Chiapas Archives - Americas Quarterly

Participants in The Hunger Project’s Chiapas initiative display their homemade products in Tzoeptic.

The Maya Women Beating Malnutrition and Becoming Entrepreneurs

A project in southern Mexico promotes land ownership and local food production.

A Mexican National Guard member monitors a checkpoint in Chiapas, Mexico, in June 2023.

Chiapas Fears Organized Crime, and Military Intervention

Ascendant cartel power on the Mexico-Guatemala border is alarming Indigenous communities, but so is the prospect of militarization.

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