Evicted Mexico City Families Will Protest on December 15
This article by Dana Estrada originally appeared in the December 4, 2025 edition of El Sol de México.
Residents evicted in August from 11 República de Cuba street, in the Historic Center of Mexico City, denounced that the court officer Elías Alejandro Cisneros González lied in the eviction proceedings record, where he used the identity of a tenant of the property who died more than five years ago to authorize the expulsion of 19 apartments and eight commercial premises.
In response to the numerous evictions that have occurred in recent months in Mexico City, the neighborhood group Cuba 11 called for those evicted from the Roma, San Rafael, Tlatelolco, Centro, Azcapotzalco, and other neighborhoods to meet on December 15 at 12:30 at the foot of the Antimonument to the 43 Disappeared Students of Ayotzinapa, located at Paseo de la Reforma and Bucareli, to march towards the Mexico City Congress, located on Donceles in the Historic Center.
Men and women who lived in the building for decades, as well as their lawyer Arturo Aparicio, had access to the file of trial 2059/2024, opened before the 54th Civil Court of Mexico City and discovered that in the report delivered by the actuary Cisneros González to the local Judicial Power he stated that Mrs. María Esther, who lived in the property for several years and who died in 2020, was the one who received the eviction order on August 27 of this year.
This incident sparked outrage among the tenants, especially her husband, Manuel Gómez, who explained that the court officer who carried out the eviction from the building also attached a copy of his deceased wife’s INE (National Electoral Institute) card to the file.
“I haven’t been able to verify if the voter ID card this person presented to the judge is the original or if it’s been altered. We don’t know how he got my wife’s name; we suspect something because one of the building’s receipts was addressed to my wife, and it kept arriving even after she had passed away,” explained Manuel Gómez.
Residents of Cuba 11 explained that the eviction trial carried out by interim judge Estela Morales Rodríguez has irregularities and that she should also be investigated for approving it with altered documentation.
On the other hand, Arturo Aparicio, the residents’ lawyer, explained that they also obtained the eviction report prepared by the Mexico City Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC). In this document, the agency claimed to have used 29 officers for the eviction; however, those affected asserted that this report is also false, as there were approximately 100 police officers who surrounded the property and adjacent streets to carry out the eviction of all the belongings of the 19 families and eight businesses.
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