In Guerrero, Cipog-EZ denounced that their disappeared comrades were tortured and forced to incriminate themselves in a video.
After a video circulated on Monday, August 21, in which the three missing members of the Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero-Emiliano Zapata (Cipog-EZ) appear with their hands tied, without shirts, and declare themselves to be members of the criminal group Los Tlacos, their organization reported that these statements were obtained through torture and in an attempt by their comrades to save their lives.
Last Friday, Cipog-EZ denounced the disappearance of three of its members from the agricultural fields of Sinaloa: Nicolas Rodriguez Diaz, Marcelino Hernandez Tecorral and Angel Villalva Salvador, with whom they lost communication while traveling in an Urvan of public transport on the Chilpancingo-Chilapa route.
Yesterday a video circulated on social networks showing two men who identify themselves as Ángel Villalba Salvador and Nicolás Rodríguez Díaz. They are sitting on the ground, apparently with their hands tied, with their shirts off and looking at the camera that is recording them.
The first to speak is Ángel Villalba Salvador, who says he is from Zacapexco. “We don’t come from Sinaloa, we come from Rio Balsas, we are hitmen from Los Tlacos,” he says.
The statement is interrupted by Nicolás Rodríguez Díaz, who reaffirms that they did not come from Sinaloa, and that both were sent to Nuevo Balsas “by orders of the leaders of the Community Police of Rincón de Chautla, David and Bernardino Sánchez Luna, as well as the leader of Cipog-EZ, Jesús Plácido Galindo”.
Members of Cipog-EZ protest the murder of two colleagues and the disappearance of three others.
On the morning of August 22, the Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero-Emiliano Zapata, through a communiqué, stated that the statements of their disappeared comrades were obtained after being tortured by members of the criminal group Los Ardillos.
The Cipog-EZ warned that in the video circulating on social networks their comrades Ángel and Nicolás were forced to confess to being “hired killers”.