2024-07-21 07:39:07
Today, Saturday, July 20, at least 1,000 people were reported 13 blockades in 7 municipalities of Chiapas; They point to the organized crime of being responsible for the roads being closed; this is what happens.
Chiapas is not living its best moment because of the violence faced by various areas of the state, which, due to the organized crime disputes throughout the territory, have caused the forced displacement of thousands of its inhabitants.
Just today, a clash was also reported in Amatenango de la Frontera, Chiapas; and in previous days there were several kidnappings by organized crimeknown as “lifts”.
What’s happening in Chiapas? At least 13 blockades reported in 7 municipalities
Since early this morning, Saturday, July 20, it is reported that the Sierra Madre of Chiapas is blocked with at least 13 roadblocks in 7 municipalities.
Journalist Isaín Mandujano pointed out that the Blockades and mobilizations in Chiapas would be made by civilians who are pressured by two organized crime groups who are fighting over the area.
Flatbed trucks, dump trucks and trucks with homemade armor were seen blocking roads in Chiapas in the municipalities:
- The Trinitarian
- Comalapa border
- Chicomosuelo
- Wood marzipan
- Bejucal de Ocampo
- Future
- motorcycle
There is at least 13 blockades on various roads entering and leaving Chiapassome of them are located in:
- 2 from Huixtla to Motozintla, one of them on federal highway 201 towards El Framboyán
- 1 in Belisario Dominguez
- 1 between Horizonte and Guadalupe
- Mazapa Bridge
- Bejucal Junction
- San Nicolas Mountains
Los Roadblocks in the 7 municipalities of Chiapas are added to those previously carried out on the roads of Monte Cristo de Guerrero, Siltepec, Captain Luis A. Vidal and Jaltenango, to prevent the passage of the Army.
Violence in Chiapas: kidnappings, clashes and executions add to today’s blockades
Isaín Mandujano also shared today, Saturday, July 20, that in Sonora a confrontation in the municipality of Amatenango de la Frontera, in Sonora and Escobilla at the height of Nuevo Amatenango, in Chiapas.
As well as a second confrontation on the road from Chicomusuelo to November 20, for the common lands of Jolenton and Nueva Piedra Labrada in Chiapasto which the following were not presented authorities have not done anything to intervene in the threats.
Although it is unknown whether these clashes left any dead, it is not the only one violent incident in Chiapas In recent days, just on July 16, in Jaltenango, residents reported that several people were ““raised” by organized crime.
These complaints were made through social networks, pointing to an armed commando that kidnapped several men in different areas of Chiapasboth in Jaltenango as Montecristo of Guerrero“kidnappings” that reportedly left 2 dead.
The fear that residents report for their lives and their families in the face of the Forced recruitment into organized crimehas caused ghost towns in Chiapasdepopulating entire municipalities.
2024-07-21 07:39:07