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PUEBLA (APRO) – Residents of the municipality of Tlaculotepec have blocked the 168th kilometer of the Mexico-Tuxpan highway for more than 24 hours, demanding the annulment of Sunday’s vote in the municipal council aimed at keeping in the Guzman family, believed to be a Caxiquil group in the small town in the northern Sierra de Puebla.
Residents held signs and closed all vehicle traffic from 11 a.m. Tuesday until 12 p.m. Wednesday, when they reached an agreement with state government representatives to reopen only the lanes to Mexico City.
They appointed a committee to set up a dialogue table in the capital to expose what they claimed were irregularities recorded during the campaign.
Protesters warned that the alleged victory of Alejandro Josue Guzmán García, of the 4T coalition party PVEM, represented the continuation of the family’s rule in the emirate of Tlaculotepec, which has presided over the municipality in five governments.
Marcial Guzmán García served as councilman of the city from 1999 to 2002, then his brother Alejandro Guzmán García held the same position from 2005 to 2008 and from 2014 to 2018; from that year he was succeeded by his son Oswaldo Guzmán Sánchez, who has served two terms as president and now leaves the position again to his father Alejandro.
It is worth noting that the Guzmán family has been active in the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) until this year, when the local card-carrying councillor, current state education secretary Jorge Estefan Chidiac, incorporated this political group into the so-called 4T, so that the current mayor, the father of the Guzmán family, was nominated by PVEM.
“… our indigenous peoples do not recognize the same results because they do not reflect the will of our people, therefore we ask that the results be declared null and void and that, as they demand, new elections be held, we ask the residents to organize them, the National Electoral Institute (INE),” they said in a statement.
They also demanded that the federal government honor new elections and that the National Guard, Mexican Army and Navy guarantee the security of the city.
Protesters are demanding an investigation into possible electoral crimes committed during Election Day, such as buying votes through the distribution of groceries, solar water heaters and construction materials.
“Finally, a federal audit will be conducted against City President Oswaldo Josue Guzmán Sánchez and his predecessors to find out where the money of the people of Tlaculotepec has gone and which is not reflected in works of public interest,” they claimed.
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