translated from Spanish: Picture of Indians moving, with false information

“this migration because they do not support it, it is our people, Tarahumara flee cold and lack of food, comes out in the news?”, is read in the publication n of Facebook from a user asking to stop supporting Central American migrants. The publication has been shared 571 thousand times since November 2018.
However, people of the photo’s publication non-Tarahumara and not flee from the cold or hunger. It’s indigenous families who returned to Chalchihuitán, Chiapas, on January 3, after being displaced by the violence of the territorial conflict with the municipality of Chenalhó and take refuge in the surrounding mountainous areas. The original photograph is of Jacob García, from Cuartoscuro .
On January 2, the municipality of fallow issued a release where it said 5 thousand people to return to their land by the need to deal with their lands and cultivating their crops, while security conditions do not yet exist.
The armed conflict between the two communities exists since 45 years ago, then the agrarian reform of 1973 modified historical boundaries that divide them. In December 2017, the unitary agrarian Tribunal of Chiapas ruled that the territory would be returned to Chenalho.
According to the United Nations, the conflict has caused the displacement of at least 5 thousand Indians from fallow.

Original source in Spanish

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