Chiapas
San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, is a popular tourist destination, an economic hub for Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya people — and a thriving market in illicit pornography often victimizing underage indigenous girls from the poorest sectors of society. A local women’s group is now struggling to publicize the issue, identify and rescue the victims, […]
> Read MoreGet-rich-quick mining schemes can be tempting for local people, but the Zoque of northwestern Chiapas, Mexico, who have inhabited their lands for 2,500 years, aren’t buying it. Their communities have rejected all that Mexico’s national Energy Reform Project has slated for their territory: oil and natural gas wells, mines and hydroelectric projects. They are particularly […]
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