Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/chiapas/ Our Thing Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:33:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://remezcla.com/wp-content/themes/remezcla/assets/images/social/precomposed-144x144.png Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/chiapas/ 144 144 This Mexican Mayor Couldn’t Attend an Event So He Sent a Cardboard Cutout of Himself In His Place https://remezcla.com/culture/mexican-mayor-couldnt-attend-event-sent-cardboard-cutout/ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 17:38:03 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?p=269066 When the mayor of Pichucalco can’t make it to events, he sends a cardboard cutout of himself instead. On Friday, photos of the mayor of Pichucalco, a town in Chiapas, began circulating on Facebook. Except, it wasn’t really him in the pictures. Unable to attend in the flesh, Moisés Aguilar Torres made an appearance in

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]]> Cardboard_Mayor Art by Alan López for Remezcla This Hospital In Chiapas Accepts Coffee Instead Of Cash For Medical Care https://remezcla.com/culture/this-hospital-in-chiapas-accepts-coffee-instead-of-cash-for-medical-care/ Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:41:12 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?p=247065 For low-income communities worldwide, medical care is often inaccessible. With health care institutions only accepting cash and insurance as methods of payment, it leaves many unable to receive proper treatment for even the most basic ailments. But at least one hospital in Chiapas is working to change that and allowing Indigenous patients to pay with

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