Cruz exposing the
situation of his community to the
UN Special
Rapporteur on Internally Displaced Persons on September 2018.
URGENT ACTION: Disappearance of
Cruz Soto Caraveo, member of the collective of families forcibly displaced from
the Sierra Tarahumara, accompanied by the organizations CEDEHM and CONTEC from
Chihuahua.
Cruz Soto, his family and other
members of the Monterde community in the municipality of Guazapares in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, have been forcibly displaced since 2013, after they
received death threats from members of the organized crime that controls the area,
who took their land for drug planting.
On Saturday, October
12th, Cruz left Chihuahua, where he is temporarily living, on his
way to Temoris. He went to the Municipal Presidency on Sunday, October 13th,
to meet with personnel from the federal government's Secretariat of Agriculture
and Rural Development. After
leaving the meeting, the same Sunday, Cruz and another person left on a truck
headed towards the community of Los Llanos, when they were forced to stop by unknown subjects who did not identify
themselves. They ordered him to get out of the vehicle, handcuffed and took him
away, without so far having information of his whereabouts.
On August 2018, Cruz
Soto and other displaced people from El Manzano, a community that has
precautionary measures from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,
returned to their homes sheltered by the Chihuahua state police. The day after
their return, just in a place where the group had been detained the day before,
a murdered man appeared, a relative of Cruz Soto's wife, who had a banner
placed on his body with a death threat directed at Cruz Soto, who is accused of
actively denouncing the situation in the area.
On several
occasions, Cruz Soto and other displaced people have met with authorities to
demand the apprehension of the organized crime group operating in the area so
that they can safely return to their communities. The last occasion was on
March 22, 2019 in the framework of the review of the precautionary measures in
El Manzano, where he loudly denounced the threats suffered and demanded
attention for their cases; this was addressed to the head of the Unit for the
Defense of Human Rights of the Government Secretariat, as well as staff of
the General Secretariat of the Government of Chihuahua and the Attorney
General's Office.
During the
unofficial visit to Chihuahua by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Internally Displaced Persons on
September 2018, Cruz participated in the meeting that she held with displaced
persons.
Given the
seriousness of the events described, which put the life of CRUZ SOTO CARAVEO at
risk, we kindly ask you to:
Write urgently to
the Under-Secretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration and to the Government of the State of Chihuahua, demanding the
immediate location of Cruz Soto, and that the necessary protection measures be
granted to his family and other members of the community who are forcibly displaced
in Chihuahua.
Olga María del Carmen Sánchez Cordero
Dávila
Secretaria de Gobernación
Secretary of Government
Twitter: @M_OlgaSCordero
E-mail: secretario@segob.gob.mx
Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez
Subsecretario de Derechos Humanos, Población y
Migración
Under-Secretary of Human Rights, Population and
Migration
Twitter: @A_Encinas_R
E-mail: ajencinas@segob.gob.mx
Javier Corral Jurado
Gobernador del Estado de Chihuahua
Governor of Chihuahua State
Twitter: @Javier_Corral
César Augusto Peniche Espejel
Fiscal General del Estado de Chihuahua
General Prosecutor of the State of Chihuahua
Twitter: @PenicheCesar
E-mail: cesar.peniche@chihuahua.gob.mx
Joel Guillermo Bustillos
Ramírez
Presidente Municipal de Guazapares
Mayor of Guazapares
E-mail: mpioguaz.1821@gmail.com
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