The 11 chapels of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas held the former president of the Board of Directors of the Congress of Chiapas, former deputy Sonia Álvarez, responsible for the ungovernability and violence that has worsened in the communities of Chenalhó and Pantelhó.
In a statement, the parishes of the Tzotzil region assured that their complaints have not been heard despite the fact that they have continually revealed the climate of insecurity and aggression to which the people of Chiapas are exposed, who have been caught in the middle of several confrontations.
“The current context where blood runs through the communities of Pantelhó and those bordering Chenalhó, women and children suffer from the fear of the detonation of weapons, bombs and stray bullets,” they point out.
The parishes of the Diocese of San Cristobal affirmed that “the state government represented by deputy Sonia Catalina Álvarez. Cecilia López S. and Leonel Reyes politically violated the election process” for the renewal of the municipal council, thereby contributing to the atmosphere of ungovernability.
“They ignored the proposal presented by the majority of the communities in the municipality, and the consequences that this entailed in terms of
confrontations, more poverty, burned houses, fear, displacement, injuries, deaths. “Demonstrating, once again, the responsibility of the state in the crisis of violence that Pantelhó is currently experiencing,” they said.
They assured that despite being ignored, they maintain the “hope of emerging from the darkness of violence, with the light that shows us the path of truth and justice to reach peace.”
In light of this, they demanded “the disarmament of the groups, attention to the displaced and security in the region, because in practice, they insist on convincing us that, for you, governing is synonymous with managing conflicts.”
The situation of insecurity and aggression that currently persists in Chiapas has caused the displacement of hundreds of indigenous Tzotzils who have reported that their relatives were victims of forced disappearances, dispossession of their lands, threats, invasion of their homes to be forced to work, lack of food, in addition to sexual abuse against young people.
The aggressions have not only been against indigenous communities, priests have also been
These people have been victims of attacks, such as the one that occurred on October 20, when two men on a motorcycle murdered the priest Marcelo Pérez after finishing a mass in San Cristobal de las Casas.
After the murder, parishioners of the parishes where he officiated masses expressed their sadness on social networks and stressed that he was a “defender of the people” for having been “the voice of many injustices” in the region.
In a more recent act committed by a criminal group, on December 3, the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas reported that a violent group called “Los Herreras” entered the municipality of Pantelhó shooting and burning houses in the communities of “San Francisco” and “El Roblar” and “San José Tercero”.
This caused the group of “El Machete” to enter the municipality and take the municipal seat of Pantelhó in response to the opposing group.
Source: latinus.us
