They destroys forests that no one dared cut down, that were part of the communities' patromony. They do not respect ditches nor protections, because the hands that fire them do not rest, they are ubiquitous, invisible, unpunished, they have bared the surface. Never before a layer of smoke had covered such a large extension of the Chiapas territory. The peasants are astounded, indignant, sad and worried. In the Altamirano canada there are places where, at noon, one cannot distinguish another person two meters away, as it happens in the communities 10 de Abril and San Miguel Chiptic.
Smoke shoots up from everywhere.
Officially, up to now there are 46 thousand hectares burnt down in Chiapas. Also officially, at this moment 35 fires are being fought against. The largest at the selva and frontier regions. In the area of the Montebello lakes, between La Trinitaria and La Independencia, three thousand hectares are burning, and one thgousand two hundred at the Taniperla ejido. Between Pueblo Nuevo and Sitala, at Tila, in the northern region, the Capalna hill is ablaze.