"Brothers and sisters in Mexico and around the world, we urgently denounce that our Indigenous peoples and communities of CIPOG-EZ are currently under direct attack by the criminal group 'Los Ardillos.' Our communities are under siege, caught in the crossfire of gun battles and drone attacks, while the narco-paramilitary group advances with total impunity under the protection of the army and the federal government."
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"We denounce that the criminal group 'Los Ardillos' is keeping the Indigenous communities of the Montaña Baja region of Guerrero under siege, including Tula, Xicotlán, Acahuehuetlán, and Alcozacán. Since May 6, this group has intensified its armed attacks through the use of drones and direct assaults against the communities that make up the CIPOG-EZ; today, it bombarded these communities for more than 8 hours. As of now, more than 800 families have been displaced and their lives are at risk, all without the slightest intervention from local, state, or federal governments."
"More than a thousand Indigenous families from the Nahua communities of Xicotlán, Tula, and Acahuetlán in Guerrero were displaced on the night of May 9 following drone attacks and shootings orchestrated by the criminal group Los Ardillos, according to a report by the Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero – Emiliano Zapata (CIPOG-EZ)."
"Right now, 'Los Ardillos' are burning down homes in Xicotlán and Tula, and the shooting continues in the CIPOG-EZ communities. This is happening with the complicity of the Mexican State, which watches the terror our communities are enduring without doing anything!"
An interview from 2021 that provides some background on the Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero - Emiliano Zapata (CIPOG-EZ), whose communities are currently being besieged and attacked by the state-backed narco-paramilitary group Los Ardillos.
https://itsgoingdown.org/indigenous-resistance-in-guerrero-an-interview-with-cipog-ez/
"The Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero – Emiliano Zapata (CIPOG-EZ) reported on Monday morning that the criminal group Los Ardillos 'is flying drones over Alcozacán and the area where displaced families are staying' following the armed attacks on May 9.
"'The army remains absent in the face of these attacks. Children, mothers, fathers, and the elderly are at grave risk,' warned the council members in an urgent statement."
https://desinformemonos.org/continuan-ataques-contra-comunidades-nahuas-del-cipog-ez/
Carlos González García, lawyer for the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) told Aristegui News that four bodies have been found in the midst of the ongoing attacks by Los Ardillos against the communities of the Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero - Emiliano Zapata (CIPOG-EZ).
Abel Barrera Hernández, director of the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center of the Mountain, stated that the criminal group known as 'Los Ardillos' is waging an offensive against Indigenous communities in Chilapa, Guerrero, with the aim of displacing residents and weakening the community police force operating in the region, amid a crisis of violence, murders, and forced displacement."
"We have now learned with alarm that the Mephaá community of San Pedro Huitzapula, in the municipality of Atlixtac, Guerrero, has been under attack by this criminal group [Los Ardillos] for the past 22 days, using high-powered weapons, drones, and bombs. This has resulted in the killing of two of its residents, the destruction of a large number of homes, and the displacement of hundreds of people to the hills."
"We call on everyone to collect and contribute what they can — be it a lot or a little — to support the resistance of the CIPOG-EZ communities."
