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  • Chiapas: Abrazar a quien busca: zapatistas y madres buscadoras se encuentran en San Cristóbal
    by SIPAZ on 05/10/2026 at 20:06

    @Chiapas Paralelo Del 2 al 4 de octubre, San Cristóbal de las Casas fue punto de encuentro entre el EZLN y colectivos de familias buscadoras, antesala de la gira zapatista a la Ciudad de México en diciembre. El 2 de octubre, en el CIDECI-Unitierra, el subcomandante Moisés, el Capitán Marcos y una delegación de unos

  • CHIAPAS: Suchiapa: un operativo pone bajo la lupa a autoridades municipales
    by SIPAZ on 05/10/2026 at 20:04

    El 3 de octubre, un operativo coordinado entre autoridades federales y estatales dejó a 21 personas detenidas en Suchiapa, Chiapas, entre ellas el presidente municipal Jorge Lorenzo Lara Cordero y el exalcalde Alexis Nucamendi Gómez. También fueron detenidos mandos y elementos de la Policía Municipal. De acuerdo con las autoridades, las detenciones forman parte del

  • Chiapas : Muere Alberto Patishtán, referente de la lucha por la justicia
    by SIPAZ on 05/10/2026 at 20:01

    El 2 de octubre falleció en Ciudad de México el profesor tsotsil y defensor de derechos humanos Alberto Patishtán Gómez, originario de El Bosque, Chiapas. Tenía 60 años y había sido trasladado a la capital debido a una enfermedad que padecía. Patishtán permaneció 13 años en prisión, tras ser sentenciado a 60 años por su

  • NACIONAL: TLATELOLCO : 58 años después, la justicia sigue pendiente
    by SIPAZ on 05/10/2026 at 19:58

    El 2 de octubre de 1968, miles de personas se concentraron en la Plaza de las Tres Culturas, en Tlatelolco, Ciudad de México, como parte del movimiento estudiantil que exigía libertades democráticas, el fin de la represión y el respeto a los derechos ciudadanos. Durante el mitin, fuerzas militares y de seguridad intervinieron en la

  • National/International: UN Warns That Madres buscadoras Are at Risk
    by SIPAZ on 05/10/2026 at 20:10

    @La Journada Women searching for their missing relatives in Mexico face threats, attacks, murders, and disappearances. On September 30, independent United Nations experts sounded the alarm about this situation and called on the Mexican government to guarantee their protection as human rights defenders. The statement notes that, over the past year, at least five attacks

  • Guerrero/National: Arrest of an Indigenous CIPOG-EZ Activist Sparks Allegations of Criminalization
    by SIPAZ on 05/10/2026 at 20:08

    @El Sol de Acapulco On September 28, Sixto Mendoza Limpia, an organizer with the Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero-Emiliano Zapata (CIPOG-EZ) and a member of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), was arrested by agents of the State Attorney General’s Office at his home in the Nahua community of Alcozacán, in the municipality of Chilapa,

  • Guerrero/National: Ayotzinapa, 12 Years Later: New Leads, Old Question
    by SIPAZ on 01/10/2026 at 19:51

    @SALVADOR CISNEROS SILVA Twelve years after the disappearance of the 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, the case remains open and the central question remains unanswered: Where are the students? On the night of September 26 and early morning of September 27, 2014, the students were attacked and

  • International: Amnesty International Denounces Human Rights Violations in U.S. Immigration Operations
    by SIPAZ on 29/09/2026 at 17:54

    @Amnesty International On September 24, Amnesty International released a report on immigration enforcement operations carried out by the Donald Trump administration in Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C. The report, titled “We Had Whistles, They Had Guns”: Human Rights Violations in U.S. Immigration Enforcement Operations and Reasons to Abolish ICE, notes that U.S.

SIPAZ Report Vol XXXI Nº 2 – June 2026

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16/06/2026

LATEST: Fentanyl, Migration, and Tariffs Continue to Strain Bilateral Agenda Between Mexico and United States

In recent months, the relationship between Mexico and the United States has been marked by cooperation on security and border control, but also by sustained trade tensions and strong concerns regarding human rights.
16/06/2026

FOCUS: “Chiapas, Pending Peace”

On May 30th, the “Border Region Working Group” (GTRF), a network of civil society organizations of which SIPAZ is a member, publicly presented the report “Chiapas, Pending Peace,” an analysis of the situation of violence and human rights in the Sierra Frontera region of Chiapas during 2025.
16/06/2026

ARTICLE: International Accompaniment, a Tool that Remains Valid despite Contextual Changes

Although the quote with which we opened this article refers to the project of the Civil Peace Camps (CCP) and later the Civil Peace Brigades (BriCOs) developed by the Coordination of Non-Governmental Organizations for Peace (CONPAZ) and by the Fray Bartolome de Las Casas Center for Human Rights (Frayba) in Chiapas after the uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in 1994, it also refers to the backbone of what a year later was to become the International Service for Peace (SIPAZ): international accompaniment.

Important Dates

See also

Peace Process, War Process

Brief history of the conflict in Chiapas

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