GUATEMALA CITY — GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala on Wednesday granted momentary humanitarian standing to 161 Mexicans who fled their nation final week searching for refuge from organized crime, whilst Mexican officers denied that anybody had been displaced.
The Guatemalan Immigration Institute stated that 39 households, together with 69 youngsters, from the Mexican municipality of Frontera Comalapa can be allowed briefly to stay legally within the nation.
The households had been staying in rented houses, with kinfolk or in momentary shelters within the Guatemalan border city of La Mesilla.
However Eduardo Ramírez, governor of the Mexican border state of Chiapas, stated Wednesday on X that those that went to Guatemala have kinfolk who’ve been arrested and are dealing with expenses in Mexico, a declare he made with out offering proof.
“The organized crime that operates within the neighboring nation of Guatemala desires to discredit our public security technique that has given tranquility and social peace in Chiapas” by saying individuals have been forcibly displaced by crime, Ramírez wrote. “I categorically deny that truth.”
It was not the primary time that Mexicans crossed the border to flee violence. In July of final 12 months, practically 600 crossed at one other level on the border.
Two of Mexico’s strongest cartels from the northern states of Sinaloa and Jalisco have been battling for management of smuggling routes within the space of southern Mexico lately inflicting a number of displacements.
In June, Chiapas state police pursued suspects into Guatemala and engaged in a shootout.
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