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Lake Chapala: foreign residents, tired of the spoils
MENDEZ ALBERTO OSORIO
APRIL 26, 2012 · 1 comment
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Chapala. Complaints accumulated.
Photo: Rafael River
Recently organized crime has hit in the colony of foreign country's largest, seated on the shores of Lake Chapala. Taking advantage of many of them appreciate the peace more than anything and do not speak Spanish well, a group of squatters and lawyers are stripped of their property to these peaceful residents, with the impassive and sometimes with the cooperation of officials and employees of the Judiciary.

GUADALAJARA, Jal. (Process Jalisco.) - The largest foreign community in the country, headquartered in Lake Chapala, lives beset by insecurity, particularly for the theft of property and land.
Some warn thousands of residents of foreign origin could leave the state, dissatisfied by the increase in crime, the lukewarm performance of the authorities and the weakness of institutions Jalisco has disrupted the tranquility enjoyed for decades on the banks of Lake Chapala.
Paul East Race, lawyer and doctor of Indian origin-British, is said concerned by the breakdown of the quality of life that once built their neighbors, whom he calls "despatriados" both in Chapala as Jocotepec and Poncitlán.
According to the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, only its citizens living in Chapala are over 8 thousand. They are joined by Canadian, Italian, Dutch, Germans and citizens of other nations.
"It would be very sad that one day the foreigners who have chosen to Mexico and Jalisco to spend his last years of life decide to undertake the removal of these lands. I can not imagine a convoy of Canadian gringos or due to the Guadalajara airport and announce that they're going, "he says in fluent Spanish, with a corresponding emphasis East Race.
The foreign resident, which for decades provided humanitarian assistance to marginalized people in other countries, warns that the functioning of the institutions has been relaxed, which can have dire consequences.
Fears that this situation is just the beginning. The trouble is that most "despatriados" is very susceptible to insecurity, since most come from countries with strong institutions and capable of submitting to the crime adhering to the legal framework, also including many retirees whose only desire to live in peace. "Many do not speak Spanish and have serious difficulties in establishing a trial of a civil or criminal" and in order not to go through the bureaucratic martyrdom refuse to institute legal proceedings.
Chapala explains that foreigners are at risk of being attacked by criminals and children run by those "professionals" who have corruption of institutions to "act with impunity."
And alluding to the famous novel by English writer Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist This is in Mexico! You complaints to offenders for various crimes, but nothing happens and actually going against a system that handle very powerful mobsters and people using the judiciary or the public prosecutor in his favor. "
Notes that the authorities "did not want to understand that we have many decades living in the banks of the lagoon, that we already have some Mexican children and others seek Mexican citizenship because they live fully identified with this part of the world. We are not strangers and perhaps not worth the full extent of the contribution we make to the support of several municipalities in the economic, social and cultural development. We are people of good we do our best and still believe in the future of this country, but as we can go. "
Since last December Process Jalisco reported increased complaints of foreign residents by insecurity. Many of them are not surprised insecurity, but the corruption that prevents effectively fight this social scourge.
What renewed protests by immigrants in Chapala was the murder of Stephen Christopher Kahr, a native of New York, who was gunned down outside his home in Ajijic on 29 November, in an apparent robbery attempt.
More than 200 foreigners protested this crime against the municipal president of Chapala (Jalisco Process 371). They demanded more security, but the results so far are unsatisfactory, says East Race.
Dispossession of property

Among the immigrants living in Lake Chapala is Green Berets U.S. Army retired, filmmakers, retired college professors, artists who had their glory on Broadway and federal agents, who seem equally helpless before anyone criminals, lawyers and seudolitigantes shock troops who head to invade, steal properties in hours and tricks defend the spoils.
On Thursday 5, Daniel Maurice Russell, a U.S. citizen seniors, recovered by the courts two lots in the subdivision Rancho del Oro, less than nine kilometers from the municipal seat of Chapala, near the town of Ajijic. The land, valued at over one million 500 thousand dollars were illegally occupied by individuals who, being defeated in court, threatened to kill Russel and tried to intimidate her attorney, Alma Chavez Tentori.
In an interview, the U.S. reports that the September 10, 2008, shortly before 11 am, a group of paratroopers led by Alfonso assumptions Ceja Chavez, a seller of ornamental plants, invaded their property in the Amazon and streets Rio Madeira of that division:
"That man (Alfonso Ceja) entered my land, lay the wire mesh and began to put bricks, but without any rights. He opened the back door, on the Rio Madeira, joined with several children and settled on the farm. "
He says that after seeing personally that action was to claim his actions but the subject threatened him with a machete and told him to leave that place. Faced with the danger, thought Russell resigned to losing their land totaling over 900 square meters, but acquaintances convinced him to report the theft. He did: in 2009 filed a lawsuit against Ceja Chavez and Ronald Siebert who originated the file 268/2009, based in the Second Civil Court.
After three years of litigation and nearly four since their properties were taken from him two weeks ago the court ruled on Thursday 5 a resolution that will return their properties to Russell. However, it is only a chapter of litigation.
The settler, who for decades was a federal agent of the United States, recounts that, based on the decision of the court obtained a court order for "parachute" take out all his belongings from the premises, including a mobile home, and that after the eviction of marijuana plants were discovered. However, after two girls were presented there (possible daughter of Alfonso Ceja said) and an old woman to threaten:
"Without asking any permission came and put-score-Russel, from inside the field yelling at us that we backed off, we were not one there. I was accompanied by my lawyer, the lawyer Alma Chavez Tentori, and one of the girls shouted that the property belonged to his daddy Siebert and that he would send us to hell, they were going to call your lawyer Armida de la Parra Chavez to run us. "
Indeed, minutes later the home of a woman in an eviction Hummer dark blue, gray accompanied by a subject that lawyer said. They "again insulted us and threatened the lawyer Alma Chavez, even though the place stood a patrol of the town of Chapala." The woman turned out to be the aforementioned licensed Armida de la Parra.
The gray-haired man, meanwhile, said that "Mrs. Alma was not a lawyer, he shouted that she had no lawyer. Required to give him the order of the court and challenged us to film what you notify had taken action to remove people who had occupied the land ... even wanted to attack us, but one of the municipal police reinforcements requested and got a women police patrol to prevent violence, then the attacks were directed against the representatives of order. "
Given the aggressiveness of those who claimed to be the stripped, the police arrested them and took them to the Public Security Directorate Chapala. But there remained only a few hours, lower charges, the lawyer says Alma Chavez: "The police said that the retention of those people was aggressive stance, but really what we were claiming was a new attempt to plunder by the same parachute, which is not based on any act. "
Russell's lawyer says that's why they had to raise another complaint, that in criminal matters, by the death threats that made them the representatives of Ceja and his associates.
According to Chavez graduated in the same area of ​​Rancho de Oro there are other complaints against the same group of squatters have taken over for other areas and have simulated purchases. Russell explains that the sovereign has no complaints judicial branch, but admits that she did have commented that there are victims of other cases.
Recognized

This weekly consulted other foreign residents of Rancho de Oro fractionation and found most affected by the same group of squatters. Agree to enter the land with violence and injunctions obtained almost immediately supplanted by scripture, then threatens those who dare to report them so that they desist from the charges.
Acosta's attorney Nieves, who would have had to face to Armida de la Parra in cases similar to Russell, says that this trial has against dozens of criminal and civil complaints, but its influence is recognized in the Supreme Court .
He claims that she and others took over several properties in the south west of the metropolitan area, and the College of Paediatricians of Jalisco filed several lawsuits against them because they invaded a lot of over 11 thousand square meters in South Mariano Otero and Peripheral in Guadalajara. Acosta said that some of these fraudulent businesses are registered in the Notary 60, headed by Conrado Ponce Cevallos.
Explains that the case of Maurice Russell follows the pattern criminal group Armida de la Parra: located in the field, they get by force, carry out a topographical survey, introduce machinery to clean the premises and immediately fake a trading business where engages others to conclude with the stripping.
As part of the claim of Pediatrics College of Jalisco, on March 30, 2009 various media reported that Armida de la Parra is responsible for a series of offal in Ajijic, Chapala, Zapopan, Guadalajara and other municipalities. It was mentioned that the trial used for this purpose a group of invaders known as The Güizapoles, but also "has purchased" for judges, clerks and policemen.