02/01/2008
6 January 2007: David Salgado Aranda, from the municipality of Tlapa, dies when struck down by a tractor while picking tomatoes in fields run by the […]
In this timeline, we do not claim to cover the entire history of Guerrero, but instead intend to give some key elements that may facilitate a better understanding of recent developments. Since the 1960s, the state of Guerrero has been characterized by high indexes of poverty, social disintegration, organized crime, corruption, repression and impunity. During this time, the state of law was constantly violated and state crimes were committed that have still not been punished. We decided to take this watershed moment of the 1960s and the so-called “Dirty War” as a starting point to this chronology. In it, we will focus on the main problems, consequences and responses by the population throughout time.
02/01/2007
19 January 2006: the Unitary Agrarian Tribunal in Acapulco, Guerrero, resolves to cancel the San Marcos Assembly that was held on August 23, 2005, because of […]
02/01/2006
6 February 2005: The PRD candidate Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo wins the election for governor of Guerrero with 55% of the vote. The PRI candidate takes 42% […]
03/01/2005
14 January 2004: municipal police officers from Zapotitlán Tablas (Montaña) torture and kill 18-year-old Sócrates Tolentino González Genaro. They take advantage of the fact that the […]
02/01/2004
13 May 2003: militants from the PRI affiliated to the organization Campesino Torch and The Revolutionary Agrarian League of the South Emiliano Zapata (LARSEZ) engage in […]
02/01/2003
16 February 2002: Valentina Rosendo Cantú, an indigenous Tlapaneca, is interrogated, threatened, beaten and raped by members of the 41st Infantry Battalion in Barranca Bejuco, Montaña […]
02/01/2002
8 January 2001: the indigenous Amuzgos who took over the Municipal Offices of Xochistlahuaca to demand that the municipal president resign are violently removed. February 2001: […]
02/01/2001
26 March 2000: soldiers from the 49th Infantry Battalion disarm members of the Community Police in Pueblo Hidalgo, in the municipality of San Luis Acatlán. 9 […]
03/02/2000
28 June 1995: the Massacre of Aguas Blancas occurs in Costa Grande. Farmers associated with the Farmers’ Organization of the Southern Sierra (OCSS) traveling to Atoyac […]
03/01/2000
1959: the teacher Genaro Vázquez Rojas founds the Guerrero Civic Association (ACG) to struggle against the low prices that North American companies are paying for copra […]
03/01/2000
Early in 1994, as a result of the armed uprising in Chiapas, the state of Guerrero is militarized: the Judicial and Federal Police install several roadblocks […]
03/01/2000
12 March 1996: Due to the constant social pressure, Rubén Figueroa Alcocer resigns as governor, halfway through his term, claiming that he “wanted to help with […]
03/01/2000
25 February 1997: two indigenous people who were apprehended in Tlacoachistlahuaca, Costa Chica are disappeared by members of the State Judicial Police. Representatives of human rights […]
03/01/2000
8 January 1998: a group of guerrillas split from the EPR to create the Revolutionary Army of Insurgent Peoples (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo Insurgente, or ERPI), […]
03/01/2000
7 February 1999: PRI candidate René Juarez Cisneros wins the gubernatorial election. 22 February 1999: 25,000 people march in Acapulco claiming that there had been electoral […]