“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
On September 6, an official letter was sent to President López Obrador requesting his intervention.
Sinaloa Cartel assassins, who claimed to be from the group led by ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, are besieging indigenous people from the Lacandona region, located in Ocosingo, on the border between Chiapas and Guatemala, according to the locals themselves.
Through letters and mass protests, the inhabitants, especially in communities such as Nueva Palestina, Lacanjá Chanyasab and Frontera Corozal, have denounced in recent weeks that extortion, threats and drug trafficking are carried out under the cover of state police, federal and even ministerial elements.
As a result, on September 7, thousands of residents, including farmers, children, women, small merchants and residents in general, marched to the central plaza of Ocosingo with banners and shouts against the threats.
“We are marching and demanding our rights to life, tranquility and peace,” they demanded.
“We want the immediate presence of security in Nueva Palestina, the Mexican Army, the Navy and the National Guard. We want peace”, “the Sinaloa Cartel out, organized crime out, yes to the Army”.
That same day, in the letter “Lacandon Community under threat from the Sinaloa Cartel,” addressed to President López Obrador, it was reported that the hitmen have their base at the crossroads of the town of San Javier, 7 kilometers from Nueva Palestina, and a few meters from where the state police have their booth with elements.
“In the last three years, the territory of the Lacandon Community (Chiapas) has been literally invaded by organized crime, which, with impunity, has been increasingly taking control of the jungle, opening clandestine airstrips for the transfer of cocaine, controlling the trafficking of undocumented migrants, and charging small businessmen the right to pay for their services, charging small merchants and quotas to tourist service providers, carrying out forced evictions of hundreds of families, disappearing people and committing femicides”, says the document signed by Chankín Kimbor Chambor 1, who calls himself the leader of the Communal Property of the region.
The letter states that on September 6 a letter was sent to President López Obrador requesting his intervention, and also that the day before an armed criminal cell of hired killers broke into the office of the police station to attack members of the rural police.
“It is urgent to immediately safeguard the integrity and lives of these four families, of the people of the sub-community of Nuevo Palestina, that organized crime be expelled from Lacandon territory, and that the federal government of President AMLO, apply the rule of law with full rigor on these unpunished criminals and on the elements of public security and armed forces that cover up and allow this”.
Chankín Kimbor Chambor 1 added in interviews to local media that the pacts of authorities with criminals are known, but no one has heeded their calls after the worsening wave of violence in a territory that is used for the crossing of drugs and also human trafficking, especially of migrants.
