Six kilos of rice and 15 chickens: the support they sent to the relatives of the deceased women in Chiapas who would vote in the Revocation of Mandate

A truck carrying people who intended to cast their votes during the popular consultation of the Revocation of Mandate fell into a ravine while it was driving along the road that connects the communities of San Jorge and Nueva Victoria, in Chiapas. The accident left multiple injured and three people killed. In this regard, their families are demanding justice and have denounced the little support they have received from the authorities.

The incident occurred around 7:35am when the three-and-a-half-ton Ford vehicle fell into the void from a height of approximately 80 meters; the deceased persons were identified as Petrona “N” and Lesbia “N”, as well as Bertha Milagros, a baby who was only a few months old who was transported by her mother in the vehicle. While some of the wounded were identified as Fabian “N”; Cristina “N”; Jesus “N”; Marisela “N” and José “N”.

“By politics my mother is dead and the other neighbor, we want justice because if you knew the pain we have... they said they would take care of everything... for what they sent... 15 chickens, six kilos of rice and three kilos of maseca what are we going to do with that?” , denounced the daughter of one of the deceased women in a video released by reporter Gabriela Coutiño on her official Twitter account.

Similarly, the husband of one of the two deceased women pointed out that his wife was a beneficiary of social programs such as Sowing Life and Nuevo Amanecer and that she was forced to go to vote since threatened to take away the support it received through such social welfare projects.

Witnesses who witnessed the event said that around 15 people were traveling inside the vehicle, including men and women, who were ejected from the truck when it capsized when it fell through an elevated area of the San Fernando Mountains region.

One of the people involved in the accident announced that they went to the municipal seat to cast their vote because a box was not installed in his community, but decided to participate as they were provided with free transportation to attend the Mandate Revocation exercise.

Local media reported that the truck was owned by the Municipal Government, whose owner is José Antonio Castillejos Castellanos, who organized the transfer of people to the municipal seat to exercise their right to vote.

During his morning conference on Monday, April 11, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador accused the National Electoral Institute (INE) of having boycotted the popular consultation of Revocation of Mandate. The Tabasco president again issued a complaint to the electoral body for not placing enough boxes for all citizens to have access to suffrage: “There were municipalities where there were no boxes”.

López Obrador even awarded the body led by Lorenzo Córdova part of the responsibility for the traffic accident in which three people died in San Fernando, Chiapas.

“A truck that took people to vote collapsed (...) All this motivated because they removed a lot of boxes in order to prevent people from participating,” he claimed not before sending his condolences to relatives of the fatalities.

Despite the fact that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador regretted the terrible traffic accident and expressed his condolences to the relatives of the deceased women, the indignation among citizens continues and, if there is anyone expert in highlighting every mistake that the president and his administration make, it is the Chihuahuan influencer Chumel Torres.

Through his official Twitter account, the driver of El Pulso de la República took up the video of the testimony of the relatives of the victims of the accident in the community of San Fernando in Chiapas to once again launch himself against the Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (Morena) party.

“'Threatened that they would take away our support if we didn't vote. ' They are put*s nits @PartidoMorenaMx”, wrote the influencer on his social network.

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