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 […]

1 January: Twenty communities in the indigenous Triqui region come together to form the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala, which they will govern under the […]

June 14: A sit-in by Section 22 of the SNTE which had occupied the historic centre of Oaxaca City since May 22 is violently repressed, leaving […]

1 January: The population of the town of San Blas expel the official authorities and their leader, Agustina Acevedo Gutiérrez, from the town council and found […]

18 March: A group of unknown assailants shoot at Governor José Murat, who is slightly injured. Expert tests indicate that the Governor of Oaxaca could in […]

25 January: The Agrarian Forum Against Repression and Para-militarism is founded in the city of Tuxtepec, with more than forty social, indigenous and independent organizations and […]

1 January: Members of the CROCUT assault 46 members of the Consejo Indígena Popular Ricardo Flores Magón (CIPO-RFM) from the communities of Santiago Yagallo, San Isidro […]

January: Monseñor Arturo Lona Reyes, Bishop of Tehuantepec and a key proponent in Mexico of liberation theology, hands in his resignation letter on reaching retirement age. […]

1 December: Twenty militants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People (FARP) burst into the town centre of Nazareno Etla, ten kilometres away from the […]

The history of the indigenous peoples of Oaxaca goes back to around 10,000 BC, with the arrival of the first nomadic groups in the Central Valleys […]

3 February 1824: Creation of the State of Oaxaca. 1858-1872: A Oaxaqueño in the Presidency of the Republic Benito Juárez, an indigenous Zapotec from Oaxaca, becomes […]