In September, the Chamber of Deputies approved the initiative of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) that grants the Ministry of National Defense full control of the National Guard.
In what has come to be characterized as a human rights crisis in Mexico, there are many thematic axes in which no significant progress has been seen to date.
Terrifying and shocking images traverse the globe these days: bloodied teddies, facades of buildings destroyed by bombing, frightened people in air-raid shelters, lifeless bodies in the middle of a street, ruins and what used to be, at some point, a flourishing city, with life, art, joy, with peace.
The murders of the journalists Yesenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana Garcia Olvera, which occurred on May 9th, 2022 in Veracruz, as well as that of Luis Enrique Ramirez Ramos, a journalist and political analyst who was kidnapped and murdered just four days earlier in the north of the country, brought the toll of communicators executed in Mexico to 11 so far in 2022.
In March, Amnesty International (AI) presented its report on the human rights situation in 2021 and the beginning of 2022 through an event held in Mexico City.
Talking about human rights in Chiapas, and especially the defense of indigenous peoples’ rights, it is impossible not to evoke the great work of Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia.
The twenty-seventh report on the activities of the La Montaña Tlachinollan Human Rights Center, Your Name that I Never Forget, presents the scenario in which a human rights crisis is developing that has kept the wounds of the Guerrero population open for decades.
Ten years after the entry into force of the Law for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists, in January, the Ministry of the Interior began work to reform it.
The panorama of violence in Chiapas and its various elements of complexity have been placed in public view in an alarming manner in recent months despite being present for decades (if not centuries).
If we have the chance to see some documentary that shows us images of the decades of the '60s and '70s in Chiapas, it is not difficult for us to stop thinking that those same takes could have been filmed today. More than 50 years after those original takes, in many regions of the state, the clock has stopped. But more than time, justice.