Chiapas is a powder keg ready to explode. Violence is multiplying at an alarming rate. Armed attacks by paramilitaries against Zapatista communities are frequent and intensifying. Organized crime groups organize the recruitment of young people to swell their armies. Thousands of displaced people live in the bush or in makeshift villages. In San Cristóbal, gangs of motorized delinquents engage in pitched battles to control markets and drug routes. Cartels fight in blood and fire for control of the border with Guatemala.

Chiapas is a powder keg ready to explode. Violence is multiplying at an alarming rate. Armed attacks by paramilitaries against Zapatista communities are frequent and intensifying. Organized crime groups organize the recruitment of young people to swell their armies. Thousands of displaced people live in the bush or in makeshift villages. In San Cristóbal, gangs of motorized delinquents engage in pitched battles to control markets and drug routes. Cartels fight in blood and fire for control of the border with Guatemala.

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