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Let crickets eat squirrels by Emilio Espejel
Organized crime attacks women and children in Guerrero, Mexico.
Indigenous Nahuas denounce that the criminal group "Los Ardillos" has begun to carry out armed attacks against women, children, doctors, and teachers, that is why the schools remain abandoned and the children without classes. Homicides, kidnappings, and shootings keep the Alcozacán and Tula communities isolated.
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Organized crime attacks women and children in Guerrero, Mexico.
Indigenous Nahuas report that the criminal group "Los Ardillos" has begun to carry out armed attacks against women, children, doctors, and teachers, schools remain abandoned, and the children without classes. Homicides, kidnappings, and shootings keep the Alcozacán and Tula communities isolated.
I intend to talk about the timelessness of the topic alluding to the distant past. This part of the country has been having the same problem since the 1800s. According to history, In 1838, the indigenous people of Chilapa, Zitlala, and Quechultenango, led by Pitzotzin, tired of the dispossession suffered by the hands of the landowners of their lands, organized a rebellion defending their fields and lands. In 2021, the indigenous people of Chilapa, Zitlala, led by Jesus Placido Lider of the CRAC PC, tired of the dispossession suffered on their lands by "Los Ardillos," (criminal group), organized a rebellion.
To 2021 they still demand justice, and inhabitants of Alcozacan and Tula, share their testimonies of isolation in between communities and the constant fear they live in to be in the battlefront.
Bio
Emilio Espejel is a Mexican photojournalist currently based in Mexico City. His work is focused on migration, human rights, portraiture, violence, and travel journalism.
His work has been published in, The Guardian, Associated Press, National Geographic, and more.