Chiapas

Chiapas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas, is one of the states that make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises 124 municipalities and its capital and largest city is Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Other important population centers in Chiapas include Ocosingo, Tapachula, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Comitán, and Arriaga. Chiapas is the southernmost state in Mexico, and it borders the states of Oaxaca to the west, Veracruz to the northwest, and Tabasco to the north, and the Petén, Quiché, Huehuetenango, and San Marcos departments of Guatemala to the east and southeast. Chiapas

The Tzotzil are an Indigenous Maya people of the central highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. As of 2000, they numbered about 298,000. The municipalities with the largest Tzotzil population are Chamula (48,500), San Cristóbal de las Casas (30,700), and Zinacantán (24,300), in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

armed conflicts between indigenous peoples, drug cartels and central government in the state of Chiapas, Mexico

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Indigenous people of Mexico

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massacre of 45 Roman Catholic indigenous people attending a prayer meeting, carried out on December 22, 1997, by the paramilitary group Mascaras Rojas (Red Masks)

thumbnail|Flag of the Neozapatista movement Neozapatismo or Neozapatism (sometimes simply Zapatismo) is the political philosophy and practice devised and employed by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (, EZLN), who have instituted governments in a number of communities in Chiapas, Mexico, since the beginning of the Chiapas conflict.

airport in Palenque, Mexico

rebellion coordinated by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation

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Mexican Christian pacifist civil society group

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