Families and Relatives of the Disappeared: Chilapa Is Another Ayotzinapa teleSUR English
go to original May 25, 2015

They call themselves community police, but they are actually members of drug gangs fighting for control of the heroin trade in Guerrero. (AFP)

Anger and frustration was notable among the relatives and families of 16 of at least 30 people who were violently disappeared about 10 days ago, and they riffled questions at the Interim Governor of Guerrero Rogelio Ortega because it took him two weeks to finally decide to visit the violent city of Chilapa, Guerrero.

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The families told local media, the 300 armed men that raided the city and besieged it during six days were backed by army personnel, police and the criminals are linked to the president of the State Congress and the governor himself.

And after revealing that the head of the drug cartel Los Ardillos or The Squirrels is Celso Ortega Jimenez, brother of the president of the state Congress of Guerrero, Bernardo Ortega Jimenez, the families of 16 of the 30 people that were forcibly disappeared over a week ago said Chilapa is another Ayotzinapa.

“Here we have another Ayotzinapa and I believe we have another (ex-Mayor of Igual Jose Luis) Abarca in Congress and as state governor,” said Jose Diaz Navarro, who had two brothers forcibly disappeared along with three other persons Nov. 2014.

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