Tzotzil indigenous people kidnapped and dressed in women’s clothing the mayor by customs and traditions of the municipality of Aldama, Alonso Pérez Sántiz, who was abducted on Thursday in San Cristóbal. They are demanding 1.5 million pesos for his release.
This is not the first case, as the current governor-elect of Chiapas for Morena, Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar, was also kidnapped and dressed as a woman in 2016 by Tzotzil indigenous people from Chenalhó.
Pérez Sántiz was dressed as a woman and tied up on the basketball court, where he was forced to record a video asking the authorities to bring the 1.5 million pesos demanded by his captors for his release.
“I just want to ask if the corporations can come to deliver the payment,” he pleads.
Wearing the typical attire of Tzotzil women, Pérez Sántiz says that elements of the National Guard, Army, and State Police can come to the Chayomté community, municipality of Aldama, to deliver the money.
“Bring the corresponding resource, that’s all, and we will all be happy, that’s what the people say.”
So far, no political group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of Mayor Pérez Sántiz, but it has been unofficially reported that his captors are from Chayomté, led by agent Domingo Morales Patishtán.
Additionally, the Tzotzils have reported that the elected mayor of Aldama, Lucio Manuel López Pérez, is involved in the kidnapping to demand the completion of a social benefit project, but the condition is that the 1.5 million pesos be delivered to the residents in cash.
Sources close to the kidnapped mayor have revealed that he has been beaten by his captors.
In the video, Pérez Sántiz assures that he is being held on the basketball court, pleading for support for his release.
“Please seek decisions, seek strategies, reasons, because the truth, gentlemen, they are not asking for too much, as I mentioned just now.”
“I am human, and I would like to (…) but as they have me here, I can’t do anything. But please, I also need your participation up there (in the state government),” he pleads.
Pérez Sántiz was kidnapped by a commando in a plaza in San Cristóbal de las Casas last Thursday afternoon.
The Day Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar, Governor-elect of Chiapas, Was Kidnapped and Dressed as a Woman
This is not the only case; it should be remembered that on May 24, 2016, around 100 Tzotzil indigenous people from the municipality of Chenalhó violently stormed the Diocesan Curia of San Cristóbal de Las Casas and, with blows and shoves, took the then president of the State Congress, Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar (now governor-elect of Chiapas), aboard stake trucks.
Along with him, they also took the then coordinator of the PVEM parliamentary faction, Carlos Arturo Penagos Vargas, who had attended a dialogue and negotiation table with that discontented group.
The events occurred in the afternoon in the center of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, when the local deputies were in an annex of the Cathedral presided over by Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel.
The reason for the abduction on that occasion was that leaders dissatisfied with Mayor Rosa Pérez Pérez, who was elected from the PVEM candidacy that year, demanded her removal.
It was said that Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar was the most beaten, with bloodstains seen on his shirt.
In a video, it was seen when the indigenous people pushed Penagos Vargas into a Nissan truck.
“Ramírez Aguilar was transferred to another similar pickup truck with side rails. Behind, a municipal civil protection patrol from Chenalhó escorted the vehicles carrying the detainees, who were taken to the central plaza of that municipality, about 40 kilometers from San Cristóbal de Las Casas.
Earlier, on April 26 of the same year 2016, these same indigenous people from Chenalhó were violently evicted by state and municipal police forces from the doors of the State Congress, where for several hours they had detained several local deputies, workers, and people who had come to make their representations to some legislators.”
Source: Diario de Yucatan
