07/16/2021
Source: AP News
About 44 police, detectives and members of Mexico’s National Guard are apparently being held hostage by a group of farmers in a land dispute, the Interior Secretary of the southern state of Oaxaca said Thursday.
Francisco García López said the farmers are holding the officers until the government agrees to return farmland they say belongs to them.
The officers do not appear to have been mistreated so far, and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said “they are negotiating, but they have not been taken hostage.”
Mexico Institute 