While the year 2009 was characterized by resistance movements that developed thousands of credit card debtors against techniques "terrorists" collection of banking, in the year also configured other organizations of people being harassed by debt, in this case mortgages, which have also suffered the brunt of harassment, threats and even eviction by mortgage companies, among these associations is Tlajomulco Social Justice, where 580 families have approached in the last year.
Jorge Machado, representative of the association that emerged in November 2008, said the affected borrowers have joined fourteen different subdivisions, such as Santa Fe, Golden Valley, or Chula Vista. "The problem is not just local, it is nationwide. People who seven years ago in such subdivisions in these mini houses Infonavit of 5 by 15 meters it was paying 1,500 pesos in the course of six years are charging up to 3,900 pesos a month, having signed in UDI, and starts harassment of the offices. The poorest people is to that attack, scare them, take them out of their homes, paint and re-sell. It is a very serious problem is a social tinderbox political, "said .(...) 
explained that many borrowers try to negotiate an agreement with the mortgage, but they" require that settled all over the house "in a single display. These are "homes that cost 226 thousand pesos, even though you already paid 180 thousand, as was my case, I tell you now pay 317 thousand dollars and if not you out. Wait, how I'll give you 317 thousand dollars? I were mad because the same houses that you recover in the first coin the ends in 130 000 and if not sold, lower to 100 or 90mil pesos. " added that "those houses cost the estate, and investigated, 65 thousand dollars, however, and sold at 226 thousand, but here is what is expensive credit. Sofol offering comes in the first seven years I think you only pay interest, then you start to pay interest and principal, and the tuition is unaffordable for segments of the population who perceive few minimum wage, or who are unemployed as a result of the economic crisis.
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Jesus Estrada Cortes/Público/30-12-09
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