On July 1st of this year, the free trade agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada, known as USMCA, came into force, an update of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that was signed 26 years ago.
Journalist Mario Leonel Gomez Sanchez, correspondent for El Heraldo de Chiapas, was murdered in Yajalon. Months before, he had filed a complaint to the State Attorney General's Office regarding death threats against him.