On December 8, 2024, a new government for Chiapas took office and announced the implementation of a “new” security strategy in response to the violence stemming from territorial and social disputes among organized crime groups. With a major communication campaign and under the narrative of a “recovered peace,” it has promoted in 2025 a partial decrease in some crime indicators and has deployed various security operations. From the Border Region Working Group, we ask ourselves whether the security strategy implemented by the government of the state of Chiapas seeks peace or pacification. Rather than achieving peace, pacification seeks to impose social control through the use of force. In the Sierra–Border Region of Chiapas, along the border with Guatemala, this strategy has not succeeded in curbing the violence crisis. On the contrary, throughout this year the situation is different: an increase in cases of families in forced displacement — both internal and toward the neighboring country — and in forced disappearances. These acts of violence, along with ongoing territorial disputes and the active presence of armed groups, reveal a far more complex panorama than that portrayed in official statements.

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