SIPAZ Activities (mid-August to mid-November 2024)
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January 1: Dolores Hidalgo celebrates the 30th anniversary of the EZLN uprising.
January 12: Carmen López Lugo, a Chol indigenous man who served as an ejido surveillance adviser from 2018 to 2021 and was a member of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), is murdered in Tila, in northern Chiapas.
January 25: The Believing People make a pilgrimage in San Cristóbal de las Casas 13 years after the death of Bishop Samuel Ruiz García.
January: Dozens of families leave their homes in the municipalities of Chicomuselo, La Concordia and Socoltenango, in the Sierra de Chiapas, due to the impacts of drug violence derived from the dispute between the Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) and Sinaloa (CS) cartels.
February 8: The Ajmaq Network of Resistance and Rebellion demands that the authorities immediately stop the attacks by the Regional Organization of Coffee Growers of Ocosingo (Orcao) against bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) of Moisés and Gandhi, the official municipality of Ocosingo.
February 13: A report by civil society organizations points to the need to recognize the existence of the armed conflict in the border area of the state.
February 15: Coffee growers in Chiapas block the so-called ‘coffee route’ in Tapachula to demand that the multinational company Nestlé pay them a better price for the product.
February 20: “El Fallo”, leader of the motonetos in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, is executed.
February 21: A confrontation between armed groups identified for their links with organized crime groups and self-defense groups in both Chenalhó and Pantelhó leaves one dead and one wounded.
February 23: Berriozábal‘s Secretary of Security is assassinated along with his driver and assistant.
March 8: They march in the framework of International Women’s Day.
March 9: The community government of Chilón announces that its members will not vote in the June elections.
March 12: New armed attack in Pantelhó leaves 3 dead, including 2 minors.
March 14: Diego Pérez Méndez, pre-candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for mayor of San Juan Cancuc, is assassinated in San Juan Chamulhá.
March 19: Frayba turns 35.
April 2: Frayba reports 25 deaths after a confrontation in La Concordia between groups linked to organized crime and the National Guard.
April 9: Former PRI mayor of Amatenago del Valle, presumed candidate for reelection, is murdered.
April 11: Alfonso Gómez Gómez, mayor of Santiago El Pinar, a Tsotsil municipality in Los Altos de Chiapas, is kidnapped.
April 20: Tzotzil Catholics from the municipality of Chalchihuitán make a pilgrimage to the capital of this municipality to demand the closure of canteens and that the voting at the door “be in peace, without weapons or violence; that the vote be free and secret”.
April 24: More than 300 people march for peace and security in San Cristóbal de Las Casas after the kidnapping of a child.
April 27: Gutiérrez Vázquez, PT candidate for mayor of Frontera Comalapa, is kidnapped.
May 3: Candidate for the municipal presidency of Benemérito de las Américas is attacked.
May 13: The candidate for mayor of Rayón for the Chiapas Unidos Party, Luis Ángel Flores Calvo, is wounded by gunfire against him.
May 13: 11 people are killed in Nuevo Morelia, Chicomuselo in the context of clashes between the Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) and Sinaloa (CS) cartels on the border between Chicomuselo and Frontera Comalapa.
May 16: Candidate for the municipal presidency of La Concordia is murdered.
May 23: About a thousand Tsotsil parishioners from the parish of Simojovel de Allende, accompanied by members of the parishes of San Pedro Chenalhó and El Bosque, among others, carry out a pilgrimage “for Peace and Life.”
June 2: Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar (ERA), candidate of the Let’s Keep Making History coalition, wins the race for governor of the state with a wide advantage.
June 4: A confrontation between two antagonistic groups occurs in the capital of the municipality of Tila, leaving several houses and vehicles burned, in addition to looted stores.
June 14: A group of armed men shoot and kill a family in their home in the municipality of Pantelhó.
June 28: The body of Víctor Alfonso Culebro Morales, who was the administrator of the Facebook news page “Realities, Journalism with Truth,” is found.
June: Chiapas is the state where the most events of criminal-electoral violence have occurred in 2024.
1 July: Elements of the Ministry of National Defence are ambushed by armed civilians in Zamora Pico de Oro, in the municipality of Marqués de Comillas.
First week of July: 750 elements of the Army and National Guard are deployed in the state.
July 11: within the 190th period of public sessions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), the online hearing “Mexico: Impact of the Situation of Violence in Chiapas on Human Rights” is held.
July 20: An operation that included 20 vehicles and 87 agents of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SsyPC) manages to rescue 107 residents of the community of Tzanembolom, municipality of Chenalhó.
July 24: hundreds of people are massively displaced from Chiapas to Guatemalan territory fleeing the escalation of drug violence that this state has suffered in recent years.
July 25: the Tapachula Diocese denounces “indifference’’ of authorities to Narco Violence at Border .
July 30: Around 800 people from the community of La Esperanza, in Chenalhó, Chiapas, leave their homes due to an armed attack by the group known as “Los Herrera.”
August 2: AMLO inaugurates the La Concordia Bridge in the midst of the wave of violence in the area.
August 6: Members of the Las Abejas Civil Society announce the reopening of the Camp for Peace in the face of “overflowing” violence in the region.
August 7: José Díaz Gómez, Support Base of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (BAEZLN), imprisoned since November 25, 2022, is released.
August 17: A march for Peace is held in Suchiate.
August 21: Gunmen shoot journalist Ariel Grajales Rodas, editor of Página villaflores.com.
August 21: at least two people lost their lives and several more were wounded after an ambush of civilians who were forced into participating in a march and roadblock by an armed group before being shot by an antagonistic criminal group.
August 25: Extraordinary elections are held in the municipalities of Chicomuselo and Capitán Luis Ángel Vidal, which were suspended in June due to lack of security conditions.
September 3: A commando of armed men kidnaps Anibal Roblero Castillo, elected mayor of the municipality of Frontera Comalapa for the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) in the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez.
September 9: Journalist Dalia Villatoro denounces threats against her, allegedly by members of organized crime organizations.
September 13: thousands of people called on by the Ecclesiastical Province of Chiapas, made up of the Dioceses of San Cristobal, Tapachula and Tuxtla, go on a pilgrimage to the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez to denounce the lack of peace and security that prevails in the state.
September 14: the Sixth Assembly of the Women’s Movement in Defense of Mother Earth and Our Territories is held in Tonala.
September 19: Frayba denounces threats and attacks against team members.
October 1: 13 years after their displacement, displaced people from Banavil demand justice.
October 1: Six migrants die and 10 more are injured after a chase by elements of the Mexican Army in the municipality of Villa Comaltitlán.
October 3-5: On the occasion of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Indigenous Congress, 100 years after the birth of Bishop Samuel Ruiz García and 10 years after the Congress of the Pastoral of Mother Earth, approximately 1200 people, speaking Tsotsil, Tseltal, Ch’ol, Tojolabal and Spanish, gather in San Cristóbal de Las Casas.
October 11: In the framework of the International Day of the Girl, the organization Melel Xojobal A.C. calls for a march against violence and inequality against girls and adolescent women in San Cristóbal de las Casas.
October 12-14: An event is held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Indigenous Congress in Ocosingo.
20 October: Father and human rights defender Marcelo Pérez Pérez is murdered in San Cristóbal de Las Casas
October 23: the body of a 12-year-old girl, Liliana Guadalupe, originally from the municipality of Berriozabal, is found in Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
October 24 and 25: the “Regional Days for Our Missing Persons” are held in San Critóbal de las Casas.
October: Zapatista Community is threatened in Ocosingo.
November 3: Thousands of people make a pilgrimage for peace in San Cristóbal de Las Casas to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bishop Samuel Ruiz García. They demand justice for the murder of priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez.
November 25: women mobilize for International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women.
December 3: Machete takes over Pantelho following attacks on communities by Los Herrera.
December 8: New Governor is sworn in and introduces ‘’Pakal Group’’
December 10: the Fray Bartolome de Las Casas medal is awarded posthumously to Father Marcelo Perez amid claims for the lack of justice.
December 12: the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) declares the Mexican State responsible for the forced disappearance of a support base of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), in 1999, in the northern region of Chiapas.
December 21-22: 27th anniversary of the Acteal massacre.
December 26: Pilgrimage for peace in Palenque.
From December 28, 2024 to January 2, 2025: the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) celebrates the 31st anniversary of the armed uprising after organizing the “Encounter of Resistance and Rebellion”.