So it appears after 5 long months the municipalty will be up and running soon. I will post a link to the article about the problem and police escorting the new mayor to the office! I pray we do not run into this road block again when it is time to come home!
Translated article:
Colotenango. Yesterday they were reopened the doors of the local city hall and of the substation of the Civil National Police (PNC), which they remained closed from September 20, 2007 and March 15, 2003, respectively. In the diligence they been present the justice of the peace, Pedro López Gray; public prosecutors of the Public Department, representatives of the Auxiliatura Regional of the Human Rights (PDH) and of the Commission of Peace of the Congress. To the place a contingent one of the PNC and of the Army was presented, in order to prevent any argument. López Gray cited that the actions were carried out in accordance with an order of the Court of First Instance of Huehuetenango, in relation to the eviction and detention of people that guarded the municipal building. Nevertheless, in the interior of the real estate was found nobody, for which this was delivered to the Council so that comience its management with every normality. The mayor Andrés Pérez said: "This it is an advance to seek the peace for a town that has lived in conflict during the last five months, due to that a group of neighbors occupied the installations for pressure to the previous authorities to that presented their renunciation". It added that now the neighbors will be able to perform its procedures without having that to travel at the head departmental, where was transferred the administration in November of last year. "Is the beginning of a new epoch. We want that the peace reign in the town and that the most urgent services can be lent for the city hall", underlined Pérez. Juana Garcia, of the PDH, indicated that upon being resumed the service also is opened a space for the governability. "With the delivery of the building a conflict is finished and is attended to the neediest people", cited. They reinstall Police The commissioner William López chief of the Precinct 43, affirmed that the PNC took advantage of the diligence ordinate to open the common one, in order to reinstall the police substation, which was closed in the 2003, after the protests of neighbors that rejected the force of the tried Free Commerce. The substation is located to average block of the city hall and will include 18 elements. "We believe that is necessary, to contribute to the governability that had been lost in the locality", the commissioner said. The departmental governor Mariano Díaz qualified as positive the delivery of the municipal building and of the police substation.
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