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2021 Pantelhó Mass Kidnapping
The name 2021 Pantelhó mass kidnapping refers to events that occurred on 26 July 2021, in Pantelhó, administrative seat of the municipality of Pantelhó, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, when a self-defense group called El Machete, from that municipality, arrived at the aforementioned town and took 21 inhabitants. under the argument that they (the members of El Machete) were looking for people involved in organized crime. The El Machete Self-Defense Group is made up of some 500 Tzotzils and Tzeltal people, Tzeltals Indigenous peoples of the Americas, amerindians from the town of Pantelhó. The Municipal Council of Pantelhó, chaired by Pantelhó#Municipal presidents, Pedro Cortés López, considers that the Herreras constitute a criminal band that for two decades controlled that coffee, coffee-producing municipality of the Chiapas Highlands, and they attribute to them the sale of drugs, dispossession of land and farms, and the murder of 200 people. Members of the group El Mach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pantelhó
Pantelhó is a town and one of the 125 Municipalities of Chiapas, in southern Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema .... As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 20,589, up from 16,262 as of 2005. It covers an area of 136.6 km². As of 2010, the town of Pantelhó had a population of 6,888. Other than the town of Pantelhó, the municipality had 150 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) was: Aurora Esquipulas (2,046), classified as rural. Government Municipal presidents See also * 2021 Pantelhó mass kidnapping References Municipalities of Chiapas {{Chiapas-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
