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Migrants walk along the highway through Arriaga, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
Migrant caravan regroups in Mexico after government promise of papers falls through
About 2,000 migrants have resumed their journey through southern Mexico, after participants were left without the papers the Mexican government appeared to have promised.
 
A migrant holds a photo of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that reads in Spanish: "The lives of migrants also matter" as their caravan stops to block the highway in Huixtla, Mexico, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. About 3,000 migrants, mostly from Central America, are protesting for the government to issue them temporary documents allowing them to continue north to the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar Clemente)
Caravan of 3,000 migrants blocks highway in southern Mexico
About 3,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti have blocked traffic on one of Mexico’s main southern highways to demand transit or exit visas to reach the U.S. border.
 
FILE - A supporter of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN, holds up a poster whose Zapatista Mayan community was allegedly shot at by paramilitaries, during a march against the recent wave of violence that shook the Mexican state of Chiapas, in Mexico City, Thursday, June 8, 2023. The Zapatista indigenous rebel movement in southern Mexico said in a statement posted Monday, Nov.6, 2023, that it is dissolving the “autonomous municipalities” it declared in the years following the group's 1994 armed uprising. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
Mexico’s Zapatista rebel movement says it is dissolving its ‘autonomous municipalities’
The Zapatista rebel movement in southern Mexico says it is dissolving the “autonomous municipalities” it declared in the years following the group’s 1994 armed uprising. The Zapatistas led a brief rebellion to demand greater Indigenous rights.
 
Assailants attack police station in Mexico as search continues for 16 abducted police employees
Assailants have tossed at least one explosive device at a police station in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas, as a massive search continues for 16 police employees abducted at gunpoint on a local highway.
 
Gunmen abduct 14 state police officers in the Mexican state of Chiapas
Armed men have abducted 14 state police officers in southern Mexico. The kidnapping on Tuesday prompted a heavy deployment of federal and local forces.