President Colom state of siege decreed
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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Victims of slaughter played a week of work in Los Cocos
Claudia Méndez Villaseñor / Diana Choc
El Periodico de Guatemala
President Alvaro Colom, the meeting of Cabinet, declared a state of siege in Petén, as you know today in the Congress. The state of siege deleted eight constitutional rights, namely: freedom of action, legal custody, interrogation of detainees or prisoners, freedom of movement, freedom of expression, possession and carrying of weapons and strike of state workers.
Colom said that despite the lack of military personnel and National Civil Police (PNC), "we do against organized crime to really let the people of Peten." He added that now are in that department to direct the operations, therefore requested the withdrawal of the emergency phone peteneros 110, to contribute to eradicate organized crime in the region.
Q50 The opportunity to win day for the next 3 months led to Alonso Emiliano Ramirez, 17, and Adonai Elio Ramirez, 15, to accept the conditions of work offered last week during its passage through Morales, Izabal, the contractor of the building Los Cocos, in the rural area of \u200b\u200bLa Libertad, Petén. The 2 boys joined 27 laborers of the municipality, Los Amates, and Zacapa, who arrived in Liberty last week.
The practice of hiring temporary workers in other departments is common in the city, said Jason Stewart, Nicaraguan-born priest of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in La Libertad. "Some days ago we heard that the new workers had arrived," he said.
The peasants were to receive a daily wage of Q50 for growing grass for livestock, mainly, and within 3 months of recruitment expected to multiply at least Q4 thousand 500. The calculations just reached Q350. The young and the teen yesterday swelled the list of victims of the slaughter occurred on that farm on 14 May, which killed 25 laborers and two women. Few farmers
Los Cocos is located between the communities of La Bomba and April 17, about 90 kilometers from the village of Las Cruces, near the parceling Las Dos Erres, precisely where one of the massacres occurred in December 1982, registered as one of the most violent in the eighties.
"There is a way that communicates to the pump to April 17, and the ramifications of the way, we can consider that at least there are other farms of similar proportions in the area," said the priest. "These roads are in better condition than the principal," he added.
Soto said that the workers have little contact with other people of La Libertad: "I hardly go out, everything they do on the farm," he added. The site The archaeological Joyanca is another area near Los Cocos. Residents suspect that the two communities live a lot of drug dealers.
"The farmers have accumulated large tracts of land, is known to have forced farmers to sell at low prices, after harassing and threatening them," said one villager.
The few who own their own land devoted to maize cultivation or afforestation. The remaining area is dedicated to livestock. Enrique Bolaños, parish priest of Las Cruces, believes that the area has no middle class people, only farmers and ranchers. Today, La Bomba and April 17 will be held two Masses for the 27 victims.
At the end of This year, the morgue of the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF) from San Benito, Petén, had identified 18 bodies. The Elio Emiliano and Adonai, among them.
Wenceslao Lopez, chief of staff of the municipality of La Libertad, said public prosecutor's office requested support to dig the graves in the municipal cemetery, where they would be buried as XX remaining bodies in the morgue without being recognized.
About 20 families traveled from Los Amates and Morales to Petén, referred the officer and head of the police station in Los Amates. "The group was seasonal laborers seeking work on farms there. The family chose to act alone, no have requested assistance or support, "he said.
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The people of La Libertad live days of awe. The head of the Regional Health Center in the municipality, Oscar Rodriguez, share the impression that hospital received one of the survivor of the massacre. "People are tense. Since the patient came to the intestines almost out early Sunday, the news began to spread, "he says.
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The search for the murderers of 27 peasants in Guatemala continued today in the northern region of Peten, which is in charge of military and police forces operating in the area declared by President Alvaro Colom in a state of siege. Colom, who today went for a second day to the border with Mexico and Belize, accompanied by Interior Minister Carlos Menocal, and Defense, Juan José Ruiz, coordinates the operations and research, officials said. Colom
declared a state of siege in Petén late on Monday after visiting the scene of the massacre, the Finca Los Cocos, where on Sunday, 27 peasants were shot and nearly all decapitated, in a slaughter attributed by the authorities to Mexican cartel's hitmen Zetas.
The decision was taken by the president after a few hours in the town of Santa Elena (Petén) tossed three grenades were seriously wounded a police officer, which prompted a military mobilization that ended in a shootout in which killed two suspected members of Los Zetas and another was arrested. Today, Colom expressed confidence "that in the next 48 hours to arrest them important" than possible to find out more of the responsibility of the events on the farm.
In an interview with Mexican radio, Colom has said that the testimony of three protected persons who have been removed from the area, including one person who survived the massacre but was injured and a pregnant woman to whom the assassins let go. Early indications are that what happened on Sunday is "a struggle between drug traffickers, a fight between two groups" that the peasants were innocent victims, said Colom.
Over the last 30 days the state of siege decreed in Petén, the security forces may overcome any property and detain any person without court order, as well as dissolving public meetings or demonstrations.
In the morning have been carried out ten raids on homes in the municipalities of San Benito and Santa Elena, "but still do not know the results" of these proceedings, Efe said a spokesman for the National Civil Police (PNC). Other government sources claimed that there are "several reports" of intelligence that could lead to those responsible for the massacre, most occurred in Guatemala since the end of the internal conflict that bled the country between 1960 and 1996.
This is the second time in less than six months that the government of Colombia declares a state of emergency to fight the group of assassins and Mexican drug traffickers, which has laid its bases in northern areas of the country. In December 2010 the government declared a similar measure in the department of Alta Verapaz, Petén neighbor, to fight Los Zetas cells that have taken over that territory.
The president's decision to declare a state of siege in Petén was described Tuesday as "poor" by local humanitarian organizations. Jorge Santos, International Research Center for Human Rights (CIIDH), said that "to meet the extreme violence" afflicting the country needed "comprehensive measures such as strengthening the state and more police presence to fight frontally against the elements that general impunity. "
For its part, the opposition presidential candidate Otto Perez Molina blamed the government to react" to mean "to the actions of organized crime. In Peten, which has 964 kilometers of border with Mexico, there are groups armed "coming out to kill, have taken over farms, kidnap and blackmail", but officials "were conspicuous in their absence," said Perez Molina, a retired general.
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