At a press conference on April 23rd, the Fray Bartolome de Las Casas Center for Human Rights (Frayba) condemned that Judge Viridiana Montenegro Peña had “unjustly” sentenced five Tseltals from San Juan Cancuc, defenders of territory, this “for a crime they did not commit.” The five indigenous people, imprisoned in the San Cristobal prison, are

@La Jornada At a press conference on April 23rd, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) rejected the report on human rights in Mexico issued by the State Department of the United States government, stating that “they position themselves as the judges of the world.” “They are ossified in the management of their foreign policy, with

@EDUCA On April 21, the National Network of Indigenous Lawyers expressed its concern regarding the recent designations of indigenous candidates since they observed a “utilitarian tendency of identity through qualified self-ascription.” It called on the electoral authorities to implement mechanisms to eradicate the usurpation and simulation that allows “opportunistic people to occupy affirmative action for

@Parroquia de Chalchihuitan On April 20th, Tsotsil Catholics from the municipality of Chalchihuitan made a pilgrimage to the capital of this municipality to demand the closure of canteens and that nearing voting “be done in peace, without weapons or violence; that the vote be free and secret.” More than a thousand participants joined in this