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And at the end, They killed Father Marcelo

They had been trying for years. I met him in 2015. He then told me that they wanted to kill him.. As I repeated in 2016, in 2018 and in 2021. In their lands, The Highlands of Chiapas, The dead do not reach a higher rank than that of a corpse.. And the, brave and tenacious, He pointed his finger at the drug traffickers and murderers who finally killed him.

byJavier Brandoli

24 Oct., 2024

Refugees abandoned in the mountains of Chiapas

I realized this report in February 2018, before voluntarily leaving the correspondent of El Mundo in Mexico last April. The newspaper has not published yet and still receive weekly messages conflict, videos of displaced, statements of more violence and express request of groups of victims to please publish it and so a conflict that there is little information on the ground is known.

byJavier Brandoli

18 Oct., 2018

The highway of the Mayans

It was just a road. A creased line joining two points. Nothing. A twisting line. she was beautiful, different. A line. Nothing.

byJavier Brandoli

27 May, 2015

Simojovel: the spots of amber

The Chinese came one morning three years ago and changed everything.. They came to buy the pure amber, the one without spots. Prices have increased tenfold and now local artisans can no longer buy that amber, we can't pay it.

byJavier Brandoli

20 May, 2015

San Juan de Chamula: the strange Mayan rite of Coca Cola

We see people lying on the ground and the sacrifice of a rooster, to which a shaman twists the neck and passes it by the back to a teenager with a frightened gesture. "This is an important ceremony because of the number of candles that are burned. The flames are a barrier of soldiers against evil ”, Pancho explains.

byJavier Brandoli

13 May, 2015

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