Neighbors tied a tree and beat a Mexican mayor: “He does not keep his promises”

The mayor Oscar Ramirez Aguilar he was thinking of taking a mass bath. After all, he was preparing to inaugurate a work eagerly awaited by the inhabitants of the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, in Chiapas, in the south of the country: a water reservoir for the whole community, eager to finally have water. potable water.

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Everything was going very well in the district of La Jimba. Ramírez Aguilar was known for his campaign pledges in which he announced quality homes and a water purification project for one of southern Mexico’s most neglected areas. Until one of the neighbors notices that something hasn’t closed.

The residents of Frontera Comalapa who had approached the event noticed that the promised tank was not of quality. In addition, they denounced that it had been constructed with “an inappropriate material” for this type of work.

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According to the local portal Fourth power, neighbors confirmed that the tank was “in a deplorable state and poorly made, because part of the floor was” patched. “Leaks, they denounced, would be inevitable. The work was to supply water to 11 districts of the town , which had generated enormous expectations of the population.

People’s anger grew as they demanded an explanation. The protests escalated until someone brought a rope. The neighbors went to see the mayor, they tied him up and tied him to a nearby tree.

The mayor tried in vain to provide an explanation, but the neighbors refused to release him until he guaranteed the layout of the works and promised that they would be inaugurated, as soon as possible and in excellent condition.

The negotiations lasted two hours. The villagers only let him go after promising to “fix” the tank. And while he suffered no wounds or injuries other than a few scratches from the ropes, he had to endure the public’s wrath over fears of the possibility of a lynching.

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Finally the mayor has been released and he clarified on his Facebook account that it was a “working meeting with the residents”, as stated Fourth power.

Frontera Comalapa has been governed for six years by brothers Carlos and Óscar Ramírez Aguilar. In the elections scheduled for next June, the first of them intends to run as a candidate to succeed his brother.

However, the inhabitants denounce that the town is abandoned in terms of impact works and basic necessities.