Guerrero Indigenous Community Jails Mayor, Officials Over Seized Drug Crops Mexico News Daily
go to original April 2, 2017

The mayor in his jail cell (@SanCadilla)/Twitter)

The mayor of a Guerrero municipality was jailed for a few hours last week by members of an angry indigenous community. Their beef: don’t mess with our drug crops.

Javier Carmona, mayor of Tlacoachistlahuaca, journeyed two hours to Juquila Yucucani, located near the Oaxaca border, to plead for the release of his public works director and other officials who had been detained the day before.

But instead of agreeing residents locked up the mayor, too, and demanded a payment of 1.5 million pesos as compensation for the destruction by the armed forces of their opium poppy and marijuana crops.

They also wanted the Army to withdraw from the area.

The mayor, who spent two hours in the village jail, said later the Mixtec community claimed their losses amounted to nearly 2 million pesos after soldiers destroyed their plants.

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