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Indigenous Activist Marcelo Pérez Shot and Killed in Mexico
2 months ago

Indigenous Activist Marcelo Pérez Shot and Killed in Mexico

Associated Press  

Catholic priest and Indigenous activist Marcelo Pérez was killed in southern Mexico. The prosecutors’ office in the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas, in the state of Chiapas, said the religious leader was shot dead by two gunmen when he was in his van. Pérez was a member of the Tzotzil Indigenous people and had just finished serving a …

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Catholic priest, noted human rights defender, assassinated in southern Mexico
2 months ago

Catholic priest, noted human rights defender, assassinated in southern Mexico

LA Times  

A Roman Catholic priest who was a leading voice for peace and conciliation in Mexico’s strife-torn southern Chiapas state was assassinated Sunday after celebrating Mass, authorities said, sparking a wave of denunciations throughout the country. Mexico’s two largest criminal syndicates — the Sinaloa and the Jalisco New Generation cartels — are at war for smuggling routes in Chiapas, authorities say, …

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Mexico’s president downplays cartel violence that drove nearly 600 Mexicans into Guatemala
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Mexico’s president downplays cartel violence that drove nearly 600 Mexicans into Guatemala

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador thanked Guatemala on Friday for helping the nearly 600 Mexicans who have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence, but also minimized the violence that drove them there. In his first comments since the refugees fled earlier this week, the president went on to add that Mexico is a large …

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Authorities say 600 Mexicans have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence
5 months ago

Authorities say 600 Mexicans have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence

Associated Press  

GUATEMALA CITY — Nearly 600 Mexicans have fled across the border from Mexico into Guatemala seeking refuge from drug cartel violence, Guatemalan authorities said Wednesday. Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo said that his administration was coordinating with the local governments in Huehuetenango and the municipality of Cuilco to attend to the Mexicans “who are escaping conflict between groups that is taking …

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Gang violence in Mexico: 19 bodies discovered in latest grisly find
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Gang violence in Mexico: 19 bodies discovered in latest grisly find

LA Times  

Social media users in Mexico have been circulating a video featuring especially grisly images: a tangle of bloodied bodies, some in tactical gear, lying in a dump truck. This week, Mexican authorities said they discovered 19 bodies on an isolated dirt road, the latest deaths in a brutal trafficking war that has convulsed Mexico’s poorest and southernmost state. “The traffic …

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Drug gang turf war dumps dozens of bodies in Mexico truck
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Drug gang turf war dumps dozens of bodies in Mexico truck

Al Jazeera  

Probers say the clash was between the powerful Sinaloa cartel and another gang identified as ‘Chiapas and Guatemala’. At least 19 bodies were discovered in or around a dump truck in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said on Tuesday. An initial investigation said the clash was between the Sinaloa cartel, one of the most powerful in Mexico, and …

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Family of 6, including 3 children, killed in south Mexico, the latest in a string of family killings
6 months, 1 week ago

Family of 6, including 3 children, killed in south Mexico, the latest in a string of family killings

Associated Press  

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico — A family of six, including three children, were killed Friday by gunmen in the southern Mexico border state of Chiapas in a town marred by militia violence. Julio Pérez, the mayor of the Chiapas town of Pantelho, said the killings happened there Friday, and called it “a massacre.” Two warring militia groups suspected of being backed …

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Thousands of displaced residents in southern Mexico fear returning to their homes after violence
6 months, 1 week ago

Thousands of displaced residents in southern Mexico fear returning to their homes after violence

Associated Press  

YAJALON, Mexico — Thousands of residents displaced by violence that intensified this week in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas remained fearful Tuesday of returning to their homes. “They tell us to return but who can guarantee that we will be safe, that there won’t be problems?” said Gómez, speaking from a sports court turned camp for the displaced in …

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Wave of electoral violence in southern Mexico claims 14 lives in matter of days
7 months ago

Wave of electoral violence in southern Mexico claims 14 lives in matter of days

Associated Press  

TAPACHULA, Mexico — Attacks on political candidates in Mexico’s violence-torn southern state of Chiapas have left at least 14 people dead in recent days, local authorities and candidates said Sunday. On Thursday, a gunman opened fired at a campaign rally in a small town about 80 miles from the Guatemalan border, killing six people including a young girl and mayoral …

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A mayoral candidate and 5 other people killed in gunfire at a campaign rally in southern Mexico
7 months, 1 week ago

A mayoral candidate and 5 other people killed in gunfire at a campaign rally in southern Mexico

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — A mayoral candidate and five other people were killed when gunmen opened fire at a campaign rally in the violence-wracked southern Mexico state of Chiapas, officials said. State prosecutors said a young girl was among the six people killed in the gunfire late Thursday, along with mayoral candidate Lucero López Maza. The church statement said the heavily …

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Mexico’s leading presidential candidate stopped by masked men who ask for help in stemming violence
8 months ago

Mexico’s leading presidential candidate stopped by masked men who ask for help in stemming violence

Associated Press  

TAPACHULA, Mexico — Masked men stopped a vehicle carrying Mexico’s leading presidential candidate while she was traveling between campaign stops Sunday to ask that she address the violence in the southern state of Chiapas if she wins the June 2 election. Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, the governing Morena party’s candidate, remained in the front passenger seat of the …

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Mexico confirms some Mayan ruin sites are unreachable because of gang violence and land conflicts
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Mexico confirms some Mayan ruin sites are unreachable because of gang violence and land conflicts

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s government has acknowledged that at least two well-known Mayan ruin sites are unreachable by visitors because of a toxic mix of cartel violence and land disputes. “They demand your identification, to see if you’re a local resident,” he said, describing an almost permanent gang checkpoint on the road to Lagartero, a Mayan pyramid complex that is …

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Mexican president calls on civilians not to support drug cartels even if they pressure them
11 months ago

Mexican president calls on civilians not to support drug cartels even if they pressure them

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president called on citizens Friday not to support drug cartels, or oppose the installation of National Guard barracks, after a number of videos surfaced showing residents cheering convoys of cartel gunmen. Several videos have been posted on social media in recent weeks of villages in southern Chiapas, showing farmers lining roadways near the border with Guatemala …

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Zapatista indigenous rebel movement marks 30 years since its armed uprising in southern Mexico
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Zapatista indigenous rebel movement marks 30 years since its armed uprising in southern Mexico

Associated Press  

OCOSINGO, Mexico — Members and supporters of the Zapatista indigenous rebel movement celebrated the 30th anniversary of their brief armed uprising in southern Mexico on Monday even as their social base erodes and violence spurred by drug cartels encroaches on their territory. “We’re alone, like 30 years ago, because alone we have found the new path that we are going …

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Mexico’s Zapatista rebel movement says it is dissolving its ‘autonomous municipalities’
1 year, 1 month ago

Mexico’s Zapatista rebel movement says it is dissolving its ‘autonomous municipalities’

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — The Zapatista indigenous rebel movement in southern Mexico said in a statement posted Monday it is dissolving the “autonomous municipalities” it declared in the years following the group’s 1994 armed uprising. The Zapatistas led a brief rebellion to demand greater Indigenous rights, and since then have remained in their “autonomous” townships in the southern state of Chiapas, …

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Dozens of Central American migrants killed in Mexico crash
3 years ago

Dozens of Central American migrants killed in Mexico crash

Al Jazeera  

Truck crash in southern Mexican state of Chiapas one of the worst road accidents to hit the country in recent years. At least 54 people, most of them migrants and refugees from Central America, have died after the truck they were travelling in crashed in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said, in one of the worst road accidents …

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Violence eclipses upcoming midterm elections in Mexico
3 years, 6 months ago

Violence eclipses upcoming midterm elections in Mexico

Al Jazeera  

At least 89 politicians, including 35 candidates, have been killed during the electoral campaign, security consultancy says. “What will mark this election is the violence that arose mainly against opponents of state governments or the municipalities,” Etellekt Director Ruben Salazar told Al Jazeera. In sum, what we are witnessing here is political violence, where being part of the opposition implies …

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