2024-07-26 21:35:18
They arrived as a family, they fled from Chiapas in the face of the violence generated by the organized crime. Children, elderly, men and women – carrying some plastic bags with the most necessary things – were received by residents of communities on the border of Guatemalawho gave them shelter.
“They all come from Chiapas “They are taking refuge here, because we are going to give them shelter. We hope that you (mayor) can help us with food or some institution that can provide food, please,” one of the Guatemalans who gave asylum to the displaced people from Chiapas can be heard narrating in a video that circulates on social networks.
The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arevalo de Leonreported this Wednesday that at least 600 people have arrived from They just say that from the Border, to his country, in search of refugio in Guatemalan communities.
At a press conference, Arevalo of Leon andHe explained that the Mexicans who crossed the border “are escaping the confrontation between groups that is taking place on the Mexican side.”
They began to arrive on Tuesday at various points in the municipality of Cuilco, in the department of Huehuetenango, detailed the Executive Secretariat of Conred, coordinator that integrates the group of institutions that will provide care to the mobilized people.
SECURITY IS STRENGTHENED AT THE BORDERA
For her part, the governor of Huehuetenango, Elsa Hernandez, He said that security measures are being implemented for Guatemalans in anticipation of the arrival of the Mexicans.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense, Ann Marie Argueta, He explained that his country’s army “proceeded to reinforce the border with Mexico to protect the lives of the Guatemalan population.”
CRIMINALS EXPEL THEM
This Tuesday a group of organized crime arrived at the town of San José, in the municipality of Amatenango of the Frontera, and evacuated all the inhabitants, who fled with the little they could carry.
In an interview with this media, the professor of the Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Gerardo González Figueroa, explained that given the magnitude of the attacks and blockades, residents of Amatenango prefer to flee to Guatemala, It is easier to seek refuge in that country than in Comitan or Soconusco.
“It is a confrontation between blockades, threats, especially between the first hours of the day or towards night, this becomes much harder (…) given the continuous situation of attacks, that is why they preferred to go to the closest place which is Guatemala”, he explained.
He noted that so far, federal and state authorities have not taken any action to resolve the violence in Chiapas.
“What is really surprising is that, on the part of the state government, it is practically as if nothing is happening (…) the state government boasts at the same information tables, but these tables are ineffective in the face of the magnitude of the problem,” he said. Gonzalez Figueroa.
He indicated that the surveillance It occurs in tourist areas, because it is holiday week, but towards conflict zones there is no presence of security agents.
For three weeks, the inhabitants of the mountains of Chiapas have suffered displacement, attacks, disappearances, by organized crime; there is even talk of the appearance of a new Chiapas and Guatemala Cartel.
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2024-07-26 21:35:18