CDMX police forces evicted a Triqui camp in Central Axis

During the early morning of April 25, a large number of police officers were deployed from Mexico City, who surrounded a camp located on the Central Axis, where Triquis families were found, mostly women and children, who have been displaced from their community, Tierra Blanca for 15 months Copala, in the state of Oaxaca, for the violence in the region.

According to the information retrieved by the media Footer, Juan Gutiérrez Márquez, General Coordinator of Political Consultation of the CDMX, explained that the reason for eviction was due to an anonymous complaint received by the CDMX Human Rights Commission and sent to the Secretary of Government, Martí Batres.

In the reading of this, it was pointed out that children and adolescents who are in the camp “do not go to school and leave the camp, without adult supervision, which has caused the little ones to cry as they feel lost among the multitude of people who travel through the area daily. He has also observed that the sanitary conditions are not adequate,” the official said when presenting with the families.

Although the women refused to retire, cleaners began to dismantle the camp and threw the belongings of the triquis into garbage trucks.

It should be noted that in the company of the Coordinator, was Estela Damián, representative of the National System for the Development of Families (DIF) of the capital. According to the statements recovered by the aforementioned media, the agency pressured the women of the camp to agree to go to a shelter, since they allegedly threatened to take custody of their children.

According to reports, the members of the camp were not clarified to which shelter they would be referred to.

There are about 143 Triqui families from the Mixtec region of Oaxaca who have been displaced from their homeland, this after the entry of a group of armed people who attacked their community on December 26, 2020.

On that date, a series of shootings broke out throughout the town, resulting in four dead and several injured, including three children.

Following the complaints and the sit-in in Mexico City, the federal and local authorities pledged to resolve the situation of insecurity they were in.

Thus, in mid-2021, displaced Triqui families tried to return to their community; however, they were unable to enter their village, although federal and state governments assured that there was already an agreement with other communities in the area.

And it is that in July of that year, Triqui families were escorted by several vehicles of the National Guard and others from the State Police to reach their community. When they arrived in Tierra Blanca, a group of women prevented access for displaced persons and security elements. Federal and state authorities tried unsuccessfully to dialogue with them.

Since then, communities have not been certain of return or of a safe space to reside.

At the same time, they lack economic security, since the main income they receive is from the support left by domestic and foreign tourists at the sit-in, provided by social organizations and remittances sent by their relatives who emigrated to the United States.

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