Photo: Cuarto Poder
On the morning of Monday, December 4th, accompanied by the Mexican Army, the National Guard and the state police, approximately 225 people who had been displaced by the violence unleashed at the end of November in the municipality of Maravilla Tenejapa returned.
The municipal president who was disappeared by an armed group on November 25th, appeared and coordinated the return of the families to their homes. Zoel Lopez Gutierrez mentioned that there are still hundreds of displaced people in nearby municipalities and communities and they fear returning.
Violence in the area has increased in recent weeks due to the presence of a criminal group called “Los Colombianos”; there are riots, disappearances, assaults, burning of vehicles and murders in the vicinity of the highway, the municipal center and the communities.
Antonio Santiz Gomez, president of the Ejidal Commissariat of Maravilla Tenejapa who openly opposed the aforementioned criminal group, remains missing since November 27th when he left Maravilla Tenejapa for Comitan where he was summoned for a meeting with state government officials.
For more information in Spanish:
Regresan desplazados de Maravilla Tenejapa, Chiapas; comisario ejidal sigue desaparecido (Educa Oaxaca 5 de diciembre de 2023)
Retornan a sus hogares desplazados de Tenejapa (Cuarto Poder 5 de diciembre de 2023)
Reaparece presidente municipal de Maravilla Tenejapa y coordina el retorno de desplazados (Proceso 5 de diciembre de 2023)
For more information from SIPAZ:
National: New Head of National Search Commission Appointed. Lack of Transparency in Process Denounced (October 25, 2023)
Nacional/Internacional: Comité de la ONU externa preocupaciones por censo de desaparecidos e impunidad. (September 17, 2023)
Guerrero: International Day of Forced Disappearance, ”The Disappeard Are Missing for All of Us” – Tlachinollan (September 7, 2023)
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