Accompanied by a detachment of the Army and National Guard, Ángeles Máriscal visits la Piedad, where a family was murdered and their houses burned last week. President López Obrador claims that the story is a lie to create a false perception of violence. No official investigations have been initiated.
Another municipality in Chiapas chooses not to participate in elections, citing violence and disorder. They will opt for governance by Municipal Council.
Indigenous people of Pantelhó, Chiapas, will not participate in 2024 elections READ MORE »
Last week, Pantelhó was shuttered as organized crime group returned to the municipal seat claiming its motives of “protecting” the population from Los Machetes, a local self-defense group that emerged two years ago.
Fearing an onslaught of violence, residents gather en masse to demand that government authorities intervene to protect them.
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Almost three decades later, the municipalities are today once again in the throes of violence, but now with the aggravating factor of the presence of organized crime as new actors. For two decades now, criminal violence has entered the state and progressively taken over the municipalities. Its presence as a political actor in the territories has complicated the performance of electoral processes and public administration, but also undermines the autonomy of indigenous peoples, day by day penetrating deeper.
However, he left a seed of hope, commitment, action and struggle through peaceful means…On July 5, one year after his murder, members of different parishes of the Diocese of San Cristobal and Las Abejas de Acteal held public demonstrations to vindicate the struggle for life and justice through peaceful means.
