President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured that the violence in Tila, which turned this Chiapas community into a ghost town, after an armed attack, which left at least two dead, is due to a problem of land possession, which is at least 50 years old.
At the morning press conference at the National Palace, Lopez Obrador He called on the people of Tila, indigenous Choles, to no longer confront each other, to stop violence and to resolve their differences through dialogue and reconciliation.
“It is an issue that comes from afar and both sides have been armed, but it has been around for some time and this happened because of the movement, when the Zapatista uprising, all that, so I call on the people of Tila for reconciliation, I don’t know. you gain nothing with confrontation, with lawsuits; Ultimately, it has already been legally resolved (possession of the land), but this is also what happened, that they want to resolve things only with judicial orders, when it comes to social and cultural problems,” he indicated.
The President of the Republic highlighted that the approximately four thousand displaced people have been returning to Tila, there are fewer who are in the shelters, a Welfare Fair was held and they are helping them so that there are no confrontations. We are not going to leave them alone!, he stated.
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2024-06-14 20:08:36
