The aim of this chronology is not to cover the complete history of Oaxaca, but rather to explain key elements in order to provide an understanding of recent events.

23/01/2020

2019

January 6: Community elections are held in San Dionisio del Mar a month after reports of tension within the municipality and after the suspension of the […]
17/03/2017

2016

January 10 and 11 : Agrarian authorities, communities and NGO participate in the Caravan of Civil Observation and Solidarity for Chimilapasto San Francisco de La Paz community, […]
22/01/2015

2014

January 7: The spokesperson for the Dutch pension fund PGGM, confirms that the transnational corporation Mareña Renewables plans to cancel the wind-energy megaproject it has intended to build […]
16/01/2014

2013

14 January: the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Northern Zone of the Tehuantepec Isthmus (UCIZONI) denounces the constant death-threats directed against Juan Carlos Beas Torres. […]
25/01/2013

2012

13 January: the state congress of Oaxaca unanimously approves the Law for the Defense of the Human Rights of the People of Oaxaca. 18 January: at […]
03/01/2012

2011

11 January: Alba Cruz, lawyer and human-rights defender in Oaxaca, receives an intimidating text-message to her cellular phone. The message was sent from the same number […]
03/01/2011

2010

13 January: Members of the mediation commission between the Revolutionary Popular Army (EPR) and the federal government decide to reactivate and enlarge the commission in an […]
04/01/2010

2009

10 January: Ruben Valencia Nuñez, member of Oaxacan Voices Building Autonomy and Liberty (VOCAL), part of the APPO, is the subject of an attempted assassination in […]
02/01/2009

2008

30 January: Rosalino Díaz Barrera, a campesino from San Blas Atempa is kidnapped by a group of municipal police in a patrol vehicle. The next day […]