The crisis of insecurity, violence, and ungovernability on Mexico’s southern border has not stopped and is increasing, making the situation critical, the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center denounced this Wednesday.
“Today we are seeing that those who are joining the government are leaders of organized crime; now (apparently) they are government officials, and that is an extremely critical situation,” said Pedro Faro, a member of Frayba, during the presentation of the report “Chiapas, in the spiral of armed and criminal violence.”
Faro warned that the Mexican state has implemented strategies that favor clientelism and the use of the media to generate dissimulation among the population.
“We see resources (money) being spent here, so we say and maintain that we are witnessing a society of spectacle, a constructed (simulated) society, and of course, several communities are being deceived,” he added.
During the report, the NGO members accused some officials of the current Mexican government, headed by President Claudia Sheinbaum, and the Chiapas state government, led by Governor Eduardo Ramírez of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, of apparently making pacts with organized crime.
He also criticized the weakening of human rights institutions worldwide and cited the Palestinian genocide and the lack of action by international organizations in that conflict as an example.
Given this situation, Faro reaffirmed the commitment of the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Center to community resistance and building conditions for peace from the grassroots.
For his part, Carlos Ogaz, a Frayba specialist in systematization and advocacy, emphasized that the current militarization strategy in the state of Chiapas does not guarantee peace.
“There will be no peace until armed groups linked to organized crime and power circles are dismantled, prosecuted, and disarmed,” he stated.
He also said that there can be no coherence without justice, given that more than 300 security agents, along with some commanders and municipal presidents, are being investigated for their alleged involvement in massacres.
The specialists concluded that the apparent stability in Chiapas is fragile and could be shattered at any moment, reactivating cycles of violence in Mexico’s southern border territories.
For several years, Chiapas has suffered an escalation of violence and insecurity due to disputes between drug trafficking groups in the region.
According to organizations and activists, the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation Cartels, as well as the self-proclaimed Chiapas and Guatemala Cartel, are prominent on the border with Guatemala, fighting over territory for crimes such as drug trafficking, human trafficking, and extortion.
Source: quepasamedia
