Activistas de Los Angeles Piden Justicia al Condoner La Muerte de 38 Migrants en Ciudad Juarez

Los activistas del Sur de California condenaron el conduct de los guardias que, en un video surveillance, pueden verse huyendo de la zone de detención mientras las llamas cercaban las doorways de las celldas, y exigimasiasias v paramilisias. The Mexican authorities stated that the incendiary was provoked by inmates who had been combating deportation. However activists on each side of the border have questioned this model and criticized the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

“Quiero decirle al gobierno mexicano que no sea tan inhumano”, dijo Cecilia Rodríguez, Presidenta de la Alianza Hondureña de Los Ángeles y oriunda de Choluteca, una province del south de Honduras. “Este gobierno de Mexico es un hipócrita. Ni siquiera ayuda a sus propios ciudadanos. Me pares que es parte de la mafia”. Andrés Manuel López Obrador tine que entender que esta gente no quere vivir en México, solo queren passer e leger a estados Unidos.”

The Mexican authorities have knowledgeable that 68 folks of numerous nationalities had been detained within the heart when the fireplace broke out, amongst them migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, El Salvador, Ecuador and Colombia. Within the final years, tens of hundreds of migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean have been stranded in Mexico on account of the truth that the American authorities, below successive administrations, has pressured Mexico to maneuver from estados to estadosados.

Amarilys Ortiz, secretary basic of the Guatemalan-American Affiliation, believes that López Obrador doesn’t care about immigrants as a result of, in his opinion, he has not executed sufficient to cease the narco-trafficking cartels from exploiting poverty and la violencia en sus países de origen. In 2020, López Obrador acknowledged having ordered the discharge of Ovidio Guzman, son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman, narcotraficante and chief of the Sinaloa cartel.

“This could attain the group of the United Nations and the good organizations that defend human rights as a result of that is transformed into a part of a legal construction that the Mexican authorities defends”, stated Ortizéndéríndés, a loyal convert. “Los líderos nacionales y mundiales deben pronunciarse sobre lo que está pasando en México”.

Though López Obrador initially stated that the detainees had provoked the fires, the minister of Overseas Affairs of Guatemala, Mario Búcaro, blamed the contrabandistas of individuals, the so-called “coyotes of contrabandistas of individuals”, a la the llamados of “coyotesemonas de lacontos”.

Within the opinion of Rosa Posada, advisor of the Union of Guatemalan Emigrants in Los Angeles, the deaths of the emigrants may have been prevented if that they had improved the financial and social situations of the international locations that expelled them. A lot of the central and southern People who cross the Mexican territory go away their family members with the hope of discovering work in Mexico, america and Canada.

“La gente viene a buscar algo para alimentar a sus hijos ya su familia”, stated the native of Escuintla, an industrial metropolis in Guatemala centered on the sugar agro business. “Es realente triste que los gobiernos al ver esto no se preocupen, no presten atención a esta situación. La verdad es que es triste para los niños que se quedan, las esposas, los padres y la familia”.

Provided that america and Mexico have taken robust measures in opposition to immigration in recent times, Posada believes that the prices and risks of leaving the nation have elevated dramatically. Affirmó que el gobierno mexicano debe respectar el derecho de las peoples a emigrar y asumir una mayor responsabilidad para evitar conditions que desemboquen en tragedias como la de Ciudad Juárez.

“Protestamos energicamente porque son muchas las arbitrariedades que ocurren contra los migrants [en suelo mexicano]sin importar de dónde sean”, dijo Leoncio Velásquez, Presidente de Hondureños Unidos de Los Ángeles.

Oriundo de Tegucigalpa, la Capital hondureña, Velásquez stated that on Friday at 4 pm he’ll maintain a protest in entrance of the Consulate of Mexico in Los Angeles, adopted by a procession till the seventh road and lahurnado, Parker. There, the contributors will mild candles and have fun a vigil in reminiscence of the victims of the fireplace in Ciudad Juárez.

“We’re going to protest in entrance of the consulate to demand that Mexican authorities respect the rights of migrants,” stated Velásquez. “México tiene que respetar a todos los que están en la ruta migratoria”.

In the meantime, officers from the completely different Central American consulates in Los Angeles have stated that they may present help and knowledge to any of their compatriots in relation to the tragedy in Ciudad Juárez.

“En caso de que haya alguna necessidad o aparezca algun acquainted, a través del área del protección consular los putremos en contacto con las authorities de Guatemala”, dijo José Arturo Rodríguez, consul basic de Guatemalangáles.

Los migrantes guatemaltecos pueden llamar al (213) 900-1098 y marcar la choice nº 2 para acceder a un número de emergency. Los Hondurans que viven en Estados Unidos pueden llamar al centro de llamadas de su consulado al (470) 751-9077.