Corruption and impunity prevail on the Mexico-Guatemala border: Rigoberta Menchú

by times news cr

2024-07-16 09:39:05

The activist and peace advocate, Rigoberta Menchu ​​Tumcondemned the situation of ungovernability and narco-state in the frontera of Mexico y Guatemala, where there is no control in the arms trafficking, drugs y migrants.

The Nobel prize He said there is a complicity between corruptionimpunity, drugs and corporations that have been arming themselves to usurp power.

“A decade ago it was not acceptable in political analysis to talk about narco-states, but well, we should remove that state hood to try to visualize the narco-states,” he said at the Ibero-American meeting. Voices for PeaceMade in Leon, Guanajuato.

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He said it is not a civil responsibility that high-powered weapons are ending up in the hands of people who are supposed to be outside the law.

He stressed that migration cannot be seen only as humanitarian aid and human movements.

“There are very big powers at play, but can one term of government control that? I would say no,” he said.

For this reason, Rigoberta Menchú suggested that new strategies should be put in place, strengthening state institutions so that they really have the power to control the situation.

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“But to do so, it must be impervious to corruption, impunity, influence peddling, and we must rescue the powers of the state,” he said.

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2024-07-16 09:39:05

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