Chicomuselo
Chicomuselo is a municipio in the Mexican state of Chiapas, and also the name of the municipality's largest settlement and the seat of the municipal government. The municipality has an area of 1,043 km².
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 31,515.
As of 2010, the town of Chicomuselo had a population of 5,938. Other than the town of Chicomuselo, the municipality had 272 localities, the largest of which were: Pablo L. Sidar, classified as urban, and Unión Buenavista, Lázaro Cárdenas, Piedra Labrada, and Nueva América, classified as rural.
Chicomuselo is currently suffering the exploitation of land in the hands of the Blackfire exploration LTD a mining company from Canada url=http://www.blackfireexploration.com/ On July 31, 2019, The Canadian government denied that its embassy in Mexico had anything to do with the coverup of the 2009 murder of activist Mariano Abarca, reportedly at the hands of the Blackfire Exploration. Family members vow to continue the struggle.
