GUERRERO AND MIGRATION

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Guerrero State
Mexico

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Aaron Díaz
Farmer

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They came he day
of the massive displacement.


Everyone left as best as they could.

They came at dawn,
like at four in the morning,


families that were already fleeing,
who were afraid to be home.


They arrived here,
I had like three, four families.

Then some neighbors came and said:


“Let's go, they’re already here.”


More than a hundred people left
at three or four in the afternoon.

But I didn't want to leave.

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Violence forced Aaron to leave
is home in Tierra Caliente
in January 2020

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We left, it was starting to get dark.

We left in a hail of bullets.

Twice I had to crouch like this

and an old lady there, too.

I went to get her out of her house

and twice I had to push her
so the bullets wouldn't hit her.

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His case is not isolated

More than 5,100 people
left Guerrero in 2019

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Onelia Ayala
Food vendor

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There are some families that lost

relatives then, in the fighting.

And it will be very difficult
for these families to return.

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Omar Rojas Ríos
Professor

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It's not normal, it's not normal

to see a video where a dad

is asking his children, his wife:


“Lie down under the bed,

don’t get up”.

Because there was a shooting.

And you can see and hear the dad
telling his children:

“Lie down, lie down.”


And the bullets are passing overhead.

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In this situation, many people
have no option but to move
to other Mexican states

Or to seek asylum
in the United States


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Narciso Torres
Community leader

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Many people

left to seek political asylum
in the United States.

Because they had been threatened

and everyone who had been threatened
fled.

Wherever they saw them,
they were going to kill them.

That is why they say: "We better go."

Since it had already happened


that someone who had fled
to avoid problems

they kidnapped and killed him ...

They didn’t return (the bodies),

videos were taken.

They uploaded the videos to social media
for the relatives to see,


broken,... butchered.


Then the family say: “We are going
to ask for asylum in the United States,


if that's what they did with them,
we are family members, we better go. ”

Headings
These stories are repeated
in Guerrero, Michoacán,
Veracruz and Oaxaca


Most Mexicans seeking
asylum in the US
are from these states