The taking of booths will continue until they hand us over at 43, normalistas warn

Sergio Ocampo-Arista

Correspondent

Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, February 6, 2022, p. eleven

Chilpancingo, Gro., During a demonstration held yesterday in Chilpancingo, students from the Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa warned that they will stop have the toll booths on the Autopista del Sol México-Acapulco when the federal government handed over the 43 disappeared students in Iguala in September 2014.

The normalistas marched through the streets of Chilpancingo and held a rally at the anti-monument at 43, where they succinctly denounced that during the confrontation that took place on Friday at the Palo Blanco booth with elements of the National Guard (GN) and the state police, 20 students were injured, three of whom are hospitalized in a Tixtla hospital and one of them in serious condition.

The state government, meanwhile, indicated that 22 soldiers were injured: 14 from the GN and eight from the state police, as well as material damage to the vehicle used against the police forces, which collided with a tourist information module that was near the stand.

Another leader of the rural normal of Ayotzinapa affirmed that the brawl originated when the elements of the GN began the aggression, we only responded with what we had at hand.Claimed that the troops of the GN and state police, instead of guarding booths, should fight the crime that has terrified the citizens of many regions of Guerrero: It is useless to have many security forces if they only serve to repress the people, the social organizations and the students.

They hold Salgado responsible

The student blamed Governor Evelyn Salgado for the events of Friday, because the day before he warned that the law would be applied to those who took the booths, We are not vandals, if we protest it is because we want the government to comply by handing over our 43 missing comrades in Iguala.

For her part, the university activist Roberta Campos denounced that the governor protects the interests of the businessmen who have the concession of the Autopista del Sol; the lady governor forgets that Guerrero is a state where social struggle has always prevailed.

Micaela Cabañas, daughter of the late guerrilla Lucio Cabañas Barrientos and director of the Guerrero Office of the National Human Rights Commission, described provocation the actions of the federal and state forces that led to the confrontation.