One month after taking office, the mayors of Cuajinicuilapa and San Nicolás, on the Costa Chica of Guerrero, fled their municipalities after receiving threats, confirmed the state leader of the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), Alejandro Carabias Icaza.
The mayor of Cuajinicuilapa, Hedilberto Salinas Mariche, and the mayor of San Nicolás, Tarsila Molina Guzmán, were nominated by the PVEM in the last election on June 2.
This Wednesday it was revealed that the first mayor, Hedilberto Salinas, and the Cuajinicuilapa mayor, Esthepani Oliva Zárate, requested an indefinite leave from the position to the Congress of Guerrero, but did not mention the reasons for the request.
The leader of that party and local deputy, Alejandro Carabias, confirmed that the first municipal authorities did present the request for leave, although he said that he has not seen the document nor has the Board of Directors of the Legislature communicated it.
“What I do know is that (mayors Hedilberto Salinas and Tarsila Molina) are no longer in their municipalities.”
He revealed that the municipal presidents have received threats publicly and privately.
And although the authorities requested security measures from the state government, they did not receive them, he said.
On October 20, Carabias Icaza had warned in an interview that the situation was very difficult to govern in those two municipalities of the Costa Chica.
That day he revealed that he had no communication with the municipal treasurer of the Cuajinicuilapa City Council, Roberto Avelino, and that he was aware that he had already left the municipality.
On Sunday, October 13, armed men set fire to the house and a vehicle of the municipal official. After this event, the treasurer left Cuajinicuilapa.
On Friday, October 18, the version spread that the mayor of Cuajinicuilapa had died after an attack. The state Public Security Secretariat denied the version of his death, although it was revealed that the mayor did suffer an attack, but that his escort repelled the aggression.
The governments of the municipalities of the Costa Chica have been controlled in recent decades by groups and families of caciques.
In both municipalities, homicides with extreme violence have been registered in recent months and banners with accusations and threats between criminal groups have appeared.
The violence has caused anxiety in both populations that previously formed a single municipality and the suspension of classes that the state government has refused to recognize.
During the government of Evelyn Salgado, the mayors Conrado Mendoza Almeda, of San Miguel Totolapan, and his father Juan Mendoza, former municipal president, as well as the captain of the Navy, Salvador Villalva Flores, who was elected as president of Copala, have been murdered.
Also, Acacio Flores Guerrero, of Malinaltepec and Alejandro Arcos Catalán, of Chilpancingo.
Source: proceso
