Guatemala gave a permanence permit for humanitarian reasons To 161 Mexicans, including 69 children, who took refuge in a Guatemalan village after fleeing drug trafficking violence in their country, the government reported Wednesday.
Monday, the Guatemalan Institute for Migration He indicated that a hundred Mexicans had fled the Mexican southern state of Chiapaswhich faces a resurgence of violence attributed to clashes between cartels.
Last year there was a similar situation, with the Flee to Guatemala from about 600 Mexicanswho returned to their homes almost seven months later.
“In total, 39 families were interviewed and benefited from this humanitarian pass, in addition to receiving inter -institutional attention” in a village in the department of Huehuetenango, border with Mexico, migration said in a statement.
He explained that it is 92 adults and 69 childrenwho “moved to Guatemala derived from the conflict that persists in the state of Chiapas.”
Most Mexicans remain in a temporary shelter enabled in the multipurpose room, but others were welcomed by settlers or rent housing, he added.
In the village there is surveillance of the National Civil Police and the Army of Guatemala, migration pointed out.
Chiapas suffers from the violence linked to organized crime that in recent years has caused the displacement of hundreds of people. According to analysts, the Jalisco Nueva Generación and Sinaloa cartels dispute the drug trafficking routes in the area.
On Friday, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, promised to Strengthen border security With Guatemala, at a meeting with his Guatemalan couple, Bernardo Arévalo.
The first appointment between the two leaders took place two months after an incursion of Mexican police in Guatemalan territory in persecution of alleged drug traffickers, which caused a protest from Guatemala and a request for apology in Mexico.
