AWARDED THE TATA VASCO RECOGNITION 2023.
Chilapa de Álvarez Gro. February 8, 2024.
THE STATE OF GUERRERO WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, WITHOUT AUTHORITIES, AND WITHOUT LAW. HUGS ARE NOT ENOUGH TO STOP BULLETS.
How much has the dignity of the people of Guerrero cost to keep them from taking to the streets demanding the resignation or removal of the governor, and even the elimination of powers in the state?
Where has the combative spirit of this heroic people who have made so many contributions to the history of Mexico gone?
Why do the so-called Social Organizations, Civil Human Rights Organizations, and the Church remain silent in the face of so much atrocities and the inaction of rulers and authorities?
In the state of Guerrero, human rights remain a dead letter, despite the governor’s declaration that Guerrero would be a “Sanctuary of Human Rights.”
If the numbers game serves us right, according to Google, there are currently 14,620 National Guard members in Guerrero, in nine barracks and eight military installations, in addition to 3,107 soldiers and agents in the mountainous area in the municipalities of Chilpancingo de los Bravo, General Eliodoro Castillo, San Miguel Totolapán, and Ajuchitlán del Progreso. This is without taking into account exact data on all the technological means of espionage they have, much less their firepower.
Even so, terror embraces the population, thousands murdered, thousands disappeared, thousands of displaced families and dozens trying to flee to other countries, executions every day in different cities, attacks on communities in the mountains, public transportation in several cities collapsed, a press and various digital media subjugated by fear, while state institutions, contaminated to the marrow of their bones, are part of one or another criminal group or narco-paramilitary that are created and strengthened by the government within the counterinsurgency strategy, despite the fact that the people are totally demobilized and the so-called social organizations dismantled, today, when the people are more concerned about getting their daily bread, stretching out their hands waiting for the alms that the rulers throw at them, always under the fear of losing that “support”, that is the payment that is given for the dignity of the people, who remain silent even though they are being massacred, when they leave their homes without knowing if they are going to return home alive to their families, or when they live in fear and a tightness in their chest, not knowing if their sons or daughters will return home safe and sound, day after day, and still unable to react.
While the former “revolutionaries” and “guerrillas” join in and openly grovel at official events like the one held this February 2nd in San Luis Acatlán, in a tribute to the man who gave his life, along with dozens of men and women who fought to “Achieve the Liberation of Mexico and a New Homeland or Die for It,” they are truly a disgrace.
For now, the reorganization of territorial power among narco-political groups tends to become even more complicated as the electoral campaigns progress. The various victims of this violence are unable to find truth and justice, and families are unable to find their missing loved ones. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador continues to attack the legal representatives of the mothers and fathers of the 43 Ayotzinapa students who disappeared in 2014, the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center and the Tlachinollan Mountain Human Rights Center, shaping the case toward impunity, betting on the division of families for the sake of money.
In this context of violence and humanitarian crisis, the José Ma. Morelos y Pavón Regional Center for the Defense of Human Rights continues to demand that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Legislative and Judicial branches, and Governor Evelyn Cesia Salgado Pineda fulfill their constitutional obligations and guarantee compliance with and respect for human rights. The right to life, to physical and psychological integrity, to peace, to security, and all others, because let us remember that human rights are universal, indivisible, and non-waivable.
We hold the three levels of government and the ruling power groups responsible for any physical and psychological aggression, harassment, or threats suffered by members of the Morelos Center and other human rights defenders, journalists, and members of the various collectives of relatives of the disappeared.
Sincerely,
Lic. Teodomira Rosales Sierra.
Director of the José Ma. Morelos y Pavón Regional Center for the Defense of Human Rights