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.

17/03/2017

2016

January 1st: The unjustly imprisoned commander of the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities – Community Police (CRAC-PC) of Olinala, Nestora Salgado, begins second hunger strike to […]
23/01/2015

2014

Mid-January: Members of the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposed to the La Parota Dam (Cecop) undertake the proceedings to form a Communal Police in the […]
16/01/2014

2013

31 January: Communal authorities from four municipalities of the Costa Chica region who had for more than three weeks taken up arms to directly confront organized […]
11/01/2013

2012

9 January: The National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH) releases a preliminary report detailing the failures of the authorities involved in the acts of December 12, […]
03/01/2012

2011

9 January: members of the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposed to the La Parota Dam (CECOP) reinstall the blockade in the community of Parotillas, to […]
03/01/2011

2010

5 January 2010: Agents of the Ministerial Investigative Police detain Rodrigo Morales Valtierra, member of the community radio Radio Ñomndaa “The voice of water,” in Xochistlahuaca. […]
04/01/2010

2009

22 January 2009: The five incarcerated members of the Indigenous Me’phaa Peoples Organization (OPIM), accused of killing Alegandro Feliciano on January 1st 2008 , file for […]
02/01/2009

2008

7 January 2008: Residents of the communities of Atoyaquillo and Pasto Real, including widows, mothers and survivors of the Aguas Blancas massacre, protest in front of […]