Mexicans Seek Refuge In Guatemala From Drug Cartel Violence Mexican refugees flee cartel violence in Chiapas to Guatemala, highlighting the need for international aid and cooperation. Top News · Jul 25, 2024
Massive displacement latest sign of fear in Mexican state disputed by cartels It was night when residents began hearing gunshots in the remote southern Mexico town of Tila The Independent UK · Jun 25, 2024
Violence And Displacement Escalate In Chiapas, Mexico Violence in Tila, Chiapas, Mexico leads to 4,000+ displaced residents amid gang attacks. President López Obrador attributes conflict to internal disputes, ... Top News · Jun 12, 2024
Mexico's drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday's elections than before Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday’s elections that will determine the presidency, nine governorships and about 19,000 mayorships and other local posts The Independent UK · May 31, 2024
Nine Dead After Attacks On Mexican Mayoral Candidates Two attacks against mayoral candidates in Mexico's June elections have left nine people dead in the southern state of Chiapas, the prosecutor's office in the organized crime-plagued region said Sunday. International Business Times · May 20, 2024
Cartels are influencing the Mexican elections through violence; some politicians are adapting to keep going The Washington Post followed senatorial candidate Willy Ochoa, who has beefed up his security detail to campaign in the state of Chiapas Latin Times · May 13, 2024
Mexico's leading presidential candidate is stopped by masked men at checkpoint A group of masked people in Mexico's Chiapas state stopped presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum at a checkpoint. The incident comes amid a spate of political assassinations. WEKU · Apr 22, 2024
Mexico's Zapatistas Mark 30th Anniversary Of Uprising Mexico's Zapatista demobilized guerrilla group prepared Sunday to mark the 30th anniversary of its pro-Indigenous, anti-capitalist uprising in an impoverished southern region where today drug traffickers are a greater foe than the military. International Business Times · Dec 31, 2023
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 Latin Times · Dec 30, 2023
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… France 24 · Nov 15, 2023
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 The Independent UK · Nov 6, 2023
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. Reuters · May 26, 2023
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. Reuters · Apr 23, 2023
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… Asharq Al-Awsat · Nov 20, 2022
Daily Mirror · Oct 14, 2022 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
Reuters · Oct 9, 2022 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.
Reuters · Sep 29, 2022 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.
Texas Observer · Aug 16, 2022 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.
The Guardian - US · Jun 3, 2022 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
Reuters · May 30, 2022 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.
Miami Herald · Apr 28, 2022 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.
The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2022 Hundreds of skulls found in Mexican cave were sacrificial victims killed between AD900 and 1200 Spanish conquistadors reported seeing such skull ‘racks’ in 1520s
Reuters · Mar 19, 2022 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.