2024
14/01/20252024
14/01/20252024
January 5: Citizens and the Mixtequilla Civil Resistance block the La Ventosa-Mixtequilla highway for two days, demanding transparency about the âPolo de Bienestarâ industrial park that the federal government plans to install in Mixtequilla.
January 8: 36 indigenous and agrarian communities of the Sierra Norte de Oaxaca brought together in the Union of Communities of the Sierra JuĂĄrez (UCOSIJ) demand that Governor SalomĂłn Jara Cruz repeal the law that seeks to privatize ejido and communal lands for the benefit of megaprojects.
January 10: The Oaxaca Congress elects Michel JuliĂĄn LĂłpez as the new head of the Oaxaca Commission for the Search for the Disappeared.
January 27: Members of the Peaceful Civil Resistance of Mixtequilla are arrested after their demonstrations against the imposition of a âDevelopment Poleâ.
January 27: A demonstration against gentrification and dispossession is held in Oaxaca City. Six activists are arrested and released 24 to 48 hours later. The protest, under the slogan âOaxaca is not a commodity,â criticized the increase in the cost of living and territorial dispossession.
January 30: David HernĂĄndez, Zapotec defender and opposition leader to the Interoceanic Corridor, is found guilty of the crime of damages. The Assembly of Indigenous Peoples of the Isthmus denounces the criminalization of its leadership against the industrial park in Puente Madera.
February 7: David HernĂĄndez Salazar is sentenced to 46 years and six months in prison, a fine and a payment for damages.
February 7: A young woman is murdered in MiahuatlĂĄn. With that, 13 cases of murders of women have been registered since the beginning of the year and 122 crimes against women in the administration of Governor SalomĂłn Jara.
February 14: Elements of the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) and the state police violently evict almost 50 retired railroad workers, who were protesting on the tracks of the interoceanic train in MatĂas Romero on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Two railroad leaders are arrested.
March 18: PalemĂłn VĂĄsquez Cajero, a teacher in section 22 of the CNTE and an activist for indigenous education, is murdered in the community of Santa Elena Comaltepec, in the municipality of Jamiltepec.
April 3: 11 Zapotec communities from the Central Valleys of Oaxaca and organized in the No to Mining Front for a Future for All achieve the outright suspension of mining concessions in their territories, affected by the âSan JosĂ©â mining project of Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM) in San JosĂ© del Progreso.
April 21: The National Network of Indigenous Women Lawyers expresses its concern about the recent designations of indigenous candidacies since it observed a âutilitarian tendency of identity through qualified self-ascription.â
May 27: The Committee for the Integral Defense of Human Rights Gobixha AC (CODIGODH) denounces the raid and robbery of its offices in the city of Oaxaca de JuĂĄrez.
June 13: After 10 years of preventive detention and a long struggle by the Mazatecas for Freedom collective and inhabitants of Eloxochitlån in Flores Magón, Alfredo Bolaños, Fernando Gavito and Francisco Durån, obtains is freed.
July 18: Lorenzo Santos Torres, a community defender from Santiago Amoltepec, his wife and daughter are ambushed, executed and burned to death en Ejutla de Crespo, in the southern highlands region of the State of Oaxaca
September 11: The Center for Human Rights and Advice to Indigenous Peoples (Cedhapi) reports that human rights defender Daniel Bautista VĂĄsquez was found dead in Villa de Etla. He had been missing since August 31, 2024 in Tlaxiaco.
September 25: Municipal and agrarian authorities as well as members of the No to Mining Front for a Future for All demand that PROFEPA carry out an expeditious and thorough investigation into the El Coyote River and sanction the mining company CuzcatlĂĄn, which, they say, is responsible for a new spill from the dam.
October 4: Mixe lawyer Sandra DomĂnguez MartĂnez and her husband disappear in the Sierra Mixe of Oaxaca. They were last seen in the community of MarĂa Lombardo, municipality of San Juan Cotzocon.
November 5: sisters Adriana and Virginia Ortiz Garcia, indigenous Triqui defenders, are shot dead in central Oaxaca de Juarez, when they were intercepted by two men on a motorcycle as they arrived at their home.