Disappearances in Mexico: the new fake census of the disappeared by López Obrador
AMLO does not trust the Comisión Nacional de Búsqueda de Personas, the research commission for the disappeared. That’s why he’s asked his Welfare Secretariat to conduct its own census of missing people in Mexico, and why he goes on to say there will be “good news.” At the moment the only news is from four days ago Karla Quintana, who headed the Comisión Nacional de Búsqueda de Personas, has resigned. For victims’ families and civil organizations, AMLO’s new registry of the disappeared manipulates reality for voting purposes only. According to AMLO, 43,463 people disappeared during his tenure (four and a half years), but the relatives of the disappeared assert that the number does not correspond to reality and that there are many more. For the record, Karla Quintana had infuriated AMLO for revealing the discovery of a new Narcos death camp in Nuevo Laredo.
So, in the private meeting Lopez Obrador On May 23, he had said with the 22 governors of Morena and their allies that he “does not trust” the national commissioner Karla Quintana and ordered them to support that it is the Ministry of Social Affairs that “manages the numbers” and in doing so who resorted to “servants of the nation”. The President’s decision raised concern among groups close to the disappeared. They fear that AMLO’s order to conduct a “census” means cutting off the legs of the research groups and organizations that are part of the National Recruitment System.
Christian Zurita, the former candidate who replaced the assassinated Fernando Villavicencio, is leaving Ecuador to avoid ending up like his friend
“The dangers to my life are enormous, very high, I don’t want to live like this and I don’t want my family to face the tragedy while they have to live in a security capsule with vests and helmets.” I go into public spaces. My life has always been free, I could always look up and be proud of what I’ve done. I think I’ve done my best to fulfill my duty, my loyalty to my brother (Fernando Villavicencio) and then to support a project that belongs to him, but after fulfilling that responsibility I have to take my time.” From abroad, Zurita “has to finish a book inspired by Fernando because he had the information and I will publish it in the middle of next month.”
Zurita also referred to the decision by the National Electoral Council (CNE) to repeat elections for MPs abroad. For the former candidate, “what the CNE is committing is an abuse of the principles of causality, legal certainty, legitimacy and legality with regard to voting abroad”. Should the results differ from those of August 20th, the distribution of seats in Parliament will change. Regarding Construye’s support for one of the candidates who will appear on the ballot, Zurita stressed that they have freedom of choice, but the political organization stressed that it is not possible to agree with the mafias that Fernando Villavicencio fought.
Ortega militarizes the community of Musawás in Nicaragua’s northern Caribbean Sea
Dozens of police officers have been deployed to Musawás indigenous territories in the center of the Bosawa Reserve in Nicaragua’s northern Caribbean. “The area is militarized. “To intimidate them, 40 members of the DOEP Special Forces, the Directorate of Special Police Operations of the National Police, arrived in accordance with the guidelines of the Ortega administration,” said an anonymous complaint from the region. Community members assert that the militarization is a response to maintaining control over communities following the capture of seven community members and foresters, all of whom were violently detained and arbitrarily sentenced. “They have requested a police base in Musawas and we still do not know for what purpose they will build it, but so far we know that they want to capture more members of our community,” fear the residents of the area, far away They do not trust and fear the presence of the Sandinista police. Amaru Ruiz, an environmental activist, told the independent website 100% Noticias that fear was high among community members after learning of the arrival of riot police, especially since the arrest of their rangers.
Paolo Manzo, August 31, 2023
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