Six days after an armed group shot dead seven people in El Durazno, municipality of Coyuca de Catalán, at least 50 people from this community moved to other parts of Guerrero for security reasons.
The exodus of families from this town occurred in the last 24 hours although since last Sunday an operation was launched with federal and state security forces to protect the inhabitants and arrest those responsible.
“They left everything, their houses, their plots,” said El Durazno Commissioner Azucena Rosas García.
After the massacre of six adults and an 11-year-old minor, the inhabitants of this town nestled in the Sierra received the visit of various officials and commanders of security corporations.
Since this Sunday, December 11, after more than 24 hours of the massacre, the head of the Ministry of Public Security, Evelio Méndez Gómez, arrived with a contingent of sailors, National Guard, Army and State Police.
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In addition, on Monday 12, the State Attorney General, Sandra Luz Valdovinos Salmerón, visited the residents and promised them that justice will be done in the case of the seven murders and brought an agent of the Public Ministry of the Common Law so that the relatives of the victims could file their complaints.
“Here the soldiers, the state police and the National Guard are still but they are only walking the streets of the town and they do not go to the mountains to arrest the criminals who are hiding there ready to enter and only wait for the security forces to leave,” said the commissioner.
El Durazno is a town where the only livelihood of the families is agriculture with the planting of corn, beans, pumpkin and chili, but they also have avocado orchards.
“People have to go to their plots to plant and they remain in their homes because they have no guarantee of returning alive,” he said.
Another problem faced by the inhabitants of El Durazno is that the suppliers of various products do not go to the town to supply the stores and will not do so while there are no security guarantees.
If this situation continues, it is most likely that elementary and preschool children will not return to school in January after their end of year vacation.
“The primary school (Ignacio Zaragoza) where the armed group summoned people to kill them is shot and has to be renovated,” the commissioner said.
This Thursday the residents received the visit of an official of the state DIF sent by the president of this organization, Liz Salgado Pineda, sister of Governor Evelyn Salgado.
Salgado Pineda’s envoy delivered 200 pantries.
“Those pantries are enough for two or three days, it is a mockery that the government makes of us; What we want is for justice to be done to us and for the criminals who are hiding near the town to arrest them.”
He mentioned that the official of the state DIF arrived accompanied by the director of Human Rights of the General Secretariat of Government, Miguel Flores Morales.
“We thought that the human rights minister would stay here in the town to collect our complaints, but he left quickly with the DIF official, because you can see that they were very afraid to be here,” said the commissioner.
One of the social programs launched by the federal government since 2018 was Sembrando Vida, but here in El Durazno no peasant has yet benefited.
In 2019, one hundred farmers enrolled in this program but their no one appeared on the lists of beneficiaries.
“The federal government hasn’t supported us in anything, it’s not even with scholarships for children who go to school.”
People, he said, do not care much that they have been excluded from the social programs of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador because they are more interested in having tranquility.
Fear
Rosas García acknowledged that she is afraid that he will pass it on to her and her family because of the denunciations he has made publicly about the situation of insecurity that exists in his town.
“The truth is that I am afraid that they will kill me because those bad people already have me located, but despite that I will continue to stand up for my people because that’s what they elected me for,” he said.
Six days after the murder of the six adults and an 11-year-old minor, the police forces only secured two vans with the acronym of the FM (Familia Michoacana) in which the armed group is allegedly mobilized, in addition to useful cartridges.
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