Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of Mexico, denied that there is an exodus of Mexicans to Guatemala, derived from the violence between criminal groups in Chiapas.
In the morning conference at the National Palace, López Obrador attacked his adversaries and non-governmental organizations “for making a scandal,” who have denounced the violence in that area of the southern border.
“That thing about Chiapas, our adversaries and the pseudo-independent or pseudo-non-governmental organizations or the so-called civil society or pseudo-human rights defenders, are making a scandal, but of course, there are times when I don’t deal with these things here because people are busy with something else and when I deal with it here, what I do is that I give them propaganda myself,” he said.
But there they are saying that ‘there is an exodus of Mexicans to Guatemala’, nothing of the sort, there is a confrontation between two groups, and it is already being addressed,” he stressed.
“This has led some communities to move to Guatemala but they are on the border, because they live on the border on the Mexican side and they go over to the Guatemalan side, but there are 200 or 300 families, however, in the media: ‘exodus’, so clarify that,” she said.
Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena acknowledged last week that hundreds of Mexicans who fled to Guatemala are afraid to return because of the dispute between drug trafficking gangs and the recruitment of young people in organized crime.
“It is much more peaceful now and people are already starting to return, but they are afraid of criminal groups,” said the Secretary of Foreign Relations (SRE) at the morning press conference of the Government.
The official reported that the exodus began on July 23 with a group of 400 Mexicans who left the municipality of Amatenango, in the state of Chiapas, until they reached the municipality of Cuilco, in Guatemala, “and there they took shelter.”
The three Mexican consuls in Guatemala have discovered that “the majority of the population is dedicated to planting corn and sells their product in the municipality of Comalapa,” in Chiapas, from where “they cross because of the constant clashes that there are between, apparently, two criminal gangs.”
“Above all, what most worried these families is that they have begun to recruit young people, especially men, and therefore, that is why they have crossed,” said the foreign minister.
Source: lopezdoriga
