TERRITORIAL DISPUTES IN THE EJIDO CUXTITALI EL PINAR IN SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS, IN A CONTEXT OF THE EMERGENCE OF ARMED CIVIL GROUPS (2020-2023)

Authors

  • Araceli Burguete Cal y Mayor
  • Miguel Ángel Romero Cruz

Abstract

The article analyzes the emergency and operation of an armed group that busted in the Cuxtitali El Pinar, ejido of the Mayan tsotsil population in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Since 2020 the armed group has carried out invasions of land and springs with the purpose of selling them, without the authorization of the ejido’s assembly. We employ the concept of “criminal governance” (ARIAS, 2017), which refers to the territorial dominance of a group that submits the local population to their rules through weapons. This situation has infringed on the ejido rules of coexistence, the social fabric, and the solidarity networks. The current battlefield is between the norms of the community security system and the attempt by the armed group to install its criminal governance over the ejido territory.

KEYWORDS: Cuxtitali El Pinar. Popular Front Sentiments of the Nation (FPSN). Criminal governance. Armed civilian groups.

Image: Ejido Cuxtitali El Pinar in September 2023. Author: Miguel Ángel Romero Cruz.

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Author Biographies

Araceli Burguete Cal y Mayor

Professor-Researcher at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology, Southeast Unit (CIESAS-Mexico)

Miguel Ángel Romero Cruz

Research assistant at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology, Sureste Unit (CIESAS-Mexico)

Ejido Cuxtitali El Pinar in September 2023. Author: Miguel Ángel Romero Cruz.

Published

2023-10-27

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Dossier Anthropological Dialogues Brazil-Mexico: CIESAS - PPGA/UFPB