After the battle between federal forces and the La Familia cartel in Apatzingán , Michoacán, last week, the mayor tried to organize a "peace march." Demonstrator joined the march with signs supporting La Familia. Whereupon, the mayor cancelled the march. Since then, other such demonstrations, calling for the army and federal police to withdraw, have been reported in Michoacán. Similar demonstrations have been held in Ciudad Juarez in the past. Here a state legislator speaks, denying that they are true popular expressions. In the complicated dynamics of Mexico, we shall see what may emerge.
Demonstrations against federal forces are instigated by criminal groups : PRI leader (Spanish original)
Nicholas Casimiro / Quadratín
MORELIA, Mich., December 13, 2010 .- The demonstrations calling for the exit of federal forces from Michoacán are likely induced by organized crime groups, the president of the Public Safety Committee of the Michoacan State Congress, Juan Carlos Campos Ponce, said.
In this regard, Sr. Campos Ponce, who is also the vice chairperson of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) group in the Legislature, said that he is convinced that the vast majority of people neither agree with, believe in, nor endorse the various marches, protests and banners that have been reported in recent days in the state.
Sr. Campos said he is aware that the mayor of Apatzingán, Genaro Guizar Valencia, of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), called last weekend’s "peace march that afterwards went out of control and became something else, so he distanced himself from it."
However, he thinks that the people of Michoacán ought not to be fooled by a few people who don’t know the reality of what happens in the state or who, by means of pressures intend to push the Federal Preventive Police (PFP) and the Mexican Army out of Michoacán .
"These are not people who go into the streets spontaneously to demonstrate. It obviously has to do with demonstrations that are planned and which pursue very obvious ends. But I think the vast majority of people of Michoacan disagree, do not believe them nor support them, because then it would be as if we were agreeing to anything that involves being at the mercy of criminals, "he said. Dec. 13, 2010
MORELIA, Mich., December 13, 2010 .- The demonstrations calling for the exit of federal forces from Michoacán are likely induced by organized crime groups, the president of the Public Safety Committee of the Michoacan State Congress, Juan Carlos Campos Ponce, said.
In this regard, Sr. Campos Ponce, who is also the vice chairperson of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) group in the Legislature, said that he is convinced that the vast majority of people neither agree with, believe in, nor endorse the various marches, protests and banners that have been reported in recent days in the state.
Sr. Campos said he is aware that the mayor of Apatzingán, Genaro Guizar Valencia, of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), called last weekend’s "peace march that afterwards went out of control and became something else, so he distanced himself from it."
However, he thinks that the people of Michoacán ought not to be fooled by a few people who don’t know the reality of what happens in the state or who, by means of pressures intend to push the Federal Preventive Police (PFP) and the Mexican Army out of Michoacán .
"These are not people who go into the streets spontaneously to demonstrate. It obviously has to do with demonstrations that are planned and which pursue very obvious ends. But I think the vast majority of people of Michoacan disagree, do not believe them nor support them, because then it would be as if we were agreeing to anything that involves being at the mercy of criminals, "he said. Dec. 13, 2010
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