Family of slain Mexican environmentalist refuses to flee
The wife and children of an environmental activist slain in the mountains of southern Mexico have refused to leave their village, despite threats against them
By The Associated Press
April 12, 2021, 7:28 PM
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MEXICO CITY -- The wife and children of an environmental activist slain in the mountains of southern Mexico have refused to leave their village despite threats against them, Mexico’s Interior Department said Monday.
The department said authorities traveled to the hamlet of Las Conchitas last week to make contact with the wife of Carlos Marqués Oyorzábal.
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Marqués Oyorzábal, who helped lead a struggle against illegal logging in the region plagued by criminal and drug gangs, was killed by assailants near Conchitas on April 4 and his body was reportedly hacked up.
The Interior Department offered to “extract” his wife and the couple’s six children, presumably to take them to a safer place. However, the wife refused, saying they did not want to abandon their community, the department said.
The department said some unspecified security measures would be provided for them in Las Conchitas.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/family-slain-mexican-environmentalist-refuses-flee-77032912
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The assassinated Carlos Marques Oyorzabal, before the monsters tortured and murdered him.
Google translated:
CNDH requests protection for the family of an environmental defender killed in Guerrero
3 days ago Editorial Staff
The family of Carlos Marqués Oyorzábal, an environmentalist murdered on April 3, asked for support "as soon as possible because they already tortured us very ugly."
The National Human Rights Commission ( CNDH ) requested precautionary measures from the governor of Guerrero, Héctor Astudillo Flores, the municipal president of San Miguel Totolapan, Juan Miguel Acosta, and the State Attorney General's Office, to safeguard security, physical integrity and life of the family of Mr. Carlos Marqués Oyorzábal, environmental defender and municipal commissioner of the town of Las Conchitas, murdered on April 3.
This Commission learned of the journalistic note entitled: "They threaten relatives of an ecologist murdered in Guerrero", published on the electronic portal of the newspaper "La Jornada", on April 6, which reports on the risk situation in which he is the family of Mr. Carlos Marqués Oyorzábal, whose body was dismembered.
https://newsreportmx.com/2021/04/09/cndh-pide-proteccion-para-familia-de-defensor-ambientalista-carlos-marques-oyorzabal-asesinado-en-guerrero/
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Google translation:
Ecologist Carlos Marques Oyorzábal murdered and mutilated in Guerrero
Sergio Ocampo Arista, correspondent 04/04/2021
Chilpancingo, Gro. The Observatory for Peace and Development of the Sierra de Guerrero reported that an organized crime group murdered and cut up Carlos Marques Oyorzábal, an ecologist peasant and municipal commissioner of the town of Las Conchitas, municipality of San Miguel Totolapan, in Tierra Caliente of warrior.
By telephone, one of the leaders of the Observatory for Peace, who requested anonymity, explained that the commissioner was getting off his ATV from his community on the El Duraznito road towards the Ciénega de Puerto Alegre, “when he was surprised by a group of criminals, presumably people from "El Nencho", who traveled in three trucks, so they returned with him to the town of Ciénega de Puerto Alegre. "
Already in the ejidal police station "the criminals tortured the defender of the forests until he died, and proceeded to cut him to pieces, leaving him in pieces at night."
The Observatory for Peace recalled that Commissioner Carlos Marques “was part of the community police that formed the United Nations, who have supported the arrest of trucks that removed the wood from our ejido, but now we see with concern that the delinquency, and strengthening because many of those who killed the municipal commissioner were not from there, but from other places ”.
According to the testimony, the people are frightened and are even afraid to file complaints because they threaten residents and environmentalists by radio.
There are imminent threats against the peoples who defend the forests “and that is why we asked Eudocio Barragán, who heads the community policemen of the town of Lindavista, what they have done so far, because it is assumed that they armed themselves to defend the forests, but it seems that they were armed with the permission of “el nencho”, and “la changa”, it seems now that the United Peoples are in collusion, with them and not with the peoples who oppose the looting of wood.
We are endorsing the demand “to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Governor Héctor Astudillo Flores, to intervene before it is too late; we also want a mixed operations base to be installed in the town of Agua Escondida, municipality of San Miguel Totolapan, with the participation of the Mexican Army, the National Guard, and the State Police ”.
Meanwhile, peasants from the towns of San Vicente de Benítez, Río Santiago, El Paraíso, and other towns in the mountains of the municipality of Atoyac de Álvarez, on the Costa Grande, denounced on social media that every day “6 ( trucks) loggers full of wood, and we know by whom they are protected, and that does not intimidate us, and also which ejidatarios and ejido commissioners are with them and how much they are being paid ”.
https://www.msn.com/es-mx/noticias/mexico/asesinan-y-mutilan-en-guerrero-al-ecologista-carlos-marques-oyorz%C3%A1bal/ar-BB1fihY9
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This would not be an appropriate topic to use for stimulation of right-wing trolls to invite out of hiding to try to defend the business interests involved in hiring these criminals to drive the poor and defenseless away from protecting the country's forests, hoping to keep them out of the hands of greedy soulless predators.