Urgent Measures Demanded To Stop Armed Violence against Children
From Palestine to Pantelhó, children continue to be victims of violence related to territorial disputes in increasingly alarming numbers.
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Chiapas: “The civilian population has been taken hostage,” civil society organizations denounce.
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.
Yesterday’s Paper
“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.”
“We are slaves, purely at the mercy of God.” The exodus continues in the Sierra of Chiapas.
Ángeles Máriscal interviews terrified residents in the region where the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation Cartels clash. Those fleeing leave everything behind. And those who stay are conscripted into the service of the cartels.
“The shadow of death covers our state of Chiapas,” thousands make the pilgrimage for peace.
On the Jubilee celebration of 100 years since the birth of Bishop Samuel Ruiz, and the 50th anniversary of the Indigenous Congress of 1974, thousands of parishioners marched in from all entries into San Cristóbal demanding an end to violence and a path to peace in the State.