In the first of a series of articles, Anabel Hernández takes an in-depth look at the ongoing narco war in Chiapas and some of its main players. It reads like a script for a nightmarish Netflix series but unfortunately, and often lethally, it is all to real for the inhabitants of the state.
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Inhabitants and municipal authorities of Frontera Corozal, municipality of Ocosingo, requested the permanent and definitive presence of the National Guard in the region, in order to combat criminal groups operating in the Lacandon zone. This is their petition for protection.
As with the Frontera Comalapa, the communities of this region are experiencing a reign of terror perpetrated by organized crime, and largely ignored by the federal government.
Another portrait in Avispa Midia’s series, Chiapas: Disappearing on the Southern Border of Mexico.
A 45-year-old ejidal commissioner who called for a military presence to protect his town, was taken from a bus…
In his ongoing love affair with the Armed Forces and the progressive militarization of the Mexican state, AMLO decorates General Salvador Cienfuegos, accused by the DEA of involvement in drug trafficking.
This article is the first in Avispa Midia’s series, Chiapas: Disappearing on the Southern Border of Mexico.
It describes the context of the violence between the drug cartels as it has devolved over the past two years and the lives of thousands of residents that are being affected. We will be translating the whole series as they are published.
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