“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
Video translation is as follows:
Good afternoon Mr. President. We are state police from the state of Tabasco. We want to let you know that the secretary named Brigadier General Víctor Hugo Chávez Martínez and the commissioner Colonel Alfredo Gutiérrez Rosado are claiming that by order of the governor and you, Mr. President, we have to disappear everyone they say.
The state has to be cleaned by higher orders. They have taken us to different family homes and we have found nothing. And yet they order us to detain them and afterwards plant drugs and weapons on them. And the commissioner, in collaboration with the agency and directors, says that this is an order. We have even had to take detainees and place them at the disposal of the agency, which sometimes doesn’t even know what they did.
Likewise, they have referred to us the elements that will kill those who speak out. And we have already had police elements who have killed them when they were on their off days. We don’t want this to continue happening. In the same way, they order us to cover the numbers of the patrol cars and that we remove the license plates from them for the supposed operations which are illegal. All this on the account that there isn’t even an official search warrant from the prosecutor’s office.
We no longer want to work with the secretary. And the commissioner regularly takes us to meet with armed people who don’t hold any authority. Afterwards, we go where they tell us and where we go it’s only to harm the people. This is an area that was once at peace. They’ve told us that whoever has to fall will fall. And that this is an order from above.
But we know, Mr. President, that you didn’t give that order. They’re committing these crimes and we have collected proof of who all is involved in this. The missing haven’t appeared amd their relatives are looking for them. We hope that our call reaches the ears of the President. We’ve had enough of all this corruption. Because protecting citizens is our duty.
Brigadier General Víctor Hugo Chávez Martínez
Coronel Alfredo Gutiérrez Rosado
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador aka AMLO
