I should link to the press release too: https://schoolsforchiapas.org/part-four-and-first-approach/
It doesn’t sound quite as dire as the article makes it seem. This was deliberated on and planned years ago, and it’s above all else clear that this isn’t the end of their movement as a whole.
They are doing a big reorg. Likely retooling for defensive action from the sounds of it.
The end of an era
the group cited waves of gang violence that have hit the area of Chiapas that borders Guatemala
okay so the usual culprits are the source of this