translated from Spanish: Government forced us to rent houses and has not paid: displaced

“They made us leave the stand in front of the National Palace in the CDMX, then they put us as a condition to leave the auditorium of the Municipal Palace of Chichihualco, where we were refugees, and rent houses, that because they needed to have the leasing contracts. We had to get to pay the deposits and the first month of rent, and now it turns out that the money they promised us for the rents does not arrive, says Cresencio Pacheco, displaced from the community of airfield, in the municipality of Leonardo Bravo, in the Sierra de Guerrero.
Displaced by catastrophes and poverty in Guerrero are evicted with machines
The displaced people accuse that they have not been given the agreement for food. “We were told that we would be given 4000 pesos a month per family,” says Pacheco, “but they have not deposited it. We have not been satisfied with the establishment of a security perimeter, with three points of vigilance to the Sierra and to Chilpancingo, in case the armed group that displaced us would like to attack. ”
After being 39 days outside the National Palace waiting for president Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador to give them a hearing to raise their demands to retreat to the organized crime group that took them, since November 11, their Communities, the displaced signed an agreement, on March 27, with Alejandro Encinas, under-Secretary for Human rights, population and migration of the Ministry of the Interior (SEGOB).
The agreement signed included giving them support for housing and food for up to three months, with the commitment to extend the period if necessary, while the actions were deployed so that they could return to their communities. The sub-secretary of Holm Oaks also pledged to request the security perimeter of the Secretary of Citizen security.
The first condition for this agreement was to raise the plant in the CDMX and return to the auditorium of Chichihualco, at the municipal head of Leonardo Bravo, where they had been refugees until before their trip to the capital. The displaced gathered their things and returned there the next day.  
“Then we were told that in order for them to proceed with the payment, we had to rent the houses and present the leasing contracts. We all did. Rode getting to pay the deposits and the first month of rent. And now it turns out that we have not sent the money, several families already have to pay the second month and they want to evict, “Pacheco accuses.
Manuel Olivares, director of the Center for Human Rights José Maria Morelos and Pavón (Centro Morelos), who accompanies the displaced, says the authorities have told them that they have not deposited because there are problems with the bank accounts of some.
“We were given a list these days that according to there are problems with seven accounts, which are no longer active. They are in total 83 families that have to make the deposit, and it turns out that they do not because there are seven problems and want to do it all together. It seems to us a pretext, “says the activist.
Alone, sick and without money
“We don’t know what we’re going to do. We were promised that by the 15th of May there was a deposit. As they were going to do between 10 and 15 May, that promised us the representative who named the federal government, Naphtali Granados, when he came a month ago to see us, and nothing they deposit. To me the income of the second month and I expire on 17 and I have to pay it, “says Marisela, another of the displaced, she from the community of Los Morros.
They lost everything, and now they expect the government to comply: so the displaced of Guerrero live
The lady says they’re desperate. “Here at the municipal head where we have had to rent the houses there is no work. My husband went to help a gentleman and gave him 80 pesos all day. There in our community that was paid in 200 pesos per day, here look what they pay and that when there is work. ”
There are those who are still in a worse position. On Sunday, May 12, Mrs. Virginia died, another of the displaced. 10 days before he was fine and suddenly he got sick. He started with a fever and after three days he ended up in the hospital. He was diagnosed with hepatitis B, swollen appendix, and renal failure. He didn’t come out anymore. Her family could not even take her to bury her community because the armed group is still there.
“They had to bury her in the village where her sister lives. The family stayed there for the rosaries. And now the owner of the house that rented his daughter and wants to evict, who is going to get his things to the street on Friday because his income has expired and does not pay, “says Marisela.
Virginia’s classmates say the lady got sick from riding the plant in the capital when they went to demand the federal government to support them. “We are not sure that anything in the capital has harmed him, but there are several that we are sick, a partner has an infection in the nose, he is already in the hospital too. I’ve had a bad throat since we got back from there. They already asked me for a pharyngeal exudate to see what I have, but I could not do it, and so we walk almost all, “says Marisela.
The woman says that in Mexico City they were in conditions that affected them safely. “We were there on the ground, next to a huge, long strainer, covering the whole area where we put the tents. It smelled bad. And then so much pollution that is there, we are not accustomed, nor to the food they eat. ”
Now they accuse the federal government of leaving them alone. “We went there, we had a lot of hardship, and then we believed all their promises and for what, they didn’t fulfill anything.”
In an interview with the political Animal about why the displaced have not been fulfilled the points that were established in the agreement with above, Naphtali Granados, whom the SEGOB named as liaison with those affected, said that the security perimeter is something that It is the responsibility of the Ministry of Public Security not to them. “We just said that we solicitaríamos it and we did, and if we are doing actions, there are tours on the part of the Federal police.”
On the rents, said that they never asked the displaced to rent the houses, before the money came for rent, or leases. “We can’t ask for that if we haven’t made the transfers.” He also said that the deposits are in process.
“You’re working on that. If all goes well at the end of the week that comes in will remain. We have not committed with them to give them the money on a date, because everything is in process, not that there is a neglect, in Mexico there was no legislation or structure to serve the displaced, previous governments denied that this existed, So we are in the process of meeting the points of the agreement. ”
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Original source in Spanish