Dressed as a woman and tied around the neck, the mayor of Aldama, Chiapas, Alfonso Pérez Santiz, asked state authorities to bring the sum of 1.5 million pesos for the construction of a project in the municipality, after he was detained by residents on September 26.
On Thursday, Pérez Santiz was reported missing when he was traveling through San Cristóbal de las Casas. Local media reported that armed men intercepted him and took him to an unknown location.
However, two days later, the residents of the Chayomté ejido exhibited the mayor on a basketball court tied up and dressed as a woman, and then gave him the floor and had him address the people surrounding him.
“I would like this to happen, I have the will, but since they have me here I can’t do anything. Please, I need the participation of those up there,” he said in a video that began to circulate on social networks.
The mayor asked the state authorities to help him with the payment that the residents are asking for and assured that whoever is going to deliver the money will be respected by the people, “that they bring the corresponding resources and we will all be happy,” he said.
In the video he reiterates several times that he needs the support of the authorities and regrets that “for now” it will stay that way.
After the disappearance of Pérez Santiz, the local media reported that his “kidnapped people” had requested one million pesos, but after not getting a response they increased the amount to 1.5 million pesos.
At the end of the video, the mayor assures that the residents of Chayomté are not asking for more money, however, it is possible to hear that after asking them, the inhabitants begin to whistle and shout that “for now not.”
So far, neither Rutilio Escandón Cadenas, governor of Chiapas, nor the General Secretariat of Government, have spoken out on the matter.
Source: latinus.us
