"Char" for Borderland Beat
This information was shared on X by Isaín Mandujano
July 20, 2024
"The SIERRA MADRE OF CHIAPAS and the Border Region is paralyzed. At least 13 road blockades are registered. It is not possible to enter or exit anywhere. For two weeks organized crime groups have been disputing this region. But today at dawn there were mobilizations of civilians pressured by both groups into confrontation.
From Huixtla to Motozintla there are two blockades, one in Belisario Dominguez and the other between Horizonte and Guadalupe. Blocking entrances and exits of Motozintla, Comalapa, and Chicomuselo. Other blockades at the bridge of Mazapa, Nuevo Mexico, Chamic, and Campana, El Porvenir, at the junction of Bejucal de Ocampo, and on the other side of the Sierra in San Nicolas.
Extreme caution if you want to move around the region. It has also impacted the La Concordia, Montecristo, and Jaltenango de La Paz municipalities.
Armored monster vehicles have been mobilized in the region. The civilian population was pressured to carry out blockades and women and children from various communities in the municipalities of Comalapa, Mazapa de Madero, Amatenango de la Frontera, Motozintla, Bejucal de Ocampo, Siltepec, Bellavista, El Porvenir, Chicomuselo, Montecristo de Guerrero and Jaltenango de La Paz have been living hours of anxiety in the last few hours.
Cutting electrical wires to leave regions without energy, blocking roads with fallen trees, knocking down telephone poles, cutting water pipes, forced recruitment, and pressuring civilians to block roads and highways, are some of the strategies of organized crime in its struggle for control of territory in this region of the Sierra and the Border."
SOURCE: ISAIN MANDUJANO
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