Alonso Urrutia
La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, December 9, 2021, p. 5
The 2020 report on forced internal displacement carried out by the Mexican Commission for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights shows that currently, the total number of people who have been expelled from their territories amounts to 356,792 people in the accumulated historical record. mainly due to the presence of organized armed groups, political violence, social or territorial conflicts. In greater detail, the National Population Council (Conapo) reported that based on the population census, between 2015 and 2020 there were 262 thousand forcibly displaced people.
In the NGO report only in 2020 there were 9,741 affected and 24 episodes of internal displacement were counted, of which 14 were due to the operation of organized crime, mainly in Chiapas, Guerrero, Chihuahua, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Sinaloa and Sonora , according to the organization’s document from the Internal Displacement Observatory that has been operating since 2014. In Mexico, multiple confrontations, attacks, and armed incursions were registered, as well as various forms of violence that caused, among after damages, the forced abandonment of other families and individuals from their homes.
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According to the document that alerts about the environment of this phenomenon, particularly the impact of the pandemic, it emphasizes that We can highlight the particular and disproportionate effects on the indigenous, peasant and rural population, who, in addition to their displacement, had to face isolation, lack of infrastructure, access to health services, medical treatments and hygiene measures.
, with particular impact on Ocosingo, Chilón, Chenalhó and Chalchihuitan, Chiapas.
In this regard, the assistant representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Joseph Herrero, highlighted the seriousness of the problem worldwide, as it impacts 82.4 million people, according to the 2021 report of the organization. However, in the Mexican case, he stressed that the impact is different, since the most vulnerable groups, such as women, children and indigenous communities, have more recently forced displacement because it implies double discrimination.
In the case of native peoples, Herrero emphasized the social effect that has, given their ancestral relationship with their territories: “The effect on the indigenous population due to their economic, social and cultural systems associated with the land, makes displacement become a serious threat to communities because it destroys ancestral life models, social structures and identity, putting entire groups at risk of disappearance.
Herrero described the forced displacement of drama, a scourge
But in the case of indigenous communities, due to their characteristics of connection to their lands, “it puts the survival of peoples at risk.
