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Banda Idol Julión Álvarez Escapes Unharmed After Gunfight Near His Ranch in Chiapas

In 2017, Julión was linked to Mexican Flores Drug Trafficking Organization by the U.S. Department of Treasury

Cartel turf war rages in Mexico's Chiapas as groups fight over territory

Cartel turf war rages in Mexico's Chiapas as groups fight over territory

People in Mexico’s southernmost state, Chiapas, have for the last year and a half, been living through a conflict between rival criminal groups. The Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Nueva Generacion Cartel are both vying for control of the territory. The state, which borders Guatemala, has long been a hotspot…

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

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

The Zapatista rebel movement in southern Mexico says it is dissolving the “autonomous municipalities” it declared in the years following the group’s 1994 armed uprising

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Mexican officials find 175 migrants in truck near southern border

Mexican authorities found 175 migrants, mostly from Guatemala, crowded into a truck trailer in the southern state of Chiapas, the National Migration Institute (INM) said on Friday, in the latest mass human smuggling incident to be detected in the country.

New migrant caravan heads for Mexico City to speed up legal route to US

Thousands of migrants, detained for months in southern Mexico, formed a new caravan in protest on Sunday to head for the capital to speed up their applications for U.S. asylum.

Mexico Weaves Fashion Policy to Help Indigenous Communities

Clothing designers inspired by traditional Mexican motifs, embroidery and colors are exhibiting their work at a fashion fair in Mexico City promoted by the government to support marginalized Indigenous communities. Traditional blouses made by the Tzotzil people of Chiapas, embroidered patterns from Michoacan and shirts from Oaxaca were among the…

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Family in state of 'permanent anguish' after happy couple vanish in Mexico

Relatives of missing Assya Madjour, 50, and her husband Michel, 57, say they do not believe the hypothesis that the pair have outlined in their last email

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Dozens of Mexico students mysteriously poisoned

At least 57 students were poisoned by an unidentified substance in a rural secondary school in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, according to local authorities.

Jewish sect in Mexico escape from detention after police raid

Jewish sect in Mexico escape from detention after police raid

A group of about 20 members of a fundamentalist Jewish sect escaped from a Mexican detention center in the southern state of Chiapas on Wednesday night, according to a Reuters reporter who filmed the incident.

Trans Citizens Fight for ‘the Right to Exist’ in Mexico

Trans Citizens Fight for ‘the Right to Exist’ in Mexico

Unable to change their ID documents to reflect their gender, trans residents in Chiapas & 12 other Mexican states are denied certain rights.

Up to 15,000 may join largest ever migrant caravan to walk through Mexico to US

Up to 15,000 may join largest ever migrant caravan to walk through Mexico to US

Thousands of people huddled together for protection move north as leaders gather for Biden’s Summit of the Americas in LA

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Hurricane Agatha lashes southern Mexico with rain as record-breaking May storm

Hurricane Agatha lashes southern Mexico with rain as record-breaking May storm

Hurricane Agatha plowed into beach resorts on Mexico's southern Pacific coast on Monday, bringing torrential rains and the threat of flooding as the first named storm in the eastern Pacific this year.

Mexican government’s response to Haitian migrant wave was chaotic, report claims

Mexican authorities had limited capacity to manage the country’s recent wave of Haitian migrants, who lived in dire conditions and struggled with the country’s immigration system, said a report published Thursday by an international refugee advocacy organization.

Hundreds of skulls found in Mexican cave were sacrificial victims killed between AD900 and 1200

Hundreds of skulls found in Mexican cave were sacrificial victims killed between AD900 and 1200

Spanish conquistadors reported seeing such skull ‘racks’ in 1520s

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Mexico's migration institute suspends operations in Tapachula after 'violent' incident

Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) said on Friday it has temporarily suspended operations in the city of Tapachula, in Chiapas, after some staff were injured in what it called a "violent" incident involving migrants.

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