Tuxtla GutiΓ©rrez, Chiapas.- The report of a non-governmental organization (ONG) reveals that it increased 458% the disappearance of people in Chiapasduring the government of Rutilio Escandon Chains of Morena in the period from 2019 to 2024by guerra between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel in the dispute over territory for drug trafficking, among other illegal activities.
And according to the report Touch the Void of the Fray BartolomΓ© de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) the disappearance of people in Chiapas, in the southeast of Mexico, suffered an exponential increase in the period 2019-2024 due to criminal violence.
On Thursday, April 22, when the report was presented, the activist Mario GΓ³mez, Frayba researcherindicated that at update figures in 2023 A total of 312 cases were registered and taking the years from 2019 to 2023 the increase was 458%, only taking official figures of the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons.β
βIn 2019, a total of 68 missing people were registered, by 2022 the figure was 244 missing and it has been increasing year following year.β
With Morena, the disappearance of people in Chiapas increased by 458%; war between CJNG and Sinaloa
According to the researcher, βthis increase is derived from a heated dispute over territorial and social control by organized crime,β since according to daily records published in the media, there is a war between the CJNG and the Sinaloa Cartel which leaves citizens unprotected, given the ineffectiveness of the authorities.
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The result of the 81-page report shows that this alarming number of missing people in Chiapas coincides with the management of the government of Rutilio EscandΓ³n of the party Morena in the period from 2019-2024.
The study was presented by independent civil organizations, including Mesoamerican Voices, Frayba, Serapaz y Melelxojobalwho have formed the working group once morest disappearances in Chiapas.
The Government lacks will to resolve: the authority hides it
The document also detailed the lack of political will to address the problem from its causes and accused the authorities of making invisible the phenomenon and hide it and minimize it.
According to the Frayba registry from 2022 to 2023, the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Chiapas (FGE) record 201 investigation folders for missing persons by individuals, of which 165 were in process, 22 did not pursue criminal action.
Sandybel Reyesresearcher and activist of the organization Voces Mesoamericanas, which registers and accompanies the search for relatives of migrants from Chiapas, expressed that the immigration policies of both Mexico, Central American countries and the United States lead to people being criminalized in their transit to the United States. US
βWe can see that these policies are from a security approach and not from a human rights approach, which leads to people being singled out and criminalized in their transit and made invisible by their country, is the case of Chiapas,β he added.
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For its part, the organization Melelxojobalwho works for the rights of children and adolescents, framed his concern regarding the rise in cases of disappearance of childhoodsbecause there is a 40% unsolved cases.
βFrom January to March 2024, 111 cases of children disappeared in Chiapas, of the total reported cases, 40% have not been located, the 22% correspond to girls and female adolescentsβ.
Oscar GonzΓ‘lez, activist
NGOs also expressed concern regarding the increase in missing indigenous people.
Violence has worsened in Chiapas due to outbreak of political-social conflicts of the indigenous communities and where, in addition, organized crime has begun to enter this area of ββthe Chiapas Heights.
The state of Chiapas suffers a growing wave of violence following In the region, disputes between drug trafficking cartels have grown with the CJNG and Sinaloato control Mexico’s border with Central America.
This has resulted in homicides, disappearances and forced displacement of communities, particularly indigenous people.
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2024-04-16 22:02:50
