The teachers were found only one day after a Morena mayor organized a shock group which shot at striking teachers and kidnapped 15 of them in neighbouring Oaxaca.
Neighbouring Oaxaca, also governed by Morena, made news last year for ordering assault rifles from israeli weapons manufacturer IWI.
The Zapatistas released images of vehicles belonging to the Mexican Army, the Chiapas Prosecutor’s Office, and state and municipal police from Ocosingo “at the service of Huixtán farmers.”
From one of the poorest states in the country, the President said that the Fourth Transformation governments apply the principle of putting the poor first.
An elite police group formed by Chiapas’ state government “intimidates the population, raids & invades properties.”
Leonardo Toledo, a scholar from Chiapas explains how cartel conflict and a glut of weapons are creating a perfect storm in Chiapas, Mexico’s southernmost state and birthplace of the Zapatistas.