translated from Spanish: FNLS accuses authorities of using Covid-19 pandemic to violate citizens’ rights

Michoacan.- We are concerned about the Covid-19 pandemic, however there is a repressive escalation, the authorities do not respect the contingency, there are more dangerous things than Covid-19, the violation of economic rights, social, as dangerous is covid-19 as the fascist attitude of governments,” said the state spokesman of the National Front for Struggle for Socialism (FNLS), Gerardo Rodríguez González.
At a press conference, where he announced a national day of protest from 25 to 31 May for the live presentation of missing detainees and the release of political prisoners, detailed that the government of Morena in Chiapas holds as political hostages of state four of its fellow prisoners members of the FNLS: Javier González Díaz, Armando Hernández Sánchez, Venturino Torres Escobar and Asunción Gómez Sánchez “defenders of their ejidal and communal lands also politicians for socialism arrested arbitrarily violating their rights and constitutionals convicted by the regime without committing any crime, our colleagues have been in prison for more than 10 months of unjust imprisonment who have been continually subjected to inhuman and degrading cruel treatment in Chiapas prisons.”

He also referred that with “an indifference that acquires inhumane profiles”, the Federal Government does not respond to the complaint complaint and demand for the presentation alive of the revolutionaries Edmundo Reyes Amaya and Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sánchez detained disappeared since May 25, 2007 in the city of Oaxaca equally assumed the demand for the presentation to live the 43 normalist students of Ayotzinapa and the hundreds of thousands of cases of enforced disappearance in the country in Michoacán, he said, 5 years to date there are up to 1500 detainees missing.
The representative of the FNLS in the entity considered that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is not informed of the situation, so various protest activities will be carried out in the states of Chiapas, Oaxaca, Michoacán, Veracruz, Hidalgo, Puebla, Jalisco, among others.
“It is not possible to maintain indifference and insensitivity to the repressive and authoritarian policies and proposals of the Federal and State Government that with police corporations keep in the submission to the people in this regard we speak out against the intervention of the army in labors that flagrantly violate human rights with the decree that empowers them or legitimate to commit arbitrariness in addition to the covid-19 pandemic having been abusing the rights of citizens” Expressed.

Original source in Spanish