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| Community Police from Acatempa, Tecoczintla, El Troncón and Zacatzonapa, Guerrero, are sworn in Photo: Francisco Olvera |
La Jornada: Sergio Ocampo
Tixtla, Guerrero - The swearing in of 106 members of the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities, Community Police (CRAC-PC), in the indigenous Nahua towns of Acatempa, Tecoczintla, El Troncón, and Zacatzonapa, in the municipality of Tixtla, turned into an act of support for the Guerrero Popular Movement (MPG), which is lead by the State Coordinating Committee of Education Workers in Guerrero (CETEG). It was announced that the movement will spread throughout the country.
At the event, at the beginning of his speech, Eliseo Villar Flores, regional coordinator of the House of Justice House of San Luis Acatlán, publicly acknowledged the governor, Angel Aguirre Rivero, which earned him a widespread series of boos and jeers from the more than 2 thousand people present.
After the response from the attendees, the CRAC coordinator said that they are giving the state congressional deputies until Tuesday to approve the proposed amendment to the State Education Law, which revived the spirits of the hundreds of people, including some 150 police officers from the community of El Paraiso in the municipality of Ayutla de los Libres.
He said that on April 16 there will be a mega-march, but warned that if there is no favorable response to the plan, the MPG will move from Plan A, in which it only carries out marches and blockades, to plan B, which includes demanding the removal of the authorities in Guerrero, and then to Plan C, where the CRAC will assert its full force and right "to reestablish authority".
Jose Angel Baron, on behalf of the MPG, said that if the congressional deputies did not approve the amendment to the State Education Law, presented first on March 25, the movement would spread to Michoacan, Oaxaca and Chiapas, and even the Federal District [Mexico City].
Meanwhile, Gonzalo Molina González, CRAC promoter in Tixtla said:
"We are part of the same movement of Community Police. The time of darkness and oppression and plundering of our natural resources with impunity is over. The people are rising up and are organized to build a power of the people."He added:
"We summon everyone to move beyond oppositional struggles to combat the sectarianism that divides and slows the popular struggle,"He called all social sectors not to support political parties and explained the eight points that the PMG addresses: the war on drugs, rejection of [multinational] mines, exploitation of the forests, rescuing the springs and rivers, another model of education and the fight against malnutrition.
He lamented the attempt to criminalize social struggles and legitimize repression, but said,
"we will move forward with the Constitution in our hand, based on law 701 and international treaties that protect us."Spanish original