Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has thanked Guatemala for helping nearly 600 Mexicans who have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence. But he also minimized the violence that drove them there.
Locals in Guatemala offer sodas to Mexicans who fled their town of Amatenango, Mexico and crossed the border to Ampliación Nueva Reforma, Guatemala , to escape cartel violence in Mexico , Thursday, July 25, 2024. Some refugees are staying at the school and others at locals’ homes. FILE - President Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks during a flag ceremony at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, June 11, 2024.
“Our adversaries want to see that our government is unstable, that violence dominates and our country is being destroyed,” he said. The National Guard would secure the area and the situation would soon be resolved, he said. A Guatemalan government report said some 580 people had fled violence in the Mexican state of Chiapas, including men, women, children and elderly.said shootouts had forced them to flee and the cartels had made locals work checkpoints and used them as human shields while they battled their rivals.his administration would coordinate the humanitarian response though there was little sign of it yet.
Two of Mexico’s most powerful cartels from the northern states of Sinaloa and Jalisco have been battling for control of smuggling routes in the area of southern Mexico for more than a year causing multiple displacements.Mexico’s president conceded the cartels had cut off electrical power in some Chiapas towns near the border with Guatemala, and forbade government workers from coming into the largely rural area to fix power lines.
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