The densely populated “mayor” is emptied. Ghost community is located in Apatzingán

Panormara is dark, left violence in the empty streets, closed homes and deserted tea in mayor, ghost society that is located in this Mishwakan municipality.

On a tour of this newspaper, the conditions of a town were found without people, where fear forced hundreds of families to flee due to the violence resulting from conflicts between hostile criminal groups fighting the square.

According to the latest INEGI census, in 2020, society was 344. However, as of March 21, only five houses remained occupied, with no more than 20 people. The last forced displacement was a week ago, after new clashes.

Most houses show signs of abandonment, dust and herbs that invaded the earth and are evidence of the massive displacement of families that started for three years.

The pictures are repeated in the entire city in a practical way, and there are chairs, furniture, washing machines and forgotten clothes … Even some doors have been forced by members of organized crime, who benefit from citizens’ journey to enter homes and take what can serve them.

Horror

Fixed fire operations in society, forcing residents to hide for hours.

We did not find where to hide from the bullets, which landed on one side and on the other side, around the house. We accumulate many families … We all made a ball there. “We spent the night and the shooting ended until 5 am … it started 6 minutes ago,” said one of the mayors, who prefers not to be identified.

The surfaces of the platelets are shot and explosives launched by drones, a strategy for criminal groups operating in the region.

In the city’s church, where the masses are not celebrated at the present time, there are traces of these attacks, on the ground and between the seats, there are remnants of the shattered papers.

Methods and fear of returning

For the few people trying to return, the road is full of traps. The explosives hidden in the tracks are a deadly danger.

It looks rare … as it looks modern or some things on the road. For example, you see something … because you must evade any cardboard, bag or object. ”

Another farmer from Apatzingán guarantees that the only way to go to work is with daylight. “Now you have to wait until dawn to go out to the field, for the sake of mines … you must adapt, to bed early, because at night when everything begins,” said the family’s father, who indicates that he lives in constant fear that his children are victims.

Closed schools

For eight months, the classroom is constantly suspended, the teachers do not arrive and schools are temporarily occupied by the federal police forces, which after a few days are withdrawn, leaving the community again at the mercy of organized crime.

The problem is that it does not reach resources, forces or budget to maintain a continuous presence in the region. These authorities forced them to withdraw and transfer them, according to the emergence of the moment, which makes this strategy not sustainable.

Maria del Carmen Zebida, the governor of Apatsengan, who admitted that the exit was not stopped and that there is slightly more than 10 societies with this constant.

Before they were only fighting with bullets, they are now explosive, mines of the earth, these new methods have given up a greater danger to societies. “People flee with what they wear or with a bag of clothes,” says Zebida.

Despite the violence, the state government stated that in this recent displacement, only 15 families abandoned the mayor and ensured that they returned to continue their daily lives.

However, for the residents who still resist the panorama is not certain. The lack of security, ongoing attacks and the abandonment of the authorities made the mayor of the town.

CVA