SIPAZ Activities (mid-August to mid-November, 2022)
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January 5: Halt to Violence in the communities of Aldama is demanded from Europe
January 7: Bodies of alleged murderers of journalist Fredy Lopez Arevalo are found.
January 10: Local Congress appoints provisional Municipal Council in Oxchuc in the midst of a climate of violence that did not cease.
January 11: Members of an organization called “Coordinadora de Organizaciones por el Medio Ambiente para un Chiapas Mejor” (COMACH) block the entrances and exits of San Cristóbal de Las Casas to demand the release of its leader.
January 18: International NGOs Express Concern over Wave of Violence against Indigenous Peoples.
January 24: Mexican State Publicly Apologizes for the Forced Disappearance of the Antonio Gonzalez Mendez in 1999.
January 27: About 20 migrants are kidnapped, assaulted, injured and several women were sexually abused by armed men in the municipality of Huixtla.
February 5: Concern over Escalation of Violence in Oxchuc. Alleged supporters of Hugo Gomez Santiz set fire to several houses located in the town of Oxchuc.
February 9: the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) requests the implementation of precautionary measures in favor of migrants who demonstrate outside the immigration regulation offices in Tapachula.
February 10: The National Search Commission (CNB) enters the municipality of Pantelho to search for the disappeared persons after the popular uprising for greater security in July 2021
February 17: Around two thousand indigenous people hold a march in the municipality of Benemérito de las Américas where they demand the suspension of two palm oil processors.
February 21: A new series of shooting attacks is reported on the disputed border between the municipality of Aldama and Santa Martha in Chenalhó.
February 22: A demonstration against violence is held in San Cristóbal de las Casas after the murder of Paula Ruiz on February 19 in the same city.
March 2: The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) reappears publicly with the pronouncement “There will be no landscape after the battle” about the war in Ukraine.
March 13: thousands of Zapatistas fill the streets of San Cristobal de las Casas, Ocosingo, Palenque, Las Margaritas, Altamirano and Yajalon against the war in Ukraine: Against All Wars: All Arts, All Resistance, All Rebellion!
March 15: “persecution, threats and intimidation” against the parish priest in Chicomuselo are denounced.
March 20: churches of different religious denominations convene the “Pilgrimage for Peace, for Life, against Violence and Discrimination” in Las Margaritas after a confrontation in February which ended with two people dead and several injured..
March 24: the President of Mexico signs the “Decree by which an area of 102-26-09 hectares of the Chicoasen ejido is expropriated for reasons of public utility” to enable the construction of a new hydroelectric plant for Chiapas, the Chicoasen II dam.
April 3: the Second Zoque Congress is organized to denounce the threats to life and territory present in their territory.
April 4: special elections in two of six municipalities are suspended due to the lack of conditions to carry them out.
April 14: environmentalists in San Cristóbal de Las Casas are attacked when they pretended to have a meeting to discuss the issue of the declaration of critical habitat of mountain wetlands.
April 30: there have been reports of alleged clashes in the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, specifically in the well-known San Gregorio Chamic crossroads.
May 2: members of the Regional Organization of Coffee Growers of Ocosingo (ORCAO) attack the communities of Emiliano Zapata and La Resistencia, located in the town of Moises Gandhi, provoking the displacement of various families.
May 16: Halt to violence against BAEZLN in Nuevo San Gregorio is demanded.
May 17: the brothers Abraham and German Lopez Montejo are released after spending 11 years, three months and 28 days arbitrarily and illegally deprived of their liberty for a crime they did not commit.
May 18: a group of approximately 100 members of the group “El Machete” takes over the facilities of the Chiapas State Congress.
May 21: given the growing wave of violence that has hit the state, nearly a thousand people make a pilgrimage for peace in the northern part of the state.
June 1: the criminalization of human rights defenders from San Juan Cancuc is denounced
June 2: after the 2022 Collectively Building Paths to Peace with Justice Encounter, partners from the Civil Service for Peace hold a press conference.
June 4: A pilgrimage is organized in front of the San Cristóbal prison to demand the release of five Tzeltal indigenous people from Cancuc.
June 7: journalists who work in the city of Tapachula, decide to leave the country after receiving death threats.
June 8: the municipal president of Teopisca, Ruben de Jesus Valdez Diaz, is assassinated.
June 14: several armed and hooded individuals take control of a part of San Cristobal de Las Casas for several hours without the authorities intervening sowing panic in the population.
June 16: the Believing People (Pueblo Creyente) and various civil organizations carry out a pilgrimage for peace in San Cristobal de Las Casas.
June 17: A Joint Statement from Religious Organizations and Groups: “Unstoppable Increase in Violence in Chiapas” is released.
June 21: the president of Pantelho municipal council, Pedro Cortes Lopez, is arrested along with another person for their alleged participation in the disappearance of 19 people in this municipality on July 26th, 2021.
June 30: the Civil Observation Brigades (BriCO) installed in the Zapatista community of Nuevo San Gregorio are suspended due to the death threats received by national and international observers present there.
July 1: Residents of Teopisca set up blockades in some highway sections of the state to demand that the former municipal trustee, Josefa Sánchez, be appointed municipal president.
July 5: thousands of people summoned by Believing People of the Diocese of San Cristobal hold pilgrimages simultaneously in at least eight municipalities to demand the end of violence .
July 7: CSO condemn the criminalization of Father Marcelo Pérez after an arrest warant was issued against him.
July 14: the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights visits communities with tprecautionary measures in the municipalities of Aldama, Chalchihuitan and Chenalho.
July 15: Confrontation between groups of the organized crime in the municipalities of La Trinitaria and Frontera Comalapa.
July 19: the Fray Bartolome de Las Casas Center for Human Rights denounces the forced displacement of six Zapatista families and the burning of their houses and belongings in the Comandanta Ramona autonomous municipality.
July 25: a group of between three and four thousand people of various nationalities leaves the city of Tapachula heading for Huixtla, with the intention of reaching the offices of the Comprehensive Border Transit Attention Center (CAITF) in order to obtain permits that allow them to travel through Mexico.
July 29: members of the municipal police fire tear gas against people from the Independent Union of Municipal Workers of the San Cristobal City Council (SITRAM) who were demonstrating at the facilities,
July 30: Tila Ejido march to commemorate the 88th anniversary of the recognition of their communal lands.
August 11: a press conference is held in the framework of the 13th anniversary of the release of the perpetrators of the Acteal Massacre by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation
August 12: Residents of Teopisca once again begin a total road blockade on the Teopisca-Comitán federal section.
August 17: The Secretary of National Defense (SEDENA) reports that, in coordination with the Mexican Air Force (FAM), they seized a plane from South America, which contained approximately 136 kilos of cocaine inside.
August 30: Teopisca residents detain soldiers and officials in blockades. They are evicted after being fired at with tear gas.
September 18: the Women’s Movement for the Defense of Mother Earth and Our Territories Assembly holds a meeting in Chapultenango and denounces that in all our territories Organized Crime is governing.
September 20: more than a thousand men and women participate in a pilgrimage in Bachajon, in the municipality of Chilon, with the aim of demanding the immediate release of nine community leaders and defenders.
September 21: Roberto Flores, journalist and director of the “Chiapas Denuncia ¡Ya!” website is reported missing.
September 29: residents of the community of Santa Martha in the municipality of Chenalho report shooting, burning of houses and the displacement of 32 families, leaving four people dead.
October 9: a confrontation breaks out between two groups of armed civilians, apparently members of antagonistic organized crime groups in Jiquipilas.
October 21: threats, harassment, and intimidation against human rights defenders in Chicomuselo due to the interest of companies and individuals in restarting mining.
November 2: feminist groups, relatives of victims of femicide and the general public denounce the increase in violence against women in the state.
November 13: Confrontation in Ocozocuautla. A group of armed men attack state police officers. There were at least four state troopers injured, one civilian injured and another dead.
November 18: a boat carrying around 30 migrants capsizes off Puerto Arista in the state of Chiapas. Seven are missing and one under the age of nine deceased.
December 19 marks one year since the armed attack and forced displacement of five families in Nueva Palestina, Ocosingo. The victims of the attack demand the release of Versain Velasco Garcia and the appearance of Fredy Gomez Santiz who was disappeared.
December 22: the 25th anniversary of the Acteal Massacre and the 30th anniversary of the formation of the Civil Society Las Abejas are commemorated through different activities.