The Fiestas of Santa Inés

 By Buggs for Borderlandbeat
Source: Sonora Informativo

Year after year, every January 21, the fiestas of Santa Inés are celebrated in the town of Chínipas, Chihuahua, where a parade is held as a celebration of that day. Likewise, day by day, like in this type of celebration, brings out the main leaders of the criminal cell "Los Salazar."

Civilian men on horseback with guns, heavily armed sicarios walking on the public sidewalks providing armed escort to these plaza bosses and rubbing shoulders with the police authorities who are supposed to enforce the rule of law but rather they turn their head the other away.

This is the terrifying reality that the people who live in this community face every day, a life of intimidation by "Los Salazar."

Tired of the abuses, the residents are demanding from the Chihuahua authorities to take some legal action against this impunity as well as to investigate the so-called public servants in this region who are under the command of "Los Salazar."

The first day of 2021 the same community of this town left a message in the town of Chínipas, a stretch of road known as Las Tunas, where they express how tired they are of these criminal groups. This was the message:

"WHERE THERE IS A SALAZAR, IF YOU DON'T DIE OF HUNGER YOU DIE OF GUNFIRE BUT ALIVE, THE PIGS OF CHÍNIPAS, DO NOT LEAVE YOU"

They are referring to the criminal organization "Los Salazar" and how tired they are of the abuses and intimidation through violence that these criminals carry out against the communities in the region.

In the meantime, Salomé Ramos is showing an interest in being re-elected as the mayor of Chínipas, to continue making millions of pesos in contracts with the state government that further strengthen this criminal enterprise.