The tzeltal normative system in Amatenango del Valle, Chiapas, and the positive Mexican law in Contemporary Capitalism

Abstract

This paper analyzes the application of normative systems among the dwellers of the Tzeltal municipality of Amatenango del Valle, Chiapas. The levels and areas of relationship in which Tzeltales amatenangueros appropriate, use, live and suffer the implementation of the Mexican legal system and the indigenous legal system are studied. The relationship between two or more legal systems is shaping a distinct own Law in the administration of justice in the Peace and Indigenous Reconciliation Courts (JPCI) of this Chiapas Tzeltal municipality. The JPCI is a sui generis legal space created by governments of Mexico and the state of Chiapas as a result of the EZLN armed uprising in 1994, contributing to the protection of the human rights of the most vulnerable people: women, elderly and children.