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On November 1, on the day of the dead, the remains of two Mazahua ethnic groups aged 12 and 14 were found in garbage bags while a man was carrying them on a wheelbarrow.
Mexico City’s head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, apologized on Saturday 14-N after criticism for criminalizing the two indigenous children murdered and dismembered last week in the capital’s center by linking them to drug trafficking.
“Yesterday I was with the relatives of Alan and Héctor, the two Mazahua children of the center. They asked me, and I do so publicly, to apologize if at any time we have criminalized their children,” Sheinbaum said during the ceremony. inauguration of a cable car station.
The mayor of the capital, of the left-wing National Regeneration Movement (Morena), party of Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, stressed that the two children “are victims”.
“We will work closely with them, firstly with the Prosecutor’s Office to do justice in this case and secondly to give all the support that their relatives, their brothers and the Mazahua community need,” he said.
On November 1, on the Day of the Dead, the remains of two Mazahua teenagers aged 12 and 14 were found in garbage bags while a man was carrying them in a wheelbarrow.
Sheinbaum then stressed that this crime “had to do with drug dealing” (small-scale drug trafficking) involving minors.
These words shocked the family and the Network for the Rights of the Child in Mexico (Redim) asked not to “revitify and violate the dignity of girls, boys and adolescents who are victims of crimes”.
Last Wednesday, just over a week after the murder of the Mazahua children, two teenagers were arrested as they tried to leave a suitcase with the remains of another 14-year-old in the center of the capital.
In light of these events that shook the capital, the government of Mexico City announced on Thursday a program called Barrio Adentro to prevent children and adolescents from falling into criminal networks.
As they explained, educational, cultural and sporting activities will be increased in the center and social agents will go from house to house to meet the needs of the approximately 6,000 minors detected.
The Mexican government has identified the operations of more than a dozen criminal organizations in the capital, at the center of which the clashes between rivals Unión Tepito and Antiunión Tepito stand out as the origin of most of the murders.
Following the war between rival gangs, Mexico broke its all-time record with more than 34,600 murders in 2019, while for 2020 a new record is estimated with around 40,000 crimes.
According to Redim, seven minors are murdered in Mexico every day and another seven disappear.
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