and pulls together the threads that link the megaprojects of the Mexican government, human rights abuses, migration, militarization and the surge in organized crime in Chiapas. He does so in the context of the recent Sur Resiste caravan and the resistance of the Zapatista communities and the National Indigenous Congress to the death projects.

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