Cacalchén police evict vendors from the Municipal Bazaar with tear gas
Vendors stated that the agents arrived armed with metal pipes and stones.
In Cacalchén, municipal police evict vendors who had been working in the so-called “Municipal Bazaar” for up to 20 years with tear gas, while the City Council mentioned that it is a redistribution of the commercial spaces in that place.
Cacalchén resident Pablo Noé López Urtecho stated that on Monday, August 26 in the morning, three vendors were evicted from this market, including a pizzeria.
“These businesses have been operating in this place for more than a decade and paying the renewal of their contract every three years, in order to be able to work and provide for their families,” he indicated.
“Municipal police arrived armed with pipes and stones, they hit us and threw tear gas at us, trying at all costs to get us to leave the space that we have been paying the municipality for for 20 years,” he said.
“I renew my permit every three years, the last time it was 10 thousand pesos, now the mayor Abigail Pérez is asking us for 30 thousand pesos, we told her that we are going to pay it, but she doesn’t want to, they demand that we leave the place,” he said.
This merchant from Cacalchén stated that the mayor is upset because they did not support her in the last elections and now she is taking revenge, kicking them out of their workplace, that she will deliver to other people that will pay the municipal government to work there.
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