Organización y procedimiento del sistema de justicia indígena en las comunidades de Chiapas

The traditional indigenous justice system in Mexico and the mechanisms for the resolution of their conflicts are often stressed by the legal state regulations and the human rights. This article refers to those particular situations, as well as to the organization and functioning of the justice syste...

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Main Authors: López Méndez, Lorenzo, Galindo Albores, Jesús Alfredo
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6994216
Source:REJIE: Revista Jurídica de Investigación e Innovación Educativa, ISSN 1989-8754, Nº. 20, 2019, pags. 89-110
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Summary: The traditional indigenous justice system in Mexico and the mechanisms for the resolution of their conflicts are often stressed by the legal state regulations and the human rights. This article refers to those particular situations, as well as to the organization and functioning of the justice system in the indigenous communities of Chiapas, an entity in southern Mexico, based on the analysis of the elements that support it: worldview, orality and casuistry. A justice that finds in the constitutional order and in international instruments the recognition of the uses and customs, to give way to a normative order not codified in the regulation and solution of internal and community conflicts, in parallel to the national legal system