The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) has sown such terror in Mexico that an armed group has emerged in Chiapas to combat the hired killers and defend communities from the crushing pace of the criminal organization. This was made known through a video presentation disseminated on social networks.
In a previous article Raúl Zibechi examines the criminal underpinnings of gold mining in Peru.
In the southern Sierra of Chiapas, in the municipality of Chicomuselo, residents are living under same rampant violation of rights and intimidation as a Canadian mining company imposes its activities through any means necessary. The residents have had enough.
Raúl Zibechi calls on us to ask: What is the State that corresponds to this mafia capitalism, which destroys everything to accumulate more and more capital?
It is a State dedicated to war and to dispossession against those at the bottom.
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The continuing influx of thousands of migrants and refugees continue to cross the southern Mexican border is being used as a pretext by the AMLO government to militarize the area despite election campaigns to the contrary. This article examines the historical background of this process, the current state of affairs and its devastating effects on local populations.
Silence has been imposed like a heavy stone for the residents of the municipality of Santiago El Pinar, in the heart of the southern state of Chiapas. One day after residents of the town, inhabited by Tzotzil Indians, arrested, tied up with wires, lynched and burned a 26 year old man in a bonfire, the authorities who have arrived in the area to investigate the crime have been met with absolute silence.
Lynching in the Heart of Chiapas: Tzotzil Community Burns a Man They Accused of Robbery READ MORE »
