A group of people from Las Rosas, Chiapas, destroyed the town’s basic community hospital, burned an ambulance, smashed glass and doors, took some of the furniture and assaulted workers.
Some inhabitants of the municipality were dissatisfied to learn that Civil Protection and the Ministry of Health would perform fumigation work in the neighborhoods and because a man died allegedly of COVID-19, so doctors asked the family not to guard the body and proceed to rump it immediately.
According to the newspaper El Imparcial, this annoyed the family and it was then that he asked for support from locals, who walked the streets with sticks and rods, and then concentrated in the central square.
Then the villagers entered the municipal presidency to cause destruction.
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They then headed to the clinic of the Ministry of Health that operates in the municipal headquarters, where they entered and caused destruction, without municipal and state police officers being able to intervene, as they were outnumbered.
In the municipality of Las Rosas, #Chiapas, this morning inhabitants caused destruction in the Community Hospital and houses of officials, in addition they burned an ambulance, as they accuse the authorities when fumigating against dengue spread the COVID-19 virus. pic.twitter.com/aXnVlzODKM
— Irma R. Lara (@Rocio_Lara89) June 11, 2020
The municipal authorities failed to do vandalism and incitement to violence.
“The relevant authorities have been instructed to clarify this situation and under the Zero Impunity policy will proceed against the intellectual and material perpetrators of these criminal acts that they have carried out against the heritage of the municipality, themselves who have colluded with alleged means of communication using false and wilful information to incite them to commission such acts,” he said in a statement.
The annoyance and fear of the villagers grew due to false information circulating in Whatsapp and Facebook groups, which warned that the state spraying campaign was to spread the COVID-19 virus and “pretended to make people sick.”
Prior to Villa Las Rosas, other munipaios in Chiapas have organized settlers to prevent the annual campaign of fumigation against the mosquito that causes dengue, Zika and chinkunguya, as in Venustiano Carranza, Totolapa, Simojovel and others.
Most of those who have protested against this campaign say that it is with these fumigations that the government wants to kill them or that it intends to infect them with the COVID-19 virus.
They beat and hold IMSS director
In the Guadalupe Tepeyac community, in the municipality of Las Margaritas, Chiapas, a group of people beat and held the director of the IMSS clinic,
“This action they are taking is because on Sunday a relative of a Zapatista person died indicating that he died from COVID-19, so they now blame the medical staff for that death, and now threaten to burn down the hospital,” says the report sent to the General Secretariat of Government, headed by Ismael Brito Mazariegos, according to Chiapas Paralelo.
After being beaten, the doctor was released five hours later following a dialogue between the unconformed and staff of the Prosecutor’s Office.
With information from Chiapas Paralelo and the Imparcial
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