Three Kidnapped Migrants Murdered in Tapachula, Chiapas
Thousands are arriving to Mexico on a weekly basis in search of a better life. Many never reach their final destination.
Thousands are arriving to Mexico on a weekly basis in search of a better life. Many never reach their final destination.
Almost 22,000 people went missing in Mexico last year, an average of 60 people per day. The search for missing loved ones can also result in disappearance or death. 22 searchers have been murdered since 2010.
As yet another failure for constitutional reform on indigenous right passes to the Congress, the trifecta of criminalization, militarization and organized crime lays seige to indigenous peoples across the Mexican countryside.
Since approximately 2021, the border of Chiapas with Guatemala has been plagued by an unacknowledged armed conflict based on the territorial dispute between organized crime structures for the control of goods, services, people, legal and illegal products, as well as the very lives of the local population. As the violence escalates, authorities and military personnel are, at best negligent, and in some cases, colluding with the crime groups in conflict.
“In his popular song Periódico de ayer, Héctor Lavoe narrated the story of a love that had similarities with a newspaper article of the previous day: Sensational when it came out at dawn // By noon already established news // And in the afternoon forgotten matter. In addition to the speed of the news, there is the “presentism” into which we as societies have settled and the noise with which certain information is hidden. Unfortunately, violence in our country is not yesterday’s news, it is a present reality that requires us to discuss it as one of the great national problems and to look for real solutions.”