In a statement published on August 14, the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) denounced the San Cristóbal de Las Casas municipal government—led by Mayor Fabiola Ricci Diestel (of the Morena party)—for obstructing the right to a hearing for informal vendors living in conditions of extreme marginalization. According to the organization, this

@Tlachinollan In a statement released on August 16, the Tlachinollan Mountain Human Rights Center, together with academics, artists, journalists, writers, and national and international social organizations, denounced that authorities at the Las Cruces prison in Acapulco prevented them from entering to visit Rodrigo and Modesto León Jacinto, members of the Council of Ejidos and Communities

On August 15, during a press conference organized by Espacio OSC and the Chiapas Observatory for Human Rights Defenders (El Obse) and held in San Cristóbal de las Casas, the #ProtegerLaDignidad campaign was unveiled, and a tour of the Costa and Tapachula regions was announced. The initiative aims to raise awareness of and analyze the

@Las Abejas On August 12, from the community of Acteal in the Chiapas Highlands, the organization Sociedad Civil Las Abejas de Acteal and survivors of the 1997 massacre held a press conference to demand that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issue the Substantive Report on Case 12.790, Manuel Sántiz Culebra et al. (Acteal