International News: Hundreds flee home due to cartel battles in southern Mexico

By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: The battle between drug cartels continues to affect hundreds of people in Mexico.

According to the BBC, hundreds of people have fled their homes as rival cartels fight for routes used to smuggle drugs and migrants.

An official confirmed that over 700 residents had been displaced from their communities near the Guatemala border.

The Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG) is fighting to gain power over the area from the violent and powerful Sinaloa cartel.

Both criminal organizations have been infiltrating the region because of its proximity to the border with Guatemala and important transit routes for migrants, whom they extort.

The worst-hit communities are Chicomuselo and La Concordia in Chiapas state. 

Entire families have left their homes and crossed the nearby Angostura lake by boat to escape the violence over the past days.

Local journalists said that their villages now resembled ghost towns.

 

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