Chicomuselo is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality ...
in the
Mexican state
The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a separate ent ...
of
Chiapas
Chiapas (; Tzotzil and Tzeltal: ''Chyapas'' ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the states that make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises 124 municipalities ...
, and also the name of the municipality's largest settlement and the seat of the municipal government. The municipality has an area of 1,043 km².
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 31,515.
As of 2010, the town of Chicomuselo had a population of 5,938.
[ Other than the town of Chicomuselo, the municipality had 272 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Pablo L. Sidar (3,070), classified as urban, and Unión Buenavista (1,600), ]Lázaro Cárdenas
Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (; 21 May 1895 – 19 October 1970) was a Mexican army officer and politician who served as president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940.
Born in Jiquilpan, Michoacán, to a working-class family, Cárdenas joined the Me ...
(1,321), Piedra Labrada (1,115), and Nueva América (1,057), classified as rural.[
Chicomuselo is currently suffering the exploitation of land in the hands of the Blackfire exploration LTD a mining company from Canada url=http://www.blackfireexploration.com/ On July 31, ]2019
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, The Canadian government
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denied that its embassy in Mexico had anything to do with the coverup of the 2009
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murder of activist Mariano Abarca
Mariano Abarca Roblero (1958–2009) was a community activist known for leading opposition against mining by Blackfire Exploration in his community of Chicomuselo in the state of Chiapas in Southern Mexico. He was a member of the Red Mexicana de ...
, reportedly at the hands of the Blackfire Exploration
Blackfire Exploration Ltd. is an exploration and mining company based in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada. The company holds mineral rights in British Columbia, Canada, and Chiapas, Mexico (through its 100% owned Mexican subsidiary company: Blackfire Ex ...
. Family members vow to continue the struggle.
See also
*Municipalities of Chiapas
Chiapas is a state in Southwest Mexico. According to the 2020 Mexican Census, it has the eighth largest population of all states with inhabitants and the 10th largest by land area spanning . Chiapas is officially divided into 124 municipalities, ...
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References
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Municipalities of Chiapas
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