Mexico News » Chiapas News Mexico » Chiapas: Drug cartels' turf war in Mexico's Chiapas state sends villagers fleeing to Guatemala
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the empty town of Tila in Mexico's Chiapas state on June 12. A wave of violence has forced residents to flee. (Isaac ...
News Mexico » Chiapas: Organized crime weaves a new maritime trafficking network between Mexico and Guatemala
A series of recent seizures is further evidence of the pressure the US is exerting on the Mexican government and in Central America ...
News Mexico » Chiapas: Indigenous priest shot dead in Mexico’s increasingly violent Chiapas state
Father Marcelo Pérez prepares the Eucharist in Simojovel, in Mexico's Chiapas state, in this undated photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy David Agren) MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — An Indigenous Tzotzil priest ...
News Mexico » Chiapas: In Mexico's Chiapas state, Bishop Ruiz leaves large legacy
Long before Pope Francis spoke of a poor church for the poor and taking the church to the peripheries, Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia of San Cristobal de Las Casas built the church in southern Chiapas ...
News Mexico » Chiapas: 9 more people killed in attacks on political candidates as violence escalates days before elections in Mexico
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 ...
News Mexico » Chiapas: Jesuits and local church deplore violence as cartel turf war cut off towns in southern Mexico
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Drug cartel turf battles cut off a series of towns in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas, near the Guatemala border, Mexico’s president acknowledged on Sept. 25. President ...
News Mexico » Chiapas: Digital education in Chiapas: A lever for a better future for young girls
In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, where mist curls over green mountains, my grandmother still lives in the small rural community where she raised her family. She never learned to read or write. My ...