Chiapas News
They are the 10 Guatemalan merchants who disappeared in Chiapas
The Guatemalan consulate in Comitán, Chiapas, has confirmed the fact and provided the list of missing people.
Amid growing violence in the border region of...
National
Caravan of 3,000 migrants blocks highway in southern Mexico
About 3,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti on Wednesday blocked traffic on one of Mexico’s main southern highways to demand transit...
The EZLN announces the disappearance of its civil structure: “The cities of Chiapas are...
Subcommander Moisés, spokesperson for the movement, denounces “blockades, assaults, kidnappings, collection of fees, forced recruitment and shootings,” a product of the struggle between criminal...
Foreigners entering Mexico must have a visa, even if it is only for a...
The AMLO government has toughened the requirements to obtain this document; something similar to what takes place in the US.
Bad news for foreigners visiting Mexico. The Ministry of...
Economy
Tabasco and Chiapas are growing, but not enough to boost the country: CEESP
The Center for Economic Studies of the Private Sector (CEESP) assures that the economic growth registered by Tabasco and Chiapas is significant to encourage and promote local industry, but insufficient to give greater dynamism...
Indigenous women arrive in San Cristóbal to sell Christmas decorations
The women have been placed in the markets and mainly in the Real of Guadalupe
In the last 2 years, the installation of the altars or also known as "nacimiento de niño dios" was suspended...
Business
Mexican entrepreneurs carry out a joint trade mission to El Salvador and Costa Rica
Mexican businessmen want to do business in El Salvador and Costa Rica.
Mexican businessmen will carry out a joint trade mission to El Salvador and...
Artisans report a drop of up to 80 percent in sales at the Chiapas...
Producers and artisan producers assure that sales at the Expo de Corazón installed at the Chiapas 2022 Fair have fallen by up to 80...
Real Estate
Entertainment
Artist captures the essence of Chiapas in pictographic exhibition “Weaving Dreams”
Since her adolescence, Marlene Sánchez Guerrero showed interest in painting. Since then, she has dedicated herself to this art and currently exhibits her works,...
1st Festival with Pottery Tradition ready
The festival includes workshops, presentations, music, popular gastronomy, as well as sculpture and pottery samples.
“Corazón de Barro” is the title of the first edition...
GREAT closing of the XXI International Cervantino Baroque Festival in San Cristóbal de Las...
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas.- With joy and applause, the XXI International Cervantino Baroque Festival concluded this Sunday, October 15, which was held...
I’m an American who sent her daughter to public school in Mexico. She wore...
I lived in Chiapas, Mexico, from 2002 to 2020 while teaching English.
My oldest daughter went to public school there during those years.
Even in a...
Expats Crime
Bodies buried in Yucatan hostel could be french couple reported missing in San Cristobal...
Two bodies were found buried in a hostel in Valladolid, Yucatan and it is presumed that they may be the two foreigners reported missing.
Unofficially it is known that two bodies were found buried...
Travel
Mexico History
Intricate Maya nose ornament made of human bone discovered in Mexico
Archaeologists at the pre-Hispanic site of Palenque discovered the finely carved artefact, believed to be at least 1,100 years old
Archaeologists in the southern Mexican city of Palenque, Chiapas, have found a centuries-old, intricately carved Maya nose ornament made of human bone that offers insight...
Mexico Living
In San Cristóbal de Casas, most of the traditional festivities take place in the cemeteries, where those in the community will perform music and dances in honor of the dead. The town is also known to host altar contests.
Source: Youtube
San Cristobal Post
Heatlh
This is the state where Coca Cola is consumed the most in the world
A Conacyt study showed impressive figures, such as the average consumption per person in this southern Mexican state is five times higher than the rest of the country and 32 times higher than the world average.
The National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) reported...
