SIPAZ – Quaterly Report

15/12/2020

LATEST: COVID-19 – Health, economic and social Impacts increase

In August, Mike Ryan, director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Depart-ment, pointed out that the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic could be underestimated in Mexico due to the low number of tests carried out.
04/09/2020

ARTICLE: Expressions of Solidarity in Chiapas in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Much of the little that has been published in the national media about Chiapas since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic has been sensationalist news about attacks against health personnel, in addition to attacks on personnel from other agencies, among other violent actions, due to the suspicion that by sanitizing, they would be spreading the coronavirus.
04/09/2020

LATEST: Mexico continues to rise in the ranking of the countries most affected by COVID-19

In recent weeks, Mexico became one of the countries with the most cases of COVID-19 worldwide with at least more than half a million cases of contagion (sixth place) and, by mid-August, one of those with the highest mortality rates (third place), with more than 50 thousand dead.
02/06/2020

LATEST: Mexico – The risk of invisibility and aggravation of multiple pending human rights issues in the context of the pandemic

In April, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) presented his fifth quarterly report. Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, he reported that this year there will be 22 million beneficiaries of the different social programs and that in nine months two million new jobs will be created, among others by the Sembrando Vida (Sowing Life) program.
19/12/2019

ARTICLE: Civil Observation Mission in the Isthmus: Amplifying and connecting voices

With megaprojects such as the Trans-Isthmus Corridor, which will connect the ports of Salina Cruz (Oaxaca) and Coatzacoalcos (Veracruz), 47 thousand hectares already concessioned for mining, 28 wind farms and its great biodiversity, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is an area of priority for the government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO).
19/12/2019

FOCUS: Mayan Train

In the middle of the month of November of this year, the government of the "Fourth Transformation" convened the authorities and representative institutions of the municipalities and indigenous communities belonging to the indigenous Maya, Ch'ol, Tseltal, and Tsotsil, among other groups, from the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo, located in the area of the "Mayan Train Development Project".