Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas — When the current state administration took office on December 8 of last year, one of its main mandates was to strengthen security to defeat organized crime and, above all, restore peace in Chiapas . Proof of this is the ongoing “clean-up” operation within various police departments since then.

Based on a request for information submitted by La Silla Rota to the Chiapas Attorney General’s Office (FGE), from December 2024 through October 25, 2025, 594 public servants have been detained, 84.3% of them municipal police officers . Loading…

The latest case involved the arrest of 16 officers from the municipality of Chilón, who blocked FGE agents in an attempt to “rescue” a detainee being transferred to Ocosingo. The man had been charged with gang activi

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