The Mexican state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, has seen a comparatively high number of murders so far this year. The influence of criminal groups has turned Chiapas into a state with a one of the highest rates of homicides, kidnappings and abuses towards migrants in Mexico.
Conditions have become so dire in certain places that hundreds of people fled Mexico for Guatemala earlier this year, displaced from their communities and seeking refuge from cartel violence.
