14/01/2025
21/12/2024
In recent years, due to its geographical location connecting the north with the south of the American continent, Chiapas has become a territory disputed by different criminal groups, which has led to an alarming increase in violence in the state to which the entire population is vulnerable.
21/10/2024
The International Service for Peace (SIPAZ) regrets the murder of Father Marcelo PĂ©rez PĂ©rez that occurred on October 20 in San CristĂłbal de Las Casas. According to preliminary reports, he was shot four times by unknown persons on a motorcycle while he was heading to the Guadalupe temple, after celebrating mass in the Cuxtitali neighborhood in this same city.
30/06/2024
In April 2024, at the facilities of the Institute of Intercultural Studies and Research C.A., a change of direction of the organization was made. Ernesto Martin Guerrero Zavala left office and Gerardo Torres Estrada took over as the new director.
30/06/2024
For some years now, various human rights organizations and groups of searching families have been documenting and denouncing the crisis of disappearances in Mexico. In 2023, people spoke with surprise about the alarming figure that had been reached: 100 thousand missing people; today there are more than 116 thousand.
30/06/2024
On June 2nd, 2024, more than 98 million Mexican citizens were called to vote in the largest elections Mexico has held to date.
22/03/2024
In January, the report âVoting Under Fire: Understanding Political-Criminal Violence in Mexicoâ was presented, which documents that in 2023 there were 574 incidents of political-criminal violence. 264 of them were against public officials or candidates for elected office, says Data Civica, the consulting firm behind the report.
24/01/2024
27/09/2023
In August, the Forum âSpinning Alternatives with the Children of Chiapasâ was held in San Cristobal de Las Casas, convened by Melel Xojobal, the Network for the Rights of Children and Adolescents (REDIAS) and Slamalil Kinal.
27/09/2023
In June, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) recognized that during his government recorded homicides have exceeded those of previous administrations. In 2019, 34,690 murders were recorded, in 2020, 34,554, in 2021, 33,308 and in 2022, 30,968, while in the first quarter of 2023 there were 9,912, an average of 83 per day.
08/02/2023
17/01/2022
08/12/2021
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.
12/01/2021
06/03/2020
National and international solidarity has been able to take many forms at different times, in different locations, and in different situations of conflict
22/01/2020