The Kings.- In the last 15 days, at least two villages located on the border strip of Michoacán i Jalisco they have been left empty because their inhabitants were displaced by the New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG).
Inhabitants of the Maguey, municipality of Quitupan, Jalisco, and of the Wolf, community of Cotija, Michoacán, were undressed of their houses, farms and parcels. They are more than 400 members of about 80 families in these two villages, who in less than a week were forced to leave their heritage.
THE UNIVERSAL he toured the area where most of the victims are refugees and from where they ask for help so they can return to their homes, or be protected.
Rafael, a member of one of the displaced families, explains that if they had a quiet and productive life in their community, they now have nothing to eat.
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“We were evicted by the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, without knowing the reason or the reasons. Only three of us were like 150 people in one night,” he said.
For Rafael, originally from the Maguey community, All this is very painful, “without owing them anything, I tell you, because we are good people.”
He narrates that he and his family were threatened by an armed group that broke into their properties. Criminals targeted them with assault rifles and even grenade launchers at children, adults, the elderly, men and women in their village.
One of Raphael’s nephews was killed by the narco while trying to rescue the cattle.
They were warned that if they did not leave they would be killed, without giving them an explanation of why they had to leave their estate for more than 40 years. Thus, in one night, about 150 families had to flee for fear of being killed.
“It’s an incredible thing we can’t overcome yet. We lived very comfortably, very quietly, and they changed our lives overnight for no reason,” laments Rafael.
He explains that they lived on agriculture and their livestock and that today they have none of that.
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He recalls that when one of his nephews, 20, tried to rescue the cattle, he was killed by gunmen. Thus, they went from being producers and ranchers to day laborers. The inhabitants of the Maguey decided to take refuge in the municipality of the Kings, with some relatives. Now, he says, his alternative is to apply for political asylum in United States.
A brother of Raphael points out that now their lives are precarious, as despite being safe, they have had to start from scratch and sometimes have neither to eat nor to rent.
“I want you to know that since the fall of the people of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel [a la comunidad] we started living a real hell, ”he says.
He explains that his father, an elderly gentleman, died of grief for having left everything he built, and more so for the death of his grandson.
“I hope one day God doesn’t give me money to buy weapons, let’s see if I don’t dare to bump into them [a los criminales]; what happens is that people are silent, but they can also get tired, “says the man.
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Another of the displaced reports that after the Maguey families were expelled, the CJNG threatened the inhabitants of the Wolf, where they are already pure women and some of their children, exposed to the violence of criminals.
They estimate that in the two villages there are already about 400 people from 80 families who have been displaced by the narco, without any authority intervening or preventing it.
This, says Luis -another of the displaced-, although in Cotija there is a barracks of the National Guard and operational assumptions of the army.
“But they don’t do anything, because they even protect the ‘jaliscos’ and walk with them.
“Imagine what hope we have of living in peace or that this forced displacement will not continue elsewhere,” the subject reprimands.
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The children also remember the fear they felt when they were pointed with the rifles of the criminals in their heads to force the adults to leave.
They hide from strangers and only pull out their silhouettes to pay attention to what is going on around them; they avoid cameras and microphones.
They tell their parents – in whispers and, in some cases, with their eyes full of tears and broken voices – that they are afraid that someone will hurt them.
Now, families are waiting to find out if they will be able to return home or if they better move to the United States.