The states of the southern border of Mexico formed in 2024 the area with the greatest perception of insecurity in the country before the dispute of the cartels for drug trafficking and people, which could be aggravated by migrants who are stranded before the new restrictions in USA.
The city with the greatest perception of insecurity was Villahermosa, Tabasco, where 95.3% of its inhabitants reported this sensation, while the capital of Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez (90.6%), and its largest city in the border with Central America, Tapachula (90.1 %), occupied the fifth and sixth places.
Therefore, civil associations and merchant organizations in Tapachula, considered the greatest entry to Mexico, asked federal and state governments to address the problem of insecurity.
Alfredo de la Cruz Cordero, representative of the New Generation and Social Linking organization, attributed part of the problem to the lack of control at the border with Central America, saturated by migrants, which organized crime takes advantage of.
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“Where are the filters? When the filters must be on the border with Guatemala, wherever, they are the steps of that transit of citizens around the world because there were previously talk about (people) of Honduras, El Salvador, from Central America, (but now) here we see To Chinese, Russians, ”he told Efe.
Between drugs and migrants
The fight between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) has risen, while irregular migration reaches record levels, with 925,000 people in this situation detected by the Government from January to August 2024, an interannual increase greater than 130% .
In addition, the inhabitants expect a greater presence of migrants because they would be stranded with the new measures of the president of the United States Donald Trump, who has restricted asylum requests and eliminated the application ‘CBP One’ of the Customs Office and Border Protection for Manage appointments from southern Mexico.
Aníbal Enrique Núñez, secretary of the Organization of Merchants of Procenter, regretted that organized crime has a control that has not been able to eradicate although the Pakal group, a security body created by the new governor of Chiapas, Eduardo Ramírez, “has made very well your work. “
“But we continue to have a problem at the border, and talking to those who reside there and talking to the municipal authorities of that area and the state government (I hope) can do something because they are federal places there, and the National Guard can do something ”, He said.
The entrepreneur of this border area requested to strengthen surveillance with elements of federal forces to provide security to Guatemalans who want to buy in Mexico, because insecurity prevents them from arriving, he said.
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He added that in Tapachula the merchants receive calls for extortion of organized crime known as ‘floor collection’.
Elmer Vázquez Gallardo, municipal president of Ciudad Hidalgo, first entrance door of thousands of migrants, said they are managing that the authorities install a base of the newly created immediate reaction force Pakal (FRIP) to provide security.
“The Suchiate River is an international dividing line and the support of the federal government is required so that they are also on the Suchiate River, we ask the State Government to be a police base,” he said.
With EFE information
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