Early Monday morning, on the 25th, a confrontation between rival drug trafficking groups left at least two dead, one wounded, five burned vehicles and passenger buses with bullet impacts on the highways that connect Tuxtla Gutiérrez with Arriaga and Las Choapas, which were closed for six hours.
Faced with forced conscription by organized crime, familes have been forced to flee their homes in Chenalhó.
In the same week that the families of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa occupied the zócalo to demand justice, another Ayotzinapa student, Yanqui Kothan Gómez Peralta was killed in Chilpancingo, Guerrero.
Confronted with organized crime, corrupt political parties, and collusion between the two, indigenous Tseltal people in Chilón choose to govern themselves autonomously.
It was said recently that congratulating women on International Women’s Day is akin to congratulating students on October 2nd, the anniversary of the Tlatelolco Massacre. Without doubt, the Tsotsil women of Chenalhó have little to celebrate.
