Tag Archives: Mexico

The Mexican state of Chiapas, Mexico, bordering Guatemala, faces an intense and underreported conflict involving the Mexican government, government-aligned paramilitaries, cartels, and the EZLN or Zapatista movement (WordPress). Chiapas, home to one of the largest indigenous populations of the country -26% of the state’s inhabitants -is also an epicenter for about half of all unresolved […]

A deadly earthquake hit southern Mexico near Oaxaca on Tuesday, killing at least six people (Reuters). The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.4, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (NPR). Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that 147 aftershocks had occurred before noon (NPR). Additionally, a 4.9 magnitude earthquake hit Mexico in the same […]