January 24, 2020
From any point of view, what is happening in Chilapa, in Guerrero Mountain, is inadmissible. When society is still touched by the case of Torreón, a group of alleged self-defense groups (in reality, a criminal group linked to the Los Rojos cartel faced with the Los Ardillos cartel) has no better idea than to arm children between 5 and 15 years to sacrifice them to the hitmen of the rival cartels. It is a criminal act that must be punished by the authorities, which one wonders how much more they will wait to intervene in that area of the state of Guerrero, literally abandoned to their fate or, rather, to the fate of criminal groups.
What are we doing with our children? If the health of a society is measured by the way it treats its children, its children and grandchildren, ours is treating them in a brutal way: we incorporate them into groups of the hired killer, we leave them weapons at their disposal, the educational level It is unfortunate, we do not provide any safety net, we do not give them medicines to treat their diseases, sexual assaults go unpunished. This is the generation we are creating and, to a large extent, destroying.
The images of armed children in Chilapa, Guerrero, are simply terrible, comparable to those of international terrorist groups that train children to commit attacks. But the issue goes further, we are talking about groups of alleged self-defense that, in reality, are, as in Michoacán, part of the dispute between different criminal groups. According to federal intelligence sources, the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities-Founding Peoples (CRAC-PF) is a letterhead closely related to guerrilla organizations in the region and, above all, to the Los Rojos cartel. To that organization belongs, by the way, Senator Nestora Salgado, who, incomprehensibly, went from being accused of multiple kidnapping to being part of the ruling party in the upper house.
The authorities know this, they know the relationships and the operational capacity of these groups and it is incomprehensible that they do not operate to eradicate them and return some peace to the mountain people. But it will be difficult for this to happen when these men and women, the poorest of the poor, are not even getting the basic fertilizer support to maintain their subsistence agriculture. In the region there are already signs of famine and nothing happens.
But not only can it be exhibited in violation of national and international laws to armed children, but we also strip them of their medicines to treat catastrophic diseases. I confess that I do not understand how the shortage of medicines can be fought by disabling pharmaceutical companies or buying drugs that could be obtained in the country abroad. Much less how the media maroma is done to end up blaming the directors of specialty hospitals, accused, without any evidence, of not supplying the medicines. It is outrageous throughout the line: the shortage of medicines, beyond the fact that there may or may not be corrupt management in any company or some official, is due to improvisation and mismanagement that federal authorities have had. And it is something that is being noticed since May of last year and they have not done anything to solve it.
That the President has decided not to receive the parents of children with cancer who do not have medicines for their treatments is as serious as the one who has not received the members of the caravan of victims headed by Javier Sicilia and the LeBarón. It is incomprehensible that the President says he does not receive them so as not to “lend himself to the show.” The caravans headed by Sicily have met Presidents Calderón and Peña and have always done so in a context of complaint, but respect. And even if it were not, they are families of victims who deserve to be received.
It cannot be understood that a discourse in support of the poor is insisted and that those who do not receive medical care for their children or those who demand a basic claim, justice for their debts, be ignored in equal parts. And that, in addition, it ends up qualifying that claim as a show, when we come from the most violent year in the country’s history.
There is too much impunity, there is a lack of medication due to official unforeseen events, and there is a threat to investigate and punish the doctors of specialties who cannot apply the treatments because the State does not buy the medicines they need and which are irreplaceable. And we don’t finish shocking us. Something we are doing very badly.
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