Translated by Kristin Brickier
January 15, 2013
On Saturday, January 5, 2013, at about 11pm, citizen Eusebio Alvarado García, commissioner of Rancho Nuevo, Tecoanapa municipality, was taken by force from his home by people who belong to the criminal groups that have overrun the Ayutla region. Eusebio had recently arrived at his home with the news that he had been elected a subcommander of the Community Police. That afternoon there was a regional assembly of the authorities of El Portrero, which is also in Tecoanapa, where there were also representatives from other municipalities such as Cuautepec, San Marcos, Cruz Grande, and Ayutla. Previously, the communities in this corridor of the Costa Chica met to plan joint actions against organized crime, which for years has dominated as the scourge of the indigenous and peasant communities because of the authorities' indifference at all three levels of government.
According to residents, the situation became unbearable because of the cruel and abusive manner in which these groups acted. That's why, in the assembly on Saturday they felt the pressing need to construct a basic structure that would confront this de facto power. Various groups of police were formed, each with its own commander, who were given the order to practice armed self defense when faced with any circumstance that would put the fiscal safety, freedom, or life of their compañeros and compañeras in the struggle at risk. Read more.
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